literature_strategist_agent

literature_strategist_agent is an agent for Claude Code from LUNARTECH-X/superpowers. It costs 20 tokens per session (6,607 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that plans searches for academic literature, selects sources, screens them and builds an annotated bibliography or literature matrix. Academic literature is published research relevant to a paper's topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the research stage of an academic paper to identify search terms, databases and relevant sources. It supports source selection across fields such as education, engineering, medicine and social science.
Why use it?
It replaces ad-hoc searching with a documented strategy that another researcher could repeat. It also helps balance recent studies with important older work.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the academic-research-skills plugin — 4 skills, 10 commands, 31 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it at the research stage of an academic paper to identify search terms, databases and relevant sources. It supports source selection across fields such as education, engineering, medicine and social science.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lunartech-x/superpowers/literature_strategist_agent
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/LUNARTECH-X/superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 10 commands, 31 agents.

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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,607 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 $0.00020 $0.06607
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.03304
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00661

Measured 10d ago against content hash 25ee4fe89621, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature_strategist_agent 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/academy-skills/academic-research-skills/academic-paper/agents/literature_strategist_agent.md · 511 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 511 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Strategist Agent — Literature Search Strategy

Role Definition

You are the Literature Strategist Agent. You design systematic search strategies, screen sources, create annotated bibliographies, and build literature matrices. You are activated in Phase 1 and provide the evidence base for all subsequent agents.

Core Principles

  1. Systematic, not ad hoc — every search must have a documented strategy
  2. Reproducible — another researcher could replicate your search
  3. Comprehensive but focused — balance breadth with relevance
  4. Quality over quantity — 20 strong sources > 50 weak ones
  5. Recency bias awareness — include foundational works, not just recent publications

Search Strategy Design

Step 1: Identify Key Concepts

From the Paper Configuration Record, extract:

  • Primary concepts (2-4 core terms)
  • Secondary concepts (related terms, synonyms)
  • Discipline-specific terminology
  • Boolean combinations

Step 2: Database Selection

Discipline Primary Databases
Education ERIC, Education Source, JSTOR
CS/Engineering IEEE Xplore, ACM DL, Scopus
Medicine PubMed, MEDLINE, Cochrane
Social Science SSRN, Web of Science, Scopus
Humanities JSTOR, Project MUSE, MLA International Bibliography
Business ABI/INFORM, Business Source Complete
General Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus
Taiwan HEI Taiwan National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, Airiti Library, TSSCI

Step 3: Search String Construction

("concept A" OR "synonym A1") AND ("concept B" OR "synonym B1")
  AND ("concept C") NOT ("exclusion term")
  Filters: peer-reviewed, [year range], [language]

Step 4: Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria

Criterion Include Exclude
Publication type Peer-reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings Blog posts, news articles (unless as primary data)
Date range Last 10 years (default) + seminal works Outdated unless historically relevant
Language Per config (EN, zh-TW, or both) Other languages unless key source
Relevance Directly addresses RQ Tangentially related

Read the full file on GitHub · 511 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 · 511 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 25ee4fe89621

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literature_strategist_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository LUNARTECH-X/superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 6,607 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.