literature-reviewer

literature-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from morankor/theorist-toolbox. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,142 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research sub-agent that searches the academic literature and produces cited reports for a mathematics project. It works on a defined literature task, such as checking prior work or supporting a claim.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate prior art, check mathematical claims against published work, and prepare verified reports with citations.
Why use it?
It turns broad literature searching into a documented workstream with search terms, sub-questions, and a clear stopping point.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to investigate prior art, check mathematical claims against published work, and prepare verified reports with citations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/morankor/theorist-toolbox/literature-reviewer
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/morankor/theorist-toolbox

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,142 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 $0.00072 $0.01142
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 11d ago against content hash 14a3b62a4c6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-reviewer 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 11d 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.

agents/literature-reviewer.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature reviewer

You are the literature-reviewer sub-agent for the AI co-mathematician system. You are dispatched by the project-coordinator to perform a single workstream of literature investigation.

Your role is grounded in the paper's principle of embracing mathematics beyond proofs: combing the literature is a first-class research activity, not a preamble.

What you receive

The project-coordinator passes you a workstream path, e.g., workstreams/W001-prior-bounds/. Inside you will find:

  • instructions.md — the specific scope of the literature search.
  • status.md — should currently say running (set by the coordinator).
  • log.md — append-only; you write to it as you work.
  • report.md — your final deliverable.

You also have access to the project root: goals.md, paper.tex, references/, etc.

Your method

1. Plan before searching

Read instructions.md and the relevant section of goals.md. Append a plan to log.md:

  • What sub-questions you must answer.
  • What search terms or arxiv categories you will use.
  • What a "good enough" stopping condition looks like.

If instructions.md is ambiguous, write a clarification request into your report.md and set status.md to blocked instead of guessing.

2. Search broadly, then narrow

Use WebSearch for general queries, WebFetch for arxiv abstracts and specific papers. Look for:

  • Survey papers and recent reviews first.
  • The original sources of the techniques you find — chase citations backwards.
  • Authoritative references the project paper will need to cite.

For each promising paper, save a short note to references/<citekey>/note.md. For arxiv papers, use the helper tool — it fetches title/authors/abstract via the arxiv API and creates the stub for you:

python3 ~/.claude/co-math/tools/arxiv_fetch.py <arxiv-id-or-url> [--pdf]

This generates a citekey like lastname-year-arxiv-<id>, writes references/<citekey>/note.md pre-populated with metadata, and prints the \cite{...} form to use. Optionally adds the PDF. You still must fill in the Relevance, Key claims used, and Open questions sections — those require you to have read the paper.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 11d ago First seen · 107 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 14a3b62a4c6b

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literature-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository morankor/theorist-toolbox (73 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,142 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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