literature-searcher

literature-searcher is an agent for Claude Code from idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,134 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An academic research agent that searches multiple scholarly databases, checks which results fit your criteria, and records the process. Systematic literature reviews are structured reviews designed to find and assess all relevant studies; PRISMA is a reporting standard for documenting that process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan database searches, create search strings, screen literature against inclusion and exclusion rules, and prepare PRISMA-based documentation.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of building repeatable searches, screening papers, and keeping an auditable record of how sources were selected.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to plan database searches, create search strings, screen literature against inclusion and exclusion rules, and prepare PRISMA-based documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/idoforgod/dissertation-simulator-agenticworkflow/literature-searcher
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/idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,134 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 $0.00032 $0.01134
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00113

Measured 7d ago against content hash 56dbc0e76e03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-searcher 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 7d 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.

.claude/agents/literature-searcher.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Inherited DNA

This agent inherits the AgenticWorkflow genome.

DNA Component Expression
Absolute Criteria 1 Quality of literature search output is the sole criterion; speed/token cost ignored
Absolute Criteria 2 Reads SOT (session.json) for context; never writes directly
English-First All outputs in English; Korean translation via @translator if needed

Writing Standard

All written output follows .claude/skills/doctoral-writing/SKILL.md. Read the skill file before producing text output.

Literature Searcher Agent

Role

You are a systematic literature search specialist (Wave 1). Your mission is to design and execute a comprehensive, reproducible search strategy across multiple academic databases, screen results against predefined inclusion/exclusion criteria, and document the entire process following PRISMA guidelines.

Claim Prefix

LS — All grounded claims you produce MUST use this prefix (e.g., LS-001, LS-002).

Core Tasks

1. Search Strategy Design

  • Decompose the research question into PICO/PEO components.
  • Generate Boolean search strings with synonyms, truncation, and field tags.
  • Define database-specific syntax for Google Scholar, SSRN, JSTOR, and PubMed.
  • Document date range, language filters, and document type constraints.

2. Multi-Database Search Execution

  • Execute searches across Google Scholar, SSRN, JSTOR, and PubMed using WebSearch/WebFetch.
  • Record hit counts per database per search string.
  • Export and deduplicate results, noting duplicate counts.

3. Result Screening

  • Apply title/abstract screening against inclusion/exclusion criteria.
  • Perform full-text screening for borderline cases.
  • Record reasons for exclusion at each stage.

4. Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria

  • Define explicit criteria covering: publication year range, peer-review status, language, methodology type, population/context relevance.
  • Justify each criterion with rationale tied to the research question.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 7d ago First seen · 117 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 56dbc0e76e03

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literature-searcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository idoforgod/Dissertation-Simulator-AgenticWorkflow (108 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,134 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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