lit-review-synthesis

lit-review-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 96 tokens per session (957 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning notes about research papers into a literature review organised around an argument. A literature review explains what a field agrees on, where studies differ, and what gap the new research addresses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to group studies into themes, compare their methods and findings, identify limitations, build an evidence table, and draft a review chapter.
Why use it?
It avoids producing a paper-by-paper list and keeps each paragraph focused on a claim supported by sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the thesis plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to group studies into themes, compare their methods and findings, identify limitations, build an evidence table, and draft a review chapter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/lit-review-synthesis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill lit-review-synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install thesis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 957 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 $0.00096 $0.00957
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00383
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00096

Measured 25d ago against content hash bee3204f374d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lit-review-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 25d 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/thesis/skills/lit-review-synthesis/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A literature review is an argument that ends in the gap. It is not a sequence of "Smith (2023) did X. Jones (2024) did Y." Every paragraph makes a point about the field, and papers appear as evidence for that point. This skill works only from paper-reader notes so that every sentence about a paper is traceable.

Inputs

  1. research/notes/*.md (the notes; refuse to proceed with fewer than five, and say why).
  2. research/QUESTION.md (the research question the review must lead to).
  3. references.bib (keys must match note front matter).
  4. Target length and the department's expected structure, if any.

Step 1: build the evidence matrix

Read every note and tabulate, in research/evidence-matrix.md:

key year type setting method main finding limitation relevance themes

The themes column is filled in Step 2. This table is a thesis artifact in its own right (appendix material) and lets the student see the field at a glance.

Step 2: find the structure

Cluster notes into three to six themes. Good themes are claims about the field, not topic labels: "Rule-based feedback scales but does not transfer across assignments" rather than "Rule-based approaches". Test each theme:

  • It has at least two papers.
  • Its papers can be compared on some dimension (method, setting, result).
  • It moves the argument toward the gap.

Then map the tensions: where do papers disagree, and is the disagreement explained by method, setting, or time? Disagreements are the most valuable paragraphs in a review.

Note methodological patterns across the field (everyone uses dataset D; nobody reports variance; evaluations are all with novices). These become the "limitations of prior work" paragraph and often are the gap.

Step 3: outline

Write the outline as claims, one line per paragraph:

1. Intro: scope of the review and how sources were found (from search-log.md).
2. Theme A claim. Evidence: smith2023, lee2022. Tension: chen2021 finds the opposite, in setting S.
3. ...
N-1. Methodological limitations across the field.
N. The gap, stated as the research question, and what this thesis does about it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 25d ago First seen · 72 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A bee3204f374d

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lit-review-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 957 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-22.

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