perplexity-search
Installation
SKILL.md
When to Use This vs Academic Skills
| Need | Use |
|---|---|
| Structured paper metadata (citations, abstracts, code repos) | arxiv-search, semantic-scholar-search, hf-papers-search |
| What's current SOTA — what replaced older methods | perplexity-search --sota |
| What happened in the last N days | perplexity-search --recent |
| Practitioner adoption, blog posts, framework releases | perplexity-search |
| Whether a 2022 paper is still relevant or superseded | perplexity-search --sota |
Key insight: Citation count measures influence, not currency. A paper with 5000 citations from 2022 may be foundational but no longer SOTA. Perplexity provides the web-grounded context to distinguish "seminal" from "current best".
Setup
Requires OPENROUTER_API_KEY environment variable. Get one at https://openrouter.ai/keys (pay-as-you-go, ~$0.002-0.005 per query with sonar-pro).
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY='sk-or-v1-...'