What problem does it solve? Finding current, well-cited research information for scientific writing requires manual searching across multiple databases and sources, which is slow and hard to reproduce. This Skill performs real-time research lookups with automatic backend routing and saves every result with full citations for reproducibility. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Intelligent Backend Routing: Automatically routes general research queries to the Parallel Chat API (core model) and academic paper searches to Perplexity sonar-pro-search via OpenRouter, with manual override via --force-backend. - Citation-Preserving Output: Extracts sources, DOIs, and academic URLs from responses and mandates saving all results to a sources/ folder in text or JSON format. - Paper Quality Prioritization: Ranks papers by citation count, venue tier (Nature, Science, NeurIPS, etc.), and author reputation for literature reviews. - Use Case: While drafting a paper introduction, ask for recent advances in CRISPR gene editing; the Skill returns a cited research report saved to sources/research_crispr.md for later reference. ## Quick Start Set the PARALLEL_API_KEY and OPENROUTER_API_KEY environment variables, then ask the assistant to research recent advances in your topic and save the results to the sources folder.
