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research-lookup

Category: literature-review · License: MIT · Version: 1.5 · Includes scripts Tags: literature search, scholarly evidence, research briefs, references

When to use it

Compile current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief. Use when the user explicitly asks to gather literature, references, background evidence, competing findings, or a manuscript research packet. Uses Parallel Search by default, Parallel Extract for source verification, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback.

Example requests

Ask your agent in plain language, for example:
  • “Need ~60 solid references on CRISPR base editing off-target effects for my review intro. Can you pull them together?”
  • “I’m drafting a Nature Communications paper on gut microbiome alterations in Parkinson’s disease (human cohort, 16S sequencing, n=212 cases vs 198 controls, outcome: alpha diversity and Prevotella abundance). My context is in study_context.json. Please gather the recent primary studies, meta-analyses, and any null or contradictory findings, and give me a claim-to-source map for the Introduction and Discussion.”
  • “I’m writing up a grant-style background on whether intermittent fasting improves insulin sensitivity in adults. I want to know where the evidence agrees, where it conflicts, and what the open gaps are, with real citations I can drop into my bibliography.”

Install

In Claude Code you can also add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills and install the whole literature-review category with /plugin install literature-review@research-agent-skills.

Full playbook

Read SKILL.md for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.
Last modified on October 19, 2026