related-work-survey

related-work-survey is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxtse/scientific-research-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (954 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for surveying earlier research on a question and positioning a new paper. It organizes the literature by several dimensions, builds a classification of prior work, identifies an unresolved gap, and turns that analysis into a related-work section.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan literature searches, map research areas, compare prior methods, identify gaps, and write a paper's related-work or state-of-the-art review.
Why use it?
It avoids producing only a flat list of papers with no clear comparison. It helps show what has already been tried, how approaches differ, and where a new contribution fits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan literature searches, map research areas, compare prior methods, identify gaps, and write a paper's related-work or state-of-the-art review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxtse/scientific-research-skills/related-work-survey
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 jxtse/scientific-research-skills --skill related-work-survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxtse/scientific-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 954 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

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 $0.00145 $0.00954
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00095

Measured 13d ago against content hash 62b897cfa124, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

related-work-survey 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 13d 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/related-work-survey/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Systematic literature survey for positioning a research contribution.

When to Use

  • User starts a new research project and needs landscape understanding
  • User asks "what's been done on X?"
  • User needs to write a related work section
  • User wants to identify the gap their work fills

Workflow

Step 1: Define the Research Question

Work with the user to pin down:

  • Core question: What specific problem are we solving?
  • Key concepts: What are the 3-5 key terms/concepts?
  • Scope boundaries: What's in scope vs. adjacent but out of scope?

Step 2: Identify Survey Dimensions

Every research topic sits at an intersection of multiple dimensions. Identify 2-4 axes:

Example for "Neural-Symbolic Decomposition in LLM Agents":

  • Axis 1: Neuro-symbolic integration approaches
  • Axis 2: LLM agent architectures (harness, scaffolding)
  • Axis 3: Adaptive/metacognitive planning
  • Axis 4: Text analysis at scale (specific application)

Step 3: Search Each Dimension

For each axis, use literature-search skill with targeted queries:

Axis 1 → "neuro-symbolic integration LLM reasoning 2024 2025"
Axis 2 → "LLM agent harness scaffolding architecture survey"
Axis 3 → "metacognitive planning adaptive tool use LLM"
Axis 4 → "large scale text analysis LLM code generation quality"

Collect 10-20 papers per axis, then deduplicate across axes.

Step 4: Build the Taxonomy

Organize papers into a structured taxonomy:

## Related Work Taxonomy

### 1. Neuro-Symbolic Integration
  1.1 Neural reasoning with symbolic verification
  1.2 Symbolic planning with neural execution
  1.3 Adaptive decomposition (our focus)

### 2. LLM Agent Architecture
  2.1 Harness engineering
  2.2 Self-evolving agents
  2.3 Meta-Harness optimization

### 3. ...

Step 5: Identify the Gap

The gap is where your work lives — the intersection that no existing paper covers:

Paper A does X but not Y.
Paper B does Y but not X.
We do both X and Y, connected by Z.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 13d ago First seen · 129 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 62b897cfa124

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related-work-survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxtse/scientific-research-skills (68 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 954 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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