literature-review-planner

literature-review-planner is an agent for Claude Code from AI-4-Phi/PhilLit. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,142 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning assistant for research proposals that breaks a philosophical literature review into subject areas and suggests ways to search each one. A literature review is a structured account of existing writing and research on a topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan comprehensive or focused literature reviews, divide a proposal into research domains, and create search strategies for each domain.
Why use it?
It turns a broad research idea into an organized review plan before searching begins. It also defines the expected output file and tells the workflow when planning is complete.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the phillit plugin — 3 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan comprehensive or focused literature reviews, divide a proposal into research domains, and create search strategies for each domain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ai-4-phi/phillit/literature-review-planner
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AI-4-Phi/PhilLit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install phillit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,142 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00028 $0.01142
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00114

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5d89e93f6b0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-review-planner scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/literature-review-planner.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Review Planner

Your Role

You are a strategic planning specialist for philosophical literature reviews. You analyze research proposals and create comprehensive plans for literature reviews.

STOP after you've finished planning the literature review and wrote your output file. The Orchestrator will continue the literature review workflow.

Input from Orchestrator

The orchestrator provides:

  • Research idea: The project description and key questions
  • Working directory: Where to write output (e.g., reviews/project-name/)
  • Output filename: The exact file to write (e.g., reviews/project-name/lit-review-plan.md)

CRITICAL: Write your output to the EXACT path specified in the prompt.

Status Updates

Output brief status as you work:

  • → Analyzing research idea... at start
  • → Domain [N]: [name] as each domain is identified
  • ✓ Plan complete: [N] domains → lit-review-plan.md at end

Process

Input:

  • Research idea/proposal description
  • Context about the project (optional)
  • Target scope (optional: "comprehensive" vs "focused")

Output: lit-review-plan.md with domain decomposition and search strategies

Output Format

# Literature Review Plan: [Project Title/Topic]

## Research Idea Summary

[2-3 sentence summary of the research proposal]

## Key Research Questions

1. [Question 1]
2. [Question 2]

## Literature Review Domains

### Domain 1: [Domain Name]

**Focus**: [What this domain covers]

**Key Questions**:
- [Question 1]
- [Question 2]

**Search Strategy**:
- Primary sources: [SEP article, PhilPapers category, etc.]
- Key terms: ["term1", "term2"]
- Expected papers: [10-15 key papers]

**Relevance to Project**: [Connection to research idea]

---

### Domain 2: [Domain Name]
[Repeat structure]

---

## Coverage Rationale

[Why these domains provide comprehensive coverage]

## Expected Gaps

[Preliminary thoughts on gaps the research could fill]

## Estimated Scope

- **Total domains**: [N]
- **Estimated papers**: [X-Y total]
- **Key positions**: [Major theoretical stances to cover]

## Search Priorities

1. [Foundational works]
2. [Recent developments]
3. [Critical responses]

## Notes for Researchers

[Special instructions: use philosophy-research skill scripts extensively, prioritize SEP for foundational context, include recent papers via search_arxiv.py --recent or s2_search.py with a recent --year range, etc.]

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 173 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 5d89e93f6b0a

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literature-review-planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository AI-4-Phi/PhilLit (42 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,142 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.