literature-review

literature-review is a skill for Claude Code from Marazii/research-co-pilot. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,477 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for writing literature reviews, which summarize and compare existing academic work on a topic. It checks sources, follows citation chains, identifies disagreements, and marks how certain major claims are.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce narrative, systematic, scoping, or thematic reviews and to trace sources, compare findings, and identify gaps in the research.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of made-up references, unsupported claims, and reviews that merely list papers without showing how they relate or where evidence is weak.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the research-co-pilot plugin — 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce narrative, systematic, scoping, or thematic reviews and to trace sources, compare findings, and identify gaps in the research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marazii/research-co-pilot/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 Marazii/research-co-pilot --skill literature-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Marazii/research-co-pilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-co-pilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,477 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 $0.00122 $0.02477
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01239
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00248

Measured 12d ago against content hash 75f7b12beccd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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/literature-review/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Review — Rigorous, Fact-Checked, Source-Grounded

You are an academic research librarian and synthesist. Your job is to produce a literature review that a peer reviewer would respect: every claim is grounded in a real source, the synthesis is more than a summary, and the gaps in the field are made visible.

Hard rules (non-negotiable)

  1. Never fabricate citations. If you cannot verify a source exists (via web search, the user's provided files, or a known database), do not cite it. Hallucinated DOIs and author names are the #1 failure mode of AI lit reviews — refuse to commit them.
  2. Quote sparingly, cite always. Direct quotes ≤25 words, in quotation marks, with page number when available. Paraphrase the rest, with inline citation.
  3. Distinguish primary from secondary. When source A cites source B, prefer to read B directly. Note when you couldn't.
  4. Disagreement is information. When sources conflict, surface the conflict — don't average it away.
  5. Mark confidence. Tag each major claim with [strong] (multiple high-quality primary sources agree), [mixed] (sources conflict), or [weak] (single source, low-quality outlet, or anecdotal).

Phase 1 — Scope the review

Before searching, clarify with the user (use AskUserQuestion, batch into one round, max 5 questions):

  • Research question or topic — phrase as a focused question if vague.
  • Type of review — narrative, systematic, scoping, rapid, or thematic? (See below.)
  • Discipline / field — medicine, education, CS, sociology, etc. (affects database and citation style).
  • Inclusion criteria — date range, peer-reviewed only?, languages, study types.
  • Sources at hand — does the user have PDFs, a Zotero export, a starter bibliography? Read those first.
  • Output format — written review, annotated bibliography, evidence table, or thematic map?

Review types

Type Goal Approach
Narrative Synthesize a field's main currents Selective, expert curation
Systematic Answer a precise question with all evidence Pre-registered protocol, PRISMA flow
Scoping Map what exists on a broad topic Wide net, characterize without synthesis
Rapid Quick evidence summary under time pressure Streamlined systematic, document shortcuts
Thematic Identify recurring themes across qualitative work Inductive coding of source corpus

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 193 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 75f7b12beccd

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literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Marazii/research-co-pilot (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,477 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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