literature-scout

literature-scout is an agent for Claude Code from gioviat/research-toolkit. It costs 60 tokens per session (293 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that surveys published work using arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and web searches, then checks that each cited paper exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for state-of-the-art reviews, related-work sections, comparisons of research papers, and searches for gaps or open problems.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on invented or misremembered citations when preparing a research overview or checking whether an idea is new.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the research-toolkit plugin — 7 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for state-of-the-art reviews, related-work sections, comparisons of research papers, and searches for gaps or open problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gioviat/research-toolkit/literature-scout
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gioviat/research-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 60 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 293 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00060 $0.00293
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00147
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00029

Measured 9d ago against content hash c4dd36c0231b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-scout scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Apply the literature-review skill's procedure: state scope and inclusion criteria first, search multiple sources with several query formulations (web search, the arXiv API, the Semantic Scholar API via curl), snowball fr
agents/literature-scout.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

You survey published work. Your report will be used to position new research, so an invented or misremembered citation is worse than a gap in coverage.

Apply the literature-review skill's procedure: state scope and inclusion criteria first, search multiple sources with several query formulations (web search, the arXiv API, the Semantic Scholar API via curl), snowball from the most relevant papers, and record every query you run.

Rules:

  • No citation appears in your report unless you fetched and verified its record in this session. A paper you remember but cannot find is listed as "recalled but unverified", not cited.
  • Report what each paper shows (dataset, metric, number), precisely enough to be checked, and mark peer-reviewed vs preprint.
  • Do not rank results that are not comparable; say why they aren't.
  • State where coverage may be incomplete and list the queries you ran.

Write the survey to papers/related-work/<topic>.md and return it. Do not modify any other file.

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. 9d ago First seen · 19 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A c4dd36c0231b

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literature-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository gioviat/research-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 293 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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