literature-survey

literature-survey is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m. It costs 64 tokens per session (2,061 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for writing a comprehensive literature survey, which is a structured overview of existing research on a topic. It produces a PDF with cited sources, classifications, and summary figures.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps expand a bibliography, group papers into a taxonomy, build timelines and comparison tables, and prepare a LaTeX-based survey.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of finding, organising, and checking a large body of research before writing the survey.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for aider.

Good fit It helps expand a bibliography, group papers into a taxonomy, build timelines and comparison tables, and prepare a LaTeX-based survey.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m/literature-survey
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 ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m --skill literature-survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,061 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 $0.00064 $0.02061
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01030
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00206

Measured 9d ago against content hash d2a7e39d2f08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

literature-survey 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (templates/survey/compile.sh), 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.

skills/literature-survey/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Survey

Overview

End-to-end literature survey builder. Single stage, full quality from the start. The agent (Claude Code / Cursor / Aider / Codex / …) does the entire build using its own tools (WebFetch, WebSearch, Write, Bash). This SKILL is procedure + reference playbooks + LaTeX template — no Python runtime, no LLM SDK.

The substantive work is decomposed into reference playbooks under references/:

Reference Topic
references/00-incremental-execution.md how to actually do this without losing work: batch sizes, persistence, resume — read first
references/01-bibliography-expansion.md grow bibliography.bib to 60+ real entries (100+ recommended) via WebFetch (no memory)
references/02-survey-figures.md taxonomy / timeline / coverage-matrix / area-map figures
references/03-survey-section-playbook.md per-section structure for survey-shaped papers
references/04-layout-discipline.md tables, figures, floats, cross-refs, author + disclosure footnote
references/05-quality-gate.md self-check before delivery

Read the relevant reference before writing, not after. The full pass does not fit in a single turn — references/00-incremental-execution.md is the only execution mode that completes.

When to Use

  • User asks for a "survey" / "review" on a specific topic.
  • User has a research topic and wants a structured map of the field with citations.
  • User needs background reading curated for a thesis chapter or grant section.

When NOT to Use

  • User wants original research with experiments → paper-writer.
  • User wants only an outline / topic exploration → research-explorer.
  • User wants experiment code → experiment-suite.
  • Topic is too broad (e.g., "all of AI") — narrow it before starting.

Workflow

Step 1 — Understand the topic and scope

Confirm with the user:

  • Topic — specific research area (e.g., "federated learning in healthcare"). If too broad, narrow it first.
  • Scope — broad survey of a field vs. focused review of a sub-area.
  • Citation budget — minimum 60 unique entries; aim for 100+ (push higher for a broad survey).
  • Language — default Chinese in conversation; the LaTeX paper is English unless requested otherwise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 9d ago First seen · 157 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A d2a7e39d2f08

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literature-survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository ssmurfgg04-gif/context-m (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,061 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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