Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add docxology/template --skill literature-synthesisgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docxology/templateWrote 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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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 | $0.00065 | $0.00615 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00308 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00123 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
template-literature-synthesis 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 10d 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.
What it actually says
Literature synthesis
Prompt blocks for infrastructure.llm or project synthesis.py after literature search.
Natural invoke
- "Synthesize these 12 papers into thematic clusters with citation keys"
- "Per-paper structured notes: contribution, method, evidence, limitation"
- "Gap analysis: what experiments would close open questions?"
Inputs to confirm
- Corpus — list of papers (title, authors, year, abstract, optional fulltext).
- Goal paragraph — for gap-analysis variant only.
Paper block format
Each paper renders as:
### {citation_key} — {title} ({year})
**Authors:** {authors}
**DOI / URL:** {doi or url}
**Abstract:** {abstract}
Workflows
Per-paper analysis
Structured note: CONTRIBUTION (one sentence), METHOD (2–3 bullets), EVIDENCE (2–3 bullets), LIMITATION (one bullet), TAGS (3–7 lowercase). Cite as [{citation_key}].
Cross-paper synthesis
Group into 3–7 thematic clusters; summarise dominant approach; agreements/disagreements; 3 open questions. Cite only corpus keys in square brackets.
Gap analysis
Given GOAL + corpus: per paper COVERS/LACKS sub-claims; propose 3 follow-up experiments. Cite by key.
Style
- Bracket-key citations only — not bare titles.
- Bound input: truncate fulltext;
temperature=0.0,seed=42for replay. - Optional second pass:
infrastructure.llm.validation.validate_complete.
Verification
- Outputs under
output/llm/or project convention; keys matchreferences.bib. - See
projects/templates/template_search_project/for wired implementation.
When NOT to use
- Running literature search backends →
infrastructure/search/and project search scripts - New manuscript from scratch → manuscript-creation
References
Full prompt text and programmatic example: references/prompt-blocks.md
What ships with it
5 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.
- 10d ago First seen · 82 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A e4c106050e37
template-literature-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 615 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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