literature-review

literature-review is a skill for Claude Code from muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,568 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing and combining existing academic research on a topic. It covers narrative, systematic, scoping, integrative, critical, and dissertation literature reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a review type, plan searches and inclusion rules, organise sources by themes or time, critique methods, synthesise findings, and structure a literature-review chapter.
Why use it?
It helps move beyond listing source summaries by showing how to compare evidence, assess research quality, identify gaps, and build an argument. A systematic review is a reproducible search and selection of all relevant evidence for a defined question.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the academic-writer plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a review type, plan searches and inclusion rules, organise sources by themes or time, critique methods, synthesise findings, and structure a literature-review chapter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/literature-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill literature-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-writer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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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.

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skills/literature-review/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

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Literature Review

A literature review is not a summary parade — it is a critical, synthesising argument that demonstrates your command of the existing discourse and carves out the intellectual space your own research will occupy.


Types of Literature Reviews

Type Purpose Structure
Narrative Review Broad synthesis and critical discussion of a field Thematic or chronological; author-led
Systematic Review Exhaustive, reproducible survey of all evidence on a question PRISMA protocol; strict inclusion/exclusion
Scoping Review Map the breadth of a topic; identify gaps PRISMA-ScR; broader scope than systematic
Literature Review Chapter (Dissertation) Contextualise your own study; establish the gap Funnel structure: broad → specific
Integrative Review Synthesise diverse methodologies Theory-building focus
Critical Review Evaluate quality and contribution of a body of work Argumentative; includes critique of methods

Narrative Literature Review — Structure

The Funnel Model (Standard Dissertation Chapter)

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Broad theoretical context          │  (What does the field broadly know?)
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Key themes and debates             │  (What are the major arguments?)
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Specific studies relevant to you   │  (What evidence exists closest to your topic?)
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Research gap                       │  (What is still unknown or contested?)
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
│  Your study's positioning           │  (How does your study address this gap?)
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

Thematic Organisation (Preferred over Chronological)

Organise sources by theme/concept, not by author or publication date:

  • Group sources that agree with each other
  • Group sources that disagree or complicate each other
  • Each theme = one section with its own mini-argument

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

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literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,568 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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