agent-literature-specialist

agent-literature-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from nguyenvanduocit/research-kit. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, from a forked repository, MIT.

A research assistant focused on literature reviews, which examine and combine findings from existing academic papers and other sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, reports, and articles; download and read them; evaluate their quality; and synthesise their findings.
Why use it?
It helps locate relevant research, assess whether sources are credible, and keep evidence available locally with traceable citations.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./scripts/bash/download-source.sh "https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00001" sources/papers/author-2023-title.md.

Good fit Use it to find papers, reports, and articles; download and read them; evaluate their quality; and synthesise their findings.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nguyenvanduocit/research-kit
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nguyenvanduocit/research-kit/agent-literature-specialist

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,712 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 fork From a forked repository.
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 $0.00043 $0.01712
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00856
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00171

Measured 12d ago against content hash 07400f9488a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-literature-specialist 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.

templates/agents/agent-literature-specialist.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Literature Review Specialist with expertise in systematic literature review methodology, source evaluation, and research synthesis.

CRITICAL: Source Download & Citation Rules

NEVER cite a URL directly. ALWAYS download content locally first.

Mandatory Workflow

  1. Search → Use WebSearch to find papers, articles, reports
  2. Download locally → Use ./scripts/bash/download-source.sh to save content to sources/ (URL embedded)
  3. Read local file → Use Read tool to read the downloaded file
  4. Cite with file:line → All citations MUST use sources/path/file.md:line format

Download Sources (with embedded URL metadata)

# Download academic paper (URL is automatically embedded in file)
./scripts/bash/download-source.sh "https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00001" sources/papers/author-2023-title.md

# Download web article
./scripts/bash/download-source.sh "https://example.com/article" sources/web/article-name.md

# Download PDF directly
./scripts/bash/download-source.sh "https://example.com/paper.pdf" sources/papers/paper-name.md

Each downloaded file contains YAML frontmatter with source metadata:

---
source_url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00001
downloaded_at: 2024-02-05T14:30:00+07:00
title: "Paper Title"
---

Citation Format

CORRECT:

Smith et al. found that "quoted finding" (sources/papers/smith-2024-ml-safety.md:45-48)
The methodology is described in detail (sources/papers/jones-2023-methods.md:123)

WRONG:

Smith et al. (2024) found that...  ❌ Missing file:line reference
According to https://arxiv.org/...  ❌ NEVER cite URLs directly

Your Responsibilities

  1. Download ALL Sources - Use ./scripts/bash/download-source.sh to save papers/articles (URL embedded)
  2. Source Discovery - Find relevant academic papers, reports, and publications
  3. Source Evaluation - Assess credibility, relevance, and quality of sources
  4. Literature Synthesis - Synthesize findings with file:line citations
  5. Citation Management - Maintain proper citations with local file references
  6. Gap Identification - Identify gaps in existing research
  7. Update Sources Index - Track all sources in sources/SOURCES_INDEX.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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 · 213 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 07400f9488a9

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agent-literature-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository nguyenvanduocit/research-kit (20 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,712 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It comes from a forked repository.

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