External AI Services

This documentation system uses three external AI services for research and reference gathering. These complement the primary Claude Code workflow by providing specialized capabilities.

Service Overview

Service Comparison

Service	Best For	Output Type	Cost
NotebookLM	Synthesizing your own sources	Structured summaries	Free
Perplexity	Current statistics & trends	Markdown with sources	Free/Pro
Scopus AI	Academic paper citations	BibTeX entries	Subscription

NotebookLM

Google NotebookLM excels at synthesizing information from your uploaded documents.

Capabilities

• Cross-referencing multiple documents
• Extracting specific information
• Creating structured summaries
• Identifying themes and gaps

Workflow

Best Practices

Upload Strategy

Upload all related sources into a single NotebookLM notebook for best cross-referencing.

Recommended uploads:
├── thesis1.pdf
├── thesis2.pdf
├── related-paper.pdf
└── industry-report.pdf

View NotebookLM Prompts →

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Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI provides real-time web search with AI synthesis, perfect for current statistics and market data.

Capabilities

• Current statistics (2024-2025)
• Market data and trends
• Recent incidents and news
• Regulatory updates

Workflow

Best Practices

Time-Sensitive Queries

Always specify the year range (2024-2025) in your prompts for current data.

Good: "Ransomware statistics 2024-2025"
Bad: "Ransomware statistics"

View Perplexity Prompts →

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Scopus AI

Elsevier's Scopus AI searches peer-reviewed academic literature and provides proper BibTeX citations.

Capabilities

• Peer-reviewed paper search
• BibTeX citation export
• Research surveys and meta-analyses
• High impact factor journal filtering

Workflow

Best Practices

Character Limit

Scopus AI has a 500 character limit per prompt. Use multiple focused queries.

Query 1: "LLM security papers 2023-2025"
Query 2: "Adversarial ML surveys 2022-2025"
Query 3: "AI risk framework research"

View Scopus AI Prompts →

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Integration Pattern

Research Phase Workflow

File Organization

research-prompts/
├── notebooklm.md      # NotebookLM prompt template
├── perplexity.md      # Perplexity prompt template
├── scopus.md          # Scopus AI prompt templates
└── results/           # Collected research outputs
    ├── notebooklm.md  # NotebookLM output
    ├── perplexity.md  # Perplexity output
    └── scopus.md      # Scopus papers + BibTeX

Processing Results

After collecting external research:

# Results are in research-prompts/results/

# Claude Code can now use them:
claude "Integrate research results into chapter planning"

# Extract BibTeX to bibliography
cat research-prompts/results/scopus.md | grep -A20 "@article" >> latex/bibliography.bib

Usage Summary

When to Use	Service	Output Location
Synthesize your own PDFs	NotebookLM	results/notebooklm.md
Get current statistics	Perplexity	results/perplexity.md
Find academic papers	Scopus AI	results/scopus.md

Next Steps

• NotebookLM Prompts - Source synthesis prompts
• Perplexity Prompts - Research prompts
• Scopus AI Prompts - Academic search queries
• Complete Workflow - Full process documentation