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# research-lookup — AI agent skill for literature review

> Compile current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief.

# `research-lookup`

> 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.

**Category:** [literature-review](/skills#literature-review) · **License:** MIT · **Version:** 1.5

## Install

```bash theme={null}
npx research-agent-skills install research-lookup
npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --skill research-lookup
```

## 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.

## Full playbook

Read [SKILL.md](https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/blob/main/skills/research-lookup/SKILL.md) for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.