What is research-lit?

A research literature tool for finding papers, related work, and explanations of academic papers. It can use sources such as local PDF collections and online scholarly indexes.

Use it to search for papers on a topic, find related work, summarise papers, and inspect a project's local research PDFs.

It reduces the time spent searching across scattered paper collections and services. It provides a starting point for understanding prior work and assembling a literature review.

research-lit — Skill for Claude Code by AutoConference

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/AutoConference/AutoConference-skill

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/autoconference/autoconference-skill/research-lit

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 11,714 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00048	$0.11714
Opus 5.5	$0.00019	$0.04686
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.02343
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.01171

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 00d9f549e4db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-lit 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to research-lit — 82 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/aris/research-lit/SKILL.md · 757 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 757 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Literature Review

Research topic: $ARGUMENTS

Constants

PAPER_LIBRARY — Local directory containing user's paper collection (PDFs). Check these paths in order:
1. papers/ in the current project directory
2. literature/ in the current project directory
3. Custom path specified by user in CLAUDE.md under ## Paper Library
MAX_LOCAL_PAPERS = 20 — Maximum number of local PDFs to scan (read first 3 pages each). If more are found, prioritize by filename relevance to the topic.
SOURCES = all — Which literature sources to search. Options: zotero, obsidian, local, web, semantic-scholar, deepxiv, exa, gemini, openalex, all. Full source table and selection rules: see ## Data Sources below.
ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = false — When true, download top 3-5 most relevant arXiv PDFs to PAPER_LIBRARY after search. When false (default), only fetch metadata (title, abstract, authors) via arXiv API — no files are downloaded.
ARXIV_MAX_DOWNLOAD = 5 — Maximum number of PDFs to download when ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = true.

💡 Overrides:

/research-lit "topic" — paper library: ~/my_papers/ — custom local PDF path

/research-lit "topic" — sources: zotero, local — only search Zotero + local PDFs

/research-lit "topic" — sources: web — only search the web (skip all local)

/research-lit "topic" — sources: web, semantic-scholar — also search Semantic Scholar for published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, etc.)

/research-lit "topic" — sources: all, deepxiv — use default sources plus DeepXiv

/research-lit "topic" — arxiv download: true — download top relevant arXiv PDFs

/research-lit "topic" — arxiv download: true, max download: 10 — download up to 10 PDFs

Data Sources

This skill checks multiple sources in priority order. All are optional — if a source is not configured or not requested, skip it silently.

Source Selection

Parse $ARGUMENTS for a — sources: directive:

If — sources: is specified: Only search the listed sources (comma-separated). Valid values: zotero, obsidian, local, web, semantic-scholar, deepxiv, exa, gemini, openalex, all.
If not specified: Default to all — search every available source in priority order (semantic-scholar, deepxiv, exa, gemini, and openalex are excluded from all; they must be explicitly listed).

Read the full file on GitHub · 757 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.

1mo ago First seen · 757 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 00d9f549e4db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-lit is a skill published in the GitHub repository AutoConference/AutoConference-skill (13 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 11,714 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to research-lit, differing in 82 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Research

research-lit next to 6 skills from other repositories
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research-litAutoConference/AutoConference-skill	Skill	13	4d ago	Apache-2.0	A	48	Claude Code
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