literature-review-planner

literature-review-planner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 39 tokens per session (3,566 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for literature reviews, which are structured summaries and evaluations of existing research. It covers narrative, systematic, scoping, rapid, umbrella, integrative, and meta-analysis reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan academic literature reviews, research surveys, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, or evidence summaries.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad research topic into a suitable review method, search plan, source-evaluation process, and synthesis approach.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan academic literature reviews, research surveys, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, or evidence summaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/travisjneuman/.claude/literature-review-planner
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 travisjneuman/.claude --skill literature-review-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,566 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00039 $0.03566
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01426
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00713
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00357

Measured 17d ago against content hash 56f7227c54f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

literature-review-planner 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 17d ago.

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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-planner/SKILL.md · 466 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 466 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Literature Review Planner

Comprehensive frameworks for planning, conducting, and synthesizing literature reviews across academic and professional research contexts.

Review Types

Type Purpose Scope Methodology Rigor Best For
Narrative Broad overview of a topic Wide, flexible Low-Medium Background sections, introductions
Systematic Answer a specific research question Narrow, predefined High Evidence-based decisions, clinical practice
Scoping Map available evidence on a topic Wide, structured Medium Emerging fields, identifying gaps
Meta-Analysis Quantitative synthesis of findings Narrow, statistical Highest Combining effect sizes, treatment efficacy
Rapid Timely evidence synthesis Focused, abbreviated Medium Policy decisions, time-constrained contexts
Umbrella Review of existing reviews Reviews only High Overarching evidence synthesis
Integrative Synthesize diverse methodologies Wide, mixed methods Medium Combining qualitative and quantitative

Choosing the Right Review Type

Do you need to answer a specific, focused question?
  YES --> Is quantitative synthesis of effect sizes needed?
    YES --> Meta-Analysis
    NO  --> Systematic Review
  NO --> Do you need to map the breadth of evidence?
    YES --> Is the field well-established?
      YES --> Umbrella Review (review of reviews)
      NO  --> Scoping Review
    NO --> Do you need to combine qualitative and quantitative?
      YES --> Integrative Review
      NO --> Is time constrained (< 3 months)?
        YES --> Rapid Review
        NO  --> Narrative Review

Search Strategy Development

PICO/PEO Framework

Use structured frameworks to define your research question:

Framework Element Description Example
PICO Population Who is being studied Adults with Type 2 diabetes
Intervention What treatment/exposure Telemedicine consultations
Comparison Alternative to intervention In-person consultations
Outcome What is measured HbA1c levels, patient satisfaction
PEO Population Who is being studied Software engineering teams
Exposure Phenomenon of interest Agile methodology adoption
Outcome What is measured Productivity, code quality

Read the full file on GitHub · 466 lines

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  1. 17d ago First seen · 466 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 56f7227c54f7

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literature-review-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (101 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 3,566 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-30.

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