lit-review

lit-review is a command for Claude Code from Marazii/research-co-pilot. It costs 12 tokens per session (227 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for carrying out a fact-checked literature review, which is a structured summary and evaluation of existing research on a topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scope a review, use supplied files or permitted searches, evaluate and synthesize sources, delegate reading when there are many sources, and save a structured Markdown report.
Why use it?
It provides a defined process for choosing sources, assessing their quality, comparing findings, and checking the final review for gaps.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the research-co-pilot plugin — 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Scope a review, use supplied files or permitted searches, evaluate and synthesize sources, delegate reading when there are many sources, and save a structured Markdown report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/marazii/research-co-pilot/lit-review
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/Marazii/research-co-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-co-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 227 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 $0.00012 $0.00227
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00113
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00023

Measured 10d ago against content hash bb32e83a741c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lit-review 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.

commands/lit-review.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the literature-review skill from the research-co-pilot plugin and execute its full workflow.

The skill file is at skills/literature-review/SKILL.md relative to this plugin. Read it and follow it precisely — including:

  • Phase 1: Scope the review (clarify type, discipline, inclusion criteria, sources at hand).
  • Phase 2: Source acquisition — read user-provided files first, then targeted search if allowed.
  • Phase 3-4: Critical appraisal and synthesis (organize by idea, not by source).
  • Phase 5: Output to lit_review_<topic>.md with the specified structure.
  • Phase 6: Self-audit checklist.

For >5 sources, delegate parallel reading to the source-finder subagent.

User input: $ARGUMENTS

If no topic was given, ask what to review and what sources/scope are in play.

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 · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bb32e83a741c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lit-review is a command published in the GitHub repository Marazii/research-co-pilot (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 227 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.