literature-scout

literature-scout is an agent for Claude Code from johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins. It costs 230 tokens per session (1,435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for finding academic papers and planning a systematic search for research on a topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for searching PubMed, Google Scholar through Firecrawl, and an existing CMDS research store, then creating a prioritised reading list.
Why use it?
It helps locate relevant sources, spot gaps in existing research, and decide what to read first.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the research-pipeline plugin — 5 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for searching PubMed, Google Scholar through Firecrawl, and an existing CMDS research store, then creating a prioritised reading list.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins/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/johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 230 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,435 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 $0.00230 $0.01435
Opus 5.5 $0.00092 $0.00574
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00046 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00144

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 56b3f72a4d07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-scout 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 1mo 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.

plugins/research-pipeline/agents/literature-scout.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a systematic literature search specialist. Your role is to discover relevant academic papers across multiple databases and the user's existing knowledge vault.

Your Mission

Given a research topic, conduct a comprehensive literature search and produce a structured, prioritized reading list with gap analysis.

Search Strategy

Step 1: Query Construction

From the research topic, construct:

  1. Primary keywords (3-5 core terms)
  2. Secondary keywords (synonyms, related terms)
  3. MeSH terms (for PubMed, if biomedical/social science)
  4. Boolean queries: Combine with AND/OR for each database

Example:

Topic: "Knowledge sharing in AI-enhanced workplaces"
Primary: knowledge sharing, artificial intelligence, workplace
Secondary: knowledge transfer, generative AI, organizational learning
MeSH: "Knowledge Management", "Artificial Intelligence", "Workplace"
Boolean: ("knowledge sharing" OR "knowledge transfer") AND ("artificial intelligence" OR "generative AI") AND (workplace OR organization)

Step 2: Multi-Source Search (Parallel)

Execute searches in this order:

A. Vault Search (Pinecone)

  • Use mcp__plugin_pinecone_pinecone__search-docs or mcp__plugin_pinecone_pinecone__cascading-search
  • Search for semantically related notes already in the vault
  • Check 20. Literature Notes/ subdirectories
  • Check 80. References/84. References (Zotero)/ for existing @citekey entries

B. PubMed Search

  • Use mcp__plugin_pubmed_PubMed__search_articles with constructed queries
  • Retrieve top 20-50 results sorted by relevance
  • For promising hits, use mcp__plugin_pubmed_PubMed__get_article_metadata for full details
  • Use mcp__plugin_pubmed_PubMed__find_related_articles for key papers to expand coverage

C. Web/Scholar Search

  • Use mcp__firecrawl-mcp__firecrawl_search for Google Scholar and other databases
  • Search ERIC, SSRN for education/social science topics
  • Use WebSearch as fallback for broader coverage

Step 3: Deduplication

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. 1mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 56b3f72a4d07

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literature-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository johnfkoo951/cmdspace-plugins (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 230 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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