finance-literature-review

finance-literature-review is a skill for Cursor from azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill. It costs 104 tokens per session (604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finance-first literature reviews and related research summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for finance, macro-finance, corporate finance, asset pricing, banking and disclosure topics, including reading lists, literature matrices and synthesis.
Why use it?
It helps scope a question, find and verify relevant papers, distinguish published work from working papers and compare studies by their research design.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it for finance, macro-finance, corporate finance, asset pricing, banking and disclosure topics, including reading lists, literature matrices and synthesis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill/finance-literature-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.

Any agent
npx skills add azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill --skill finance-literature-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 604 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 $0.00104 $0.00604
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00060

Measured 12d ago against content hash aa0b8999bee8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finance-literature-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 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.

.cursor/skills/finance-literature-review/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finance Literature Review

Purpose

Run a disciplined finance literature review rather than a generic paper search.

The default goal is to:

  1. scope the question,
  2. prioritize venues correctly,
  3. verify citations,
  4. extract finance-relevant study attributes,
  5. synthesize by design and mechanism,
  6. produce a usable reading list and matrix.

See:

Hard Rules

  • Never fabricate citations or metadata.
  • Always separate published papers from working papers.
  • Start with top finance journals.
  • Only widen into economics or accounting when the topic genuinely overlaps.
  • Capture sample, period, unit of observation, identification strategy, main result, mechanism, and limitation for each core empirical paper.
  • Say explicitly when only titles or abstracts are available.

Venue Order

  1. Core finance journals.
  2. Adjacent finance journals.
  3. Top economics journals if needed.
  4. Top accounting journals if needed.
  5. Frontier working-paper outlets.

Use references/journal-priority.md.

Workflow

Step 1: Scope

Clarify the topic, mechanism, geography, sample period, and output type.

Step 2: Search Grid

Build a search grid with:

  • concept terms,
  • finance synonyms,
  • method terms,
  • policy or event names,
  • dataset names,
  • working-paper sources.

Step 3: Collect

Collect seminal published papers first, then recent papers, then frontier working papers.

Step 4: Extract

Use templates/literature-matrix.md and record:

  • citation,
  • venue tier,
  • published or working paper,
  • question,
  • sample and period,
  • unit,
  • identification strategy,
  • main finding,
  • mechanism,
  • limitation,
  • why the paper matters.

Step 5: Synthesize

Synthesize by theme, mechanism, and design. Avoid paper-by-paper summaries unless requested.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 99 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A aa0b8999bee8

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finance-literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 604 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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