literature-review

literature-review is a skill for Claude Code from Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills. It costs 82 tokens per session (2,841 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of literature-review, MIT.

A workflow for carrying out a systematic literature review, which is a structured search and analysis of existing research. It searches academic sources such as PubMed, arXiv, and bioRxiv, a server for sharing biology research before formal peer review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search multiple research databases, verify citations, combine findings by theme, find research gaps, and prepare review documents in Markdown or PDF.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of missing relevant studies or using incorrect citations when researching a scientific topic. It also helps organize evidence for reviews, meta-analyses, and research papers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to search multiple research databases, verify citations, combine findings by theme, find research gaps, and prepare review documents in Markdown or PDF.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills/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 Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills --skill literature-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,841 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00082 $0.02841
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.01136
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00568
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00284

Measured 16d ago against content hash 16a9e85bcdcb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 16d 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to literature-review — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/kdense-scicomm-selected/subskills/k-dense/literature-review/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Review

Overview

Conduct systematic, comprehensive literature reviews following rigorous academic methodology. Search multiple literature databases, synthesize findings thematically, verify all citations for accuracy, and generate professional output documents in markdown and PDF formats.

Use discipline-appropriate bibliographic databases for the reproducible search, with parallel-web (parallel-cli search) for scoping and supplementary discovery. Ranked web results and extracted excerpts cannot establish exhaustive coverage or substitute for full-text assessment. Bundled scripts process normalized records, check DOI registration, and render documents; they do not run a complete systematic review automatically.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Conducting a systematic literature review for research or publication
  • Synthesizing current knowledge on a specific topic across multiple sources
  • Performing meta-analysis or scoping reviews
  • Writing the literature review section of a research paper or thesis
  • Investigating the state of the art in a research domain
  • Identifying research gaps and future directions
  • Requiring verified citations and professional formatting

Figures and PRISMA reporting

For systematic reviews, use the appropriate PRISMA 2020 flow template and reconciled screening counts. Distinguish records, reports, and studies, including reports not retrieved and reasons for full-text exclusions. Use tables or deterministic plotting for exact numbers, effect estimates, and risk-of-bias results.

Conceptual schematics are optional. The bundled generator needs OPENROUTER_API_KEY and creates a PNG draft with up to two generation/review iterations:

python scripts/generate_schematic.py "Conceptual evidence map; labels from the reviewed extraction table" \
  -o figures/evidence_map.png --doc-type journal --iterations 2

Generation uses OpenRouter's POST /api/v1/images with google/gemini-3.1-flash-image; review uses POST /api/v1/chat/completions with google/gemini-3.7-flash. The output path must end in .png. Inspect labels, counts, arrows, and accessibility yourself: success means an image was saved, whereas quality_met, final_reviewed, and termination_reason in the review log describe the automated review. Neither proves scientific accuracy. A failed refinement preserves the previous draft. Check current model availability before running paid generation; do not fabricate study counts in an image prompt.

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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. 16d ago Changed · -51 lines · -4 tokens per session scan C → A 16a9e85bcdcb
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +17 lines 950a6d0863ef
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 264 lines · 86 tokens per session scan C bb80853650e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,841 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to literature-review, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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