write-literature-review

write-literature-review is a skill for Codex from Zsun79/LitReviewSkill. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,178 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A step-by-step workflow for reviewing research papers on a chosen topic. It finds papers through OpenAlex, a scholarly research catalogue, follows citation links, screens results, and ranks the final set.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a literature review: create search terms, find an initial group of papers, trace earlier and later citations, screen abstracts, and repeat the search.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work of finding relevant papers and checking whether important related studies were missed.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to build a literature review: create search terms, find an initial group of papers, trace earlier and later citations, screen abstracts, and repeat the search.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zsun79/litreviewskill/write-literature-review
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 Zsun79/LitReviewSkill --skill write-literature-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zsun79/LitReviewSkill

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,178 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 unknown 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 $0.00095 $0.01178
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00589
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00118

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4ff79cbfd14b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-literature-review 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/build_knowledge_graph.py, scripts/lit_review_pipeline.py), 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/write-literature-review/SKILL.md · 107 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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 · 107 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 4ff79cbfd14b

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write-literature-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zsun79/LitReviewSkill (25 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,178 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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