research-lit

research-lit is a skill for Claude Code from raja21068/AutoResearch. It costs 48 tokens per session (6,260 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A literature-review workflow for finding research papers, understanding their main ideas, and summarizing related work. It can search online sources and scan a local collection of PDF papers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers on a topic, review related work, summarize papers, and examine PDFs already stored in a project.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of discovering relevant studies and comparing them when starting or documenting research.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 tools/deepxiv_fetch.py search "QUERY" --max 10.

Good fit Use it to find papers on a topic, review related work, summarize papers, and examine PDFs already stored in a project.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raja21068/AutoResearch
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raja21068/autoresearch/research-lit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,260 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00048 $0.06260
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.03130
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00626

Measured 8d ago against content hash a2af2b3e24f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

research-lit scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

[ -z "$SCRIPT" ] && SCRIPT=$(find ~/.claude/skills/arxiv/ -name "arxiv_fetch.py" 2>/dev/null | head -1)
skills/aris/research-lit/SKILL.md · 427 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 427 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Literature Review

Research topic: $ARGUMENTS

Constants

  • REVIEWER_BACKEND = codex — Default: Codex MCP (xhigh). Override with — reviewer: oracle-pro for GPT-5.4 Pro via Oracle MCP. See shared-references/reviewer-routing.md.
  • PAPER_LIBRARY — Local directory containing user's paper collection (PDFs). Check these paths in order:
    1. papers/ in the current project directory
    2. literature/ in the current project directory
    3. Custom path specified by user in CLAUDE.md under ## Paper Library
  • MAX_LOCAL_PAPERS = 20 — Maximum number of local PDFs to scan (read first 3 pages each). If more are found, prioritize by filename relevance to the topic.
  • ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = false — When true, download top 3-5 most relevant arXiv PDFs to PAPER_LIBRARY after search. When false (default), only fetch metadata (title, abstract, authors) via arXiv API — no files are downloaded.
  • ARXIV_MAX_DOWNLOAD = 5 — Maximum number of PDFs to download when ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = true.

💡 Overrides:

  • /research-lit "topic" — paper library: ~/my_papers/ — custom local PDF path
  • /research-lit "topic" — sources: zotero, local — only search Zotero + local PDFs
  • /research-lit "topic" — sources: zotero — only search Zotero
  • /research-lit "topic" — sources: web — only search the web (skip all local)
  • /research-lit "topic" — sources: web, semantic-scholar — also search Semantic Scholar for published venue papers (IEEE, ACM, etc.)
  • /research-lit "topic" — sources: deepxiv — only search via DeepXiv progressive retrieval
  • /research-lit "topic" — sources: all, deepxiv — use default sources plus DeepXiv
  • /research-lit "topic" — arxiv download: true — download top relevant arXiv PDFs
  • /research-lit "topic" — arxiv download: true, max download: 10 — download up to 10 PDFs

Data Sources

This skill checks multiple sources in priority order. All are optional — if a source is not configured or not requested, skip it silently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 427 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. 8d ago First seen · 427 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B a2af2b3e24f8

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research-lit is a skill published in the GitHub repository raja21068/AutoResearch (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 6,260 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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