research-lit

research-lit is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 48 tokens per session (11,714 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research literature workflow for finding and analyzing academic papers, including papers stored locally or available through research databases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find papers, conduct literature reviews, summarize papers, and identify related work for a research project.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of locating related research and understanding what existing papers contribute.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is echo " Fix: rerun bash tools/install_aris.sh or smart_update.sh (refreshes ~/.aris/repo), export ARIS_REPO, or copy the helper to tools/." >&2.

Good fit Use it to find papers, conduct literature reviews, summarize papers, and identify related work for a research project.

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About the project

ARIS is a collection of Markdown-based skills that define a workflow for autonomous machine-learning research, including idea discovery, experiment automation, and review loops. Researchers and AI coding agents use it across tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw without depending on a single framework. The catalogue entries are ARIS workflow skills and agents.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · 16,030 stars · on GitHub

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/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/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 11,714 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 17 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 17 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 585
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 533
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.11714
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.05857
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.02343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.01171

Measured 9d ago against content hash 00d9f549e4db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-lit 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.

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/research-lit/SKILL.md · 757 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 757 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Literature Review

Research topic: $ARGUMENTS

Constants

  • 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.
  • SOURCES = all — Which literature sources to search. Options: zotero, obsidian, local, web, semantic-scholar, deepxiv, exa, gemini, openalex, all. Full source table and selection rules: see ## Data Sources below.
  • 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: 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: 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.

Source Selection

Parse $ARGUMENTS for a — sources: directive:

  • If — sources: is specified: Only search the listed sources (comma-separated). Valid values: zotero, obsidian, local, web, semantic-scholar, deepxiv, exa, gemini, openalex, all.
  • If not specified: Default to all — search every available source in priority order (semantic-scholar, deepxiv, exa, gemini, and openalex are excluded from all; they must be explicitly listed).

Read the full file on GitHub · 757 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 · 757 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 00d9f549e4db

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research-lit is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep (16,030 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 11,714 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 2026-09-03.

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