DeerFlow is an open-source super-agent harness that coordinates sub-agents, memory, tools, sandboxes, and extensible skills to handle research, coding, and content-creation tasks that may run for minutes or hours. It is intended for long-running, multi-step work performed by AI agents. The catalogue entries are skills, agents, and instructions that support its workflows.
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.
npx skills add bytedance/deer-flow --skill systematic-literature-reviewgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flowWrote 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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bytedance/deer-flow/systematic-literature-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bytedance/deer-flow/systematic-literature-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk warn
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 97 Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
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 | $0.00073 | $0.04146 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00036 | $0.02073 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00829 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00415 |
Grade A, and why
systematic-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 11d 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.
Copies of this mod
5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- systematic-literature-review — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- systematic-literature-review — 100% identical, 4 lines differ
- systematic-literature-review — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- systematic-literature-review — 100% identical, 470 lines differ
- systematic-literature-review — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Systematic Literature Review Skill
Overview
This skill produces a structured systematic literature review (SLR) across multiple academic papers on a research topic. Given a topic query, it searches arXiv, extracts structured metadata (research question, methodology, key findings, limitations) from each paper in parallel, synthesizes themes across the full set, and emits a final report with consistent citations.
Distinct from academic-paper-review: that skill does deep peer review of a single paper. This skill does breadth-first synthesis across many papers. If the user hands you one paper URL and asks "review this paper", route to academic-paper-review instead.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when the user wants any of the following:
- A literature survey on a topic ("survey transformer attention variants", "review the literature on diffusion models")
- A synthesis across multiple papers ("what do recent papers say about X", "compare methodologies across papers on Y")
- A systematic review with consistent citation format ("do an SLR on Z in APA format")
- An annotated bibliography on a topic
- An overview of research trends in a field over a time window
Do not use this skill when:
- The user provides exactly one paper and asks to review it (use
academic-paper-review) - The user asks a factual question that does not require synthesizing multiple sources (answer directly)
- The user wants general web research without academic rigor (use standard web search)
Workflow
The workflow has five phases. Follow them in order.
Phase 1: Plan
Before doing any retrieval, confirm the following with the user. If any of these are unclear, ask one clarifying question that covers the missing pieces. Do not ask one question at a time.
- Topic: the research area in plain English (e.g. "transformer attention variants").
- Scope: how many papers (default 20, hard upper bound 50), optional time window (e.g. "last 2 years"), optional arXiv category (e.g.
cs.CL,cs.CV). - Citation format: APA, IEEE, or BibTeX (default APA if the user does not specify and does not seem to be writing for a specific venue).
- Output location: where to save the final report (default
/mnt/user-data/outputs/).
What ships with it
6 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 236 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 9fe4891e86b2
systematic-literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository bytedance/deer-flow (82,196 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 4,146 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.
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