ai-frontier

Web-grounded SOTA discovery using Perplexity Sonar models via OpenRouter. Use when academic APIs return foundational papers but you need to know what's CURRENT — what has superseded older methods, what practitioners actually use today, and what was released in the last weeks/months.

AI frontier plugin — gives Claude and agents access to latest scientific research, SOTA discovery, and architecture evaluation. Use when needing SOTA methods, research consensus, implementation guidance, or evaluating whether a codebase uses optimal patterns and architectures.

Search arXiv for latest AI/ML preprints. Use when Claude needs bleeding-edge research not yet in peer-reviewed journals — newest methods, architectures, training techniques, benchmarks.

Search Hugging Face Papers for AI/ML research with AI-generated summaries, keywords, community upvotes, and trending papers. Use when Claude needs community-curated research, AI-generated paper summaries, or trending ML papers.

Search Semantic Scholar for papers with rich metadata — citation counts, AI-generated TLDRs, influence scores, citation graphs. Use for finding established research, tracing citation chains, understanding paper impact and field structure.