literature-review

literature-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 20 tokens per session (2,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for finding, assessing, combining, and explaining published research on a question. A literature review is the part of academic work that shows what is already known, how reliable it is, and what remains unanswered.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan repeatable searches, judge source quality, group findings by theme, identify gaps for new research, and build the evidence-based narrative of a paper or thesis.
Why use it?
It turns scattered papers into an organized account of the evidence and helps prevent missed sources or unsupported conclusions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan repeatable searches, judge source quality, group findings by theme, identify gaps for new research, and build the evidence-based narrative of a paper or thesis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/literature-review
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 fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill literature-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,265 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.02265
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01132
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00227

Measured 12d ago against content hash 61a73ab9c3cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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/academic-research/literature-review/skills/literature-review/SKILL.md · 363 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 363 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Literature Review

Systematic literature search, synthesis, gap identification, and narrative construction for academic research.

Metadata

Field Value
Skill ID literature-review
Version 1.0.0
Category Research
Difficulty Advanced
Prerequisites None
Related Skills academic-research, citation-management, dissertation-defense

Overview

Literature review is foundational to academic research. This skill provides structured workflows for systematic searching, critical synthesis, and gap identification—transforming scattered sources into coherent scholarly narratives.

Core Competencies

  1. Systematic Search - Reproducible, comprehensive search strategies
  2. Critical Appraisal - Quality assessment of sources
  3. Synthesis - Thematic integration across sources
  4. Gap Identification - Locating research opportunities
  5. Narrative Construction - Weaving sources into argument

Module 1: Systematic Search Strategy

The PICO(S) Framework

For empirical research questions:

Element Description Example (AIRS)
Population Who is studied Knowledge workers, AI users
Intervention What is applied AI-powered tools, copilots
Comparison Alternative Traditional tools, no AI
Outcome What is measured Adoption intention, behavioral intention
Study type Research design Quantitative survey, SEM

Database Selection

Database Best For Coverage
Google Scholar Broad discovery, citation tracking All disciplines
Web of Science High-impact journals, citation analysis STEM, social sciences
Scopus Comprehensive coverage, author metrics Multidisciplinary
ACM Digital Library Computer science, HCI CS, CHI proceedings
PsycINFO Psychology, behavioral research Psychology, social sciences
SSRN Working papers, preprints Business, economics, law

Read the full file on GitHub · 363 lines

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 · 363 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 61a73ab9c3cc

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literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 2,265 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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