literature-landscape

literature-landscape is a skill for Claude Code from Agentic-Assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,231 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A figure-generation tool for showing how an academic research area changes over time, including its publications, citations, journals, themes, methods, and gaps.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating figures for literature reviews, survey papers, dissertations, grant proposals, and paper introductions.
Why use it?
It turns literature-search results into visual summaries, making patterns and areas with little research easier to inspect.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python utils/lit_landscape.py output/lit_landscape_data.json \.

Part of the corbis-literature-starter-kit plugin — 6 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for creating figures for literature reviews, survey papers, dissertations, grant proposals, and paper introductions.

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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/Agentic-Assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentic-assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit/literature-landscape

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install corbis-literature-starter-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,231 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 $0.00046 $0.02231
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01115
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00223

Measured 11d ago against content hash 109109e5abca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-landscape 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/skills/literature-landscape/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Landscape

Generate publication-ready figures that visualize the structure and evolution of an academic literature. These figures appear in survey papers, dissertation chapters, grant proposals, and paper introductions to motivate research gaps.

When to use

  • The user wants to visualize trends in a field (publication volume, citation patterns, thematic shifts)
  • The user has completed a literature search (via /lit-review or /lit-search) and wants figures
  • The user wants to identify research gaps visually (the coverage gap map)
  • The user is writing a survey or lit review chapter and needs landscape figures

Prerequisites

Requires Python with matplotlib, pandas, and numpy. If not installed:

pip install matplotlib pandas numpy

Available figure types

Key Figure What it shows
timeline Publication timeline Papers per year, optionally stacked by journal
citations Citation landmark chart Scatter of year vs. citations, top papers labeled
journals Journal distribution Horizontal bars: which outlets publish most on the topic
themes Thematic evolution heatmap Keyword frequency across year bins, showing focus shifts
methods Methods timeline Stacked bar of identification strategies over time
gapmap Coverage gap map Matrix: settings x methods, empty cells = research gaps

Inputs to collect

Input Required? Default
Topic or research question Yes (if no existing data)
Existing paper data (JSON file, bib file, or reading list) No Run fresh Corbis searches
Which figures to generate Yes (propose, user selects) All 6
Gap map row dimension No Geographic setting (auto-detected)
Gap map column dimension No Research method (auto-detected)

If the user provides a topic but no existing data, run searches to build the dataset. If they point to an existing reading list or bib file from a prior /lit-review, use that as the starting point and enrich with get_paper_details to fill in missing citation counts and abstracts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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 · 228 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 109109e5abca

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literature-landscape is a skill published in the GitHub repository Agentic-Assets/corbis-literature-starter-kit (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,231 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 2026-08-30.

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