Research Lookup

by LeonChaoX

Research Lookup is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by LeonChaoX in qinyan-academic-skills.

814 stars68 forkson LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/07/20

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Install Research Lookup

Copy Research Lookup into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit 'https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills/tree/main/skills/01-%E8%AE%BA%E6%96%87%E6%A3%80%E7%B4%A2%E4%B8%8E%E6%96%87%E7%8C%AE%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86/research-lookup' ~/.claude/skills/research-lookup

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/01-论文检索与文献管理/research-lookup/SKILL.md in LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/research-lookup
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Research Lookup does

Research Lookup finds current research, papers, and supporting evidence by routing queries to Parallel Chat API or Perplexity search. Use it to verify scientific claims, gather citations, and collect technical or market research.

Research Lookup is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Research Lookup comes from a repository tagged academic, ai-assistant, arxiv, claude-code and google-scholar.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Research Information Lookup

Overview

This skill provides real-time research information lookup with intelligent backend routing:

Parallel Chat API (core model): Default backend for all general research queries. Provides comprehensive, multi-source research reports with inline citations via the OpenAI-compatible Chat API at https://api.parallel.ai.
Perplexity sonar-pro-search (via OpenRouter): Used only for academic-specific paper searches where scholarly database access is critical.

The skill automatically detects query type and routes to the optimal backend.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Research Lookup

What else does LeonChaoX publish alongside Research Lookup?
Research Lookup is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BGPT Paper Search, Citation Management and Generate Image. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Research Lookup does, and is maintained by LeonChaoX in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills page.
How does Research Lookup compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Research Lookup ranks #1577 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Research Lookup against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.