research-lookup SKILL.md skillA
research-lookup from k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-lookup@v1.7Pins v1.7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
- Path
skills/research-lookup/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v1.7, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 17,237 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56,497
- License
- MIT
Compiles current scholarly evidence for a scientific manuscript or research brief 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 retrieval, Parallel Research for explicitly deep/exhaustive work, optional explicit Parallel Chat, and optional Perplexity only when requested or allowed as a failure fallback.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Research Lookup Compile the external evidence needed to plan and write a high-quality scientific manuscript. The default academic workflow targets **60 verified, unique references** and produces a manuscript-ready research packet rather than a loose list of links. Here `verified_references` counts successful retrieval of nonempty Extract excerpts, excluding flagged retractions. It does not establish bibliographic identity, claim support, peer review, or absence of corrections; those require source review. ## Scope and boundaries Use this skill when the user explicitly wants: - literature and background research for a manuscript - many high-quality academic references - evidence supporting or contradicting a scientific claim - a structured evidence matrix or claim-to-source map - current studies, methods precedent, mechanisms, limitations, or research gaps Do not activate it for casual factual questions that do not need research, private or unpublished material, or a claim that can be answered from user-provided files. Query text is sent to Parallel. It is sent to OpenRouter only when Perplexity is explicitly selected or the user enables that fallback. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-lookup@sha256:8da1618350bf3434The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_h3373sxljs5ulcda)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 11, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 19 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.7 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 17,237 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.6 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 14,961 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.5 | 2026-09-02 | 1e5eeff | 14,506 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-07-26 | b085e11 | 13,548 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260714.fc0b9f6 | 2026-07-14 | fc0b9f6 | 13,550 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.afa84b4 | 2026-07-04 | afa84b4 | 14,109 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260611.c1150bd | 2026-06-11 | c1150bd | 23,915 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (17237 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 56,497 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h3373sxljs5ulcda GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/research-lookup GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8da1618350bf3434e4569a180a15b7241a50118ee9b79bccc514fa1bf3b4a102
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