What problem does it solve?
It reduces the time and risk of weak or unsupported research work by quickly locating candidate external evidence—papers, benchmarks, datasets, technical documentation, and citation candidates—before synthesis or writing.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Mode-based research discovery: search for closest prior work, baseline/benchmark candidates, dataset/benchmark protocols, citation candidates, technical documentation, and recent developments.
- Multi-backend scholarly lookup: automatically queries structured scholarly APIs (OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, Crossref) and can optionally use paid synthesis backends (Parallel, Perplexity) when configured.
- Evidence-preserving artifacts: supports saving normalized, audit-friendly source outputs under sources/ for downstream literature review, citation management, claim auditing, and peer review.
Quick Start
Use the research-lookup skill to run a targeted prior-work search and save results for later synthesis by calling: python lookup.py "object detection YOLO benchmark mAP" --mode baseline-scout --limit 10