literature

literature is a skill for Claude Code from bayeslabs-rsi/Svatah. It costs 27 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A literature-curation workflow for collecting a small, project-specific snapshot of academic research and turning it into method cards. bioRxiv is a website where researchers share scientific papers before formal journal review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after committing a benchmark baseline to search configured academic providers, inspect the frozen sources and cards, or refresh them after a material project change.
Why use it?
It keeps research sources fixed for a benchmark run, avoids unrelated papers, and prevents later optimisation steps from silently changing the evidence base.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the sva plugin — 6 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after committing a benchmark baseline to search configured academic providers, inspect the frozen sources and cards, or refresh them after a material project change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bayeslabs-rsi/svatah/literature
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 bayeslabs-rsi/Svatah --skill literature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bayeslabs-rsi/Svatah

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sva, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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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 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 407 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 $0.00027 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00041

Measured 12d ago against content hash 291b07f0a348, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature 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.

plugins/sva/skills/literature/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Literature Curation

Svatah literature is a run-start input, not an optimization-loop activity.

Initial Curation

Run this exactly once after the benchmark baseline is committed and .sva/project.md describes the task, inputs, primary metric, constraints, and baseline:

sva literature curate --repo-root .

The command builds a typed project profile, issues one bounded query to each configured academic provider, rejects unrelated sources, synthesizes concrete source-grounded method cards, and freezes the result for the active run. Resuming the run reuses the same snapshot.

Read-Only Inspection

sva literature status --repo-root .
sva literature cards --repo-root . --limit 3
sva literature cards --repo-root . --query "<typed task or mechanism>" --limit 3

These commands never access the network. Round plans and subagent briefs may use only card IDs from this frozen snapshot.

Manual Revision

Only an operator may replace a frozen snapshot, and only when the project or benchmark contract materially changed:

sva literature curate --repo-root . --refresh --reason "<project contract change>"

This creates a new revision and preserves the previous revision. Advisors, critics, recovery rounds, plateau handling, and subagents must never invoke a refresh automatically.

Rules

  • Do not invoke provider adapters directly or construct an ad hoc query.
  • Do not turn hypotheses, critic feedback, experiment IDs, or planner labels into literature queries.
  • Do not claim that an abstract proves an exact implementation.
  • A literature-backed experiment must reference a valid frozen method-card ID.
  • If curation is empty or unavailable, continue without literature. Do not retry automatically.
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 · 59 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 291b07f0a348

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literature is a skill published in the GitHub repository bayeslabs-rsi/Svatah (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 407 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 2026-08-31.

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