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literature-review-tools

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By brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584

Recommend AND run open-source AI tools, agents, Claude Code / Codex skills, and MCP servers for any stage of a literature review — searching, reading, extracting, synthesizing, screening, citation-checking, and paper writing. Use when the user asks "what tool should I use to..." OR "install/run/use <tool> to ..." for research/lit-review work: automating a survey or related-work section, PDF→Markdown extraction for LLMs (MinerU/marker/docling), PRISMA / systematic review (ASReview), citation-bac…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'literature-review-tools' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'literature-review-tools' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named literature-review-tools already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/71-brycewang-lit-review-agent-tools/literature-review-tools' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/71-brycewang-lit-review-agent-tools/literature-review-tools' ~/.agents/skills/'literature-review-tools' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'literature-review-tools' ~/.claude/skills/'literature-review-tools' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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