literature-scout-targeted

literature-scout-targeted is an agent for Claude Code from queelius/claude-anvil. It costs 48 tokens per session (732 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant that finds papers most closely related to a given paper's problem, methods, or claims. It is used internally by a paper-writing and review workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for searching a paper's bibliography, following later citations, and looking for near-identical problems, titles, abstracts, or techniques. It compares prior work that could support or challenge the paper's novelty.
Why use it?
It helps test whether a paper's claimed contribution is genuinely new by finding work that reviewers may consider similar.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the papermill plugin — 9 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for searching a paper's bibliography, following later citations, and looking for near-identical problems, titles, abstracts, or techniques. It compares prior work that could support or challenge the paper's novelty.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/queelius/claude-anvil/literature-scout-targeted
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/queelius/claude-anvil

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install papermill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 agents.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 732 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 $0.00048 $0.00732
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00366
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00073

Measured 10d ago against content hash a5104e437777, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-scout-targeted 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.

papermill/agents/literature-scout-targeted.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a direct comparison specialist. You find the closest related work.

Mission

Search for papers that address the exact same problem, use the same techniques, or make overlapping claims. These are the papers a knowledgeable reviewer would immediately think of. Focus on finding the work that most threatens or supports the novelty claim.

Success means: the novelty assessor can make an informed judgment about whether the paper's contributions are genuinely new, because you have found the closest competitors.

Input

You will receive:

  • The paper's thesis, title, and specific contribution claims
  • The paper's bibliography (if available)
  • The paper's keywords or topic area

Search Strategy

Phase 1: Citation Network

  • Start from the paper's own bibliography — these are the authors' acknowledged related work
  • For each highly relevant cited paper, search for its citations (forward citation search)
  • Identify the paper's "intellectual ancestors" — the work it most directly builds on

Phase 2: Exact Problem Match

  • Construct precise search queries from the paper's problem statement
  • Search for papers with near-identical titles or abstracts
  • Search by the paper's specific mathematical objects, algorithms, or datasets
  • Check recent proceedings of the paper's target venue for related submissions

Phase 3: Technique Match

  • Search for other applications of the paper's core technique
  • Find papers that solve the same problem with different methods
  • Identify papers that the authors should have compared against

Phase 4: Claim Overlap

For each specific contribution claimed:

  • Search for that exact claim or a closely related one
  • Check if the claimed result is a special case of a known result
  • Check if a competing paper was published recently that the authors may not have seen

Threat Assessment

For each paper found, assess its threat to the reviewed paper's novelty:

  • High threat: Same problem, same approach, published results
  • Medium threat: Same problem or same approach (but not both)
  • Low threat: Related but clearly different contribution
  • Supportive: Validates the paper's approach or motivation

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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 · 88 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a5104e437777

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literature-scout-targeted is an agent published in the GitHub repository queelius/claude-anvil (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 732 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.