literature_strategist_agent

literature_strategist_agent is an agent for Claude Code from Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1. It costs 20 tokens per session (7,978 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of literature_strategist_agent, MIT.

A research-planning agent for finding and choosing academic sources. It creates documented search strategies, screens sources, and organizes findings into annotated bibliographies and literature matrices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan literature searches across academic databases, assess potential sources, and prepare an evidence base for a paper.
Why use it?
It replaces ad hoc searching with a repeatable process for finding relevant, credible research. It also helps balance foundational work with newer studies.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the ARG-Researcher plugin — 4 skills, 11 commands, 34 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan literature searches across academic databases, assess potential sources, and prepare an evidence base for a paper.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/masqiller/arg-researcher-v4.1/literature_strategist_agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ARG-Researcher, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 11 commands, 34 agents, 1 hook.

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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 7,978 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 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.07978
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.03989
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01596
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00798

Measured 12d ago against content hash 94246a621bef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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

This is a copy

84% identical to literature_strategist_agent — 86 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

academic-paper/agents/literature_strategist_agent.md · 593 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 593 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 Dr. Mridankan, 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
Robotics / Autonomous Systems / Robot Learning IEEE Xplore (T-RO, RA-L, T-ASE), Scopus, Web of Science, ACM DL — see Step 2b for full venue registry
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 2b: Discipline-Specific Source Registry

When the Paper Configuration Record identifies the discipline as Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Robot Learning, Manipulation, HRI, or closely related AI/Automation fields, the following source registry takes precedence over the general database table above. Apply this registry for all Layer 1–4 searches in those disciplines.

Read the full file on GitHub · 593 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. 12d ago First seen · 593 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 94246a621bef

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literature_strategist_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Masqiller/ARG-RESEARCHER-V4.1 (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 7,978 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to literature_strategist_agent, differing in 86 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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