literature

literature is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw. It costs 0 tokens per session (348 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of literature, MIT.

A system for searching and combining academic papers from sources such as PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, and Semantic Scholar. bioRxiv is a public repository for research papers shared before formal peer review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for literature reviews, citation-based research, finding unanswered questions, and generating hypotheses from published work.
Why use it?
It helps researchers find relevant studies across many databases, avoid duplicate results, and identify gaps in existing knowledge without fabricating citations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for literature reviews, citation-based research, finding unanswered questions, and generating hypotheses from published work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zaoqu-liu/scienceclaw/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 Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw --skill literature
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 348 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.00348
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00174
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00035

Measured 7d ago against content hash 55fbf07bbd27, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to literature — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/literature/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Literature Search & Review

Overview

Comprehensive academic literature search and synthesis across 15+ sources.

Capabilities

  • Multi-database parallel search (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DBLP, CORE, DOAJ, Europe PMC)
  • Web search via Agent-Reach (Exa semantic search, Jina Reader for any URL/PDF)
  • Social academic search (Twitter/X threads, YouTube talks, GitHub repos)
  • Structured literature reviews with citation networks
  • Knowledge gap identification
  • Hypothesis generation from literature analysis

Search Strategy

  1. Query optimization: Short, keyword-based queries (max 7 words). PubMed-friendly syntax.
  2. Multi-source fan-out: Parallel queries across all sources for maximum coverage.
  3. Deduplication: By PMID, DOI, then normalized title.
  4. Reflection loop: Evaluate coverage → identify gaps → generate follow-up queries.

Citation Rules

  • ZERO hallucinated citations. Every reference must come from real search data.
  • Unified article schema: source_type, title, authors, year, journal, url, doi, pmid, abstract.
  • Numbered references [1], [2], [3] — built only from retrieved articles.

Best Practices

  • Start broad, then narrow. First search finds the landscape; follow-up queries fill gaps.
  • Cross-domain search. The breakthrough paper might be in an unexpected field.
  • Check preprints AND published papers. Recent findings may only be on bioRxiv/arXiv.
  • Verify high-impact claims. Use Semantic Scholar's citation count to identify landmark papers.
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. 7d ago First seen · 30 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 55fbf07bbd27

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literature is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zaoqu-Liu/ScienceClaw (60 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 348 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to literature, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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