review-literature

review-literature is a skill for Claude Code from SebastianElvis/reaper. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,089 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A literature-review tool that finds related academic papers, reads important ones, and organises what they show. A literature review is a structured summary of existing research on a topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find prior art, related papers, known results, and alternative approaches for a research topic.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching for prior work and helps reveal competing methods and unanswered questions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the reaper plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find prior art, related papers, known results, and alternative approaches for a research topic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sebastianelvis/reaper/review-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 SebastianElvis/reaper --skill review-literature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SebastianElvis/reaper

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reaper, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,089 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 $0.00045 $0.03089
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01545
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00618
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00309

Measured 12d ago against content hash 94fb8267175a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-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 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/review-literature/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Literature

Search for related academic work, download and deeply read the most important papers, and produce a structured literature survey organized by relationship to the research goal.

Usage

Invoke this skill by name with the research topic as a quoted string. On slash-command hosts, prefix with / (e.g. /review-literature "<topic>").

review-literature "post-quantum threshold signatures"

Instructions

1. Gather Context

Read reaper-workspace/notes/paper-summary.md if it exists. Extract:

  • Key technical terms and concepts
  • Author names (to find their other work)
  • Cited works mentioned in the introduction
  • The specific problem domain

Combine with the research goal to formulate search queries.

2. Search — Structured Sources (Primary)

Delegate all paper search to the /search-paper skill. It decides which archives to hit (arXiv, IACR ePrint, …), which categories or filters apply for the topic, and returns structured results the caller can merge. The caller's job is to supply good queries, not pick archives.

Query types (generate at least one query per type):

  • Direct: the exact problem (e.g., "BFT consensus communication complexity lower bound")
  • Author-based: key authors in the area (e.g., "Yin Malkhi Abraham consensus")
  • Technique-based: the proof/construction technique (e.g., "simulation-based security threshold signatures")
  • Problem variants: related problems (e.g., "asynchronous Byzantine agreement", "partial synchrony consensus")
  • Attacks/impossibilities: known negative results (e.g., "FLP impossibility", "DLS lower bound")
  • Surveys: SoK papers, systematization of knowledge (e.g., "SoK blockchain consensus")

Spawn parallel subagents (using your host's parallel-spawn primitive — e.g. Claude Code's Agent tool — or run sequentially if unavailable) for concurrent search — one subagent per query type, each invoking /search-paper. Run the WebSearch fallback (step 3) as an additional parallel subagent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. 12d ago First seen · 214 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 94fb8267175a

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review-literature is a skill published in the GitHub repository SebastianElvis/reaper (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,089 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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