alterlab-perplexity
Installation
SKILL.md
Perplexity Search
Run AI web searches using Perplexity Sonar models through LiteLLM and OpenRouter. Perplexity returns real-time, web-grounded answers with source citations — ideal for current information, recent literature, and facts beyond the model's training cutoff. One OpenRouter key covers all models; no separate Perplexity account needed.
When to Use This Skill
Use for: current developments, latest publications, citation-grounded answers, verifying a claim against current sources, or anything past the training cutoff.
Skip for: arithmetic/logic, code execution, or facts well within training data (answer directly).
Does NOT Trigger
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
Unsure which search backend fits; want automatic routing and results saved to sources/ |
alterlab-research-lookup |
| General web, market, or technical research via Parallel, or extracting a known URL | alterlab-parallel-web |
| Per-paper structured experimental data (sample sizes, effect sizes, quality scores) | alterlab-bgpt-search |
| Reproducible biomedical database search by MeSH terms or PMIDs | alterlab-pubmed |