lit-review-assistant

lit-review-assistant is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,626 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research assistant for economics literature, the published studies and working papers in the field.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search, summarize, and synthesize economics research.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding relevant papers and combining their findings into a coherent overview.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to search, summarize, and synthesize economics research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills/lit-review-assistant
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 brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill lit-review-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,626 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 unknown 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 $0.00014 $0.01626
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00650
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00163

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a1e7fd861a0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lit-review-assistant 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.

skills/09-meleantonio-awesome-econ-ai-stuff/_skills/literature/lit-review-assistant/SKILL.md · 231 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 231 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A a1e7fd861a0e

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lit-review-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (4,786 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,626 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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