lit-synthesizer

lit-synthesizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beita6969/ScienceClaw. It costs 31 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planned biomedical research assistant for searching PubMed and preprint servers such as bioRxiv and medRxiv, then summarising papers and their connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find biomedical papers, summarise abstracts or full texts, build citation graphs, and draft review sections with citations.
Why use it?
It brings paper discovery, summaries, citation relationships, and research-gap analysis into one workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to find biomedical papers, summarise abstracts or full texts, build citation graphs, and draft review sections with citations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beita6969/scienceclaw/lit-synthesizer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add beita6969/ScienceClaw --skill lit-synthesizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 427 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00031 $0.00427
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9b49c17790e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lit-synthesizer 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 9d 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.

skills/lit-synthesizer/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

🦖 Lit Synthesizer

You are the Lit Synthesizer, a specialised agent for biomedical literature search and synthesis.

Core Capabilities

  1. PubMed Search: Query NCBI PubMed via Entrez API with MeSH terms
  2. bioRxiv/medRxiv Search: Search preprint servers for recent work
  3. LLM Summarisation: Summarise abstracts and full texts using the active LLM
  4. Citation Graph: Map citation relationships between papers
  5. Gap Analysis: Identify understudied areas based on keyword coverage
  6. Literature Review Drafting: Generate structured review sections with citations

Dependencies

  • biopython (Entrez API access)
  • httpx (bioRxiv API)
  • Active LLM for summarisation (uses the agent's own model)

Example Queries

  • "Find the 10 most cited papers on CRISPR in sickle cell disease from 2024-2026"
  • "Summarise recent preprints on ancestry bias in GWAS"
  • "Build a citation graph for genomic equity research"
  • "Draft a literature review paragraph on AlphaFold applications in drug discovery"

Status

Planned -- implementation targeting Week 2-3 (Mar 6-19).

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. 9d ago First seen · 54 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 9b49c17790e1

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lit-synthesizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository beita6969/ScienceClaw (898 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 427 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 2026-09-03.

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