literature-review

literature-review is a skill for Claude Code from halflifezyf2680/Skill-Shelf. It costs 86 tokens per session (2,955 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A research tool for finding and combining published studies from sources such as PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv (a site for early scientific papers), and Semantic Scholar.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search across scientific and biomedical databases, review the available studies, and synthesize their findings.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of searching many academic databases and bringing the results together. It is intended for systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other research summaries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to search across scientific and biomedical databases, review the available studies, and synthesize their findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/halflifezyf2680/skill-shelf/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 halflifezyf2680/Skill-Shelf --skill literature-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/halflifezyf2680/Skill-Shelf

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for literature-review

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for literature-review

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,955 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00086 $0.02955
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01477
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00296

Measured 6d ago against content hash 950a6d0863ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

literature-review scanned grade C with 2 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (scripts/generate_pdf.py, scripts/generate_schematic_ai.py, scripts/generate_schematic.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash
data/hub/packages/academic-research/literature-review/SKILL.md · 281 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

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. 6d ago Changed · -419 lines 950a6d0863ef
  2. 12d ago First seen · 700 lines · 86 tokens per session scan C 85b353da774b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository halflifezyf2680/Skill-Shelf (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,955 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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