student-literature

student-literature is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LiXin97/agora-lab. It costs 20 tokens per session (395 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research assistant for surveying existing papers, articles, and code to understand what is already known about a topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a survey, find and summarize relevant work, organize themes and gaps, choose an initial baseline, and publish a structured literature review.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicated work and makes unclear research ideas more concrete by identifying standard comparison methods, unanswered questions, and promising directions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define a survey, find and summarize relevant work, organize themes and gaps, choose an initial baseline, and publish a structured literature review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lixin97/agora-lab/student-literature
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 LiXin97/agora-lab --skill student-literature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LiXin97/agora-lab

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 395 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 $0.00020 $0.00395
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4b520816419a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

student-literature 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 11d 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/student-literature/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

Student Literature

Student-specific extensions

  • End with Recommended Baselines that names the first baseline to implement.
  • Add Reviewer concerns to pre-empt with the two highest-risk objections.
  • Check shared-references/citation-discipline.md before publishing.

Purpose

Survey existing work on a given topic to establish baselines, identify gaps, and inform hypothesis formulation.

Workflow

  1. Define scope: What specific question or area are you surveying?
  2. Search: Use web search to find relevant papers, blog posts, and codebases
  3. Read and summarize: Extract key contributions, methods, results, and limitations
  4. Synthesize: Identify themes, gaps, and opportunities
  5. Publish: Write structured output to your canonical shared artifact directory: {artifact_dir}/{your-name}/literature_{topic}.md

Output Format

# Literature Survey: {topic}

## Scope
What question this survey answers.

## Key Papers

### {Paper Title} ({Year})
- **Authors**: ...
- **Method**: ...
- **Key Result**: ...
- **Limitation**: ...
- **Relevance**: Why this matters to our research

### {Paper Title} ({Year})
...

## Themes
1. ...

## Gaps & Opportunities
1. ...

## Recommended Baselines
Methods we should compare against:
1. ...

## Reviewer concerns to pre-empt
1. ...
2. ...

## References
- [1] ...

Tips

  • Focus on papers from the last 3 years for ML/AI topics
  • Always note the evaluation metrics used — we'll need to match them
  • Flag any available open-source implementations
  • Note dataset availability for reproducibility
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. 11d ago First seen · 70 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 4b520816419a

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student-literature is a skill published in the GitHub repository LiXin97/agora-lab (49 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 395 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 2026-08-30.