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literature-review
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By davila7/claude-code-templates (GitHub) · research · 33,523 stars · scanned at commit 06e6072
Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
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- cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 201
cp assets/review_template.md my_literature_review.md - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 259
python scripts/verify_citations.py my_literature_review.md - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 285
python scripts/generate_pdf.py my_literature_review.md \ - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 323
gget search pubmed "CRISPR gene editing" -l 100 - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 341
gget search biorxiv "CRISPR sickle cell" -l 50 - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 467
cp assets/review_template.md crispr_sickle_cell_review.md - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 573
pip install requests # For citation verification - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 579
brew install pandoc # macOS - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/SKILL.md, line 589
python scripts/generate_pdf.py --check-deps - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/scripts/generate_pdf.py, line 46
subprocess.run(['pandoc', '--version'], capture_output=True, check=True) - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/scripts/generate_pdf.py, line 47
except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, FileNotFoundError): - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/scripts/generate_pdf.py, line 91
result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, check=True) - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/scripts/generate_pdf.py, line 94
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/scripts/generate_pdf.py, line 110
subprocess.run(cmd.split(), capture_output=True, check=True) - cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review/scripts/generate_pdf.py, line 112
except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, FileNotFoundError):
Downloads and installs other software
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Connects to the internet
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.
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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' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'literature-review' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named literature-review already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '06e607224df7801b50327114852ad82d9967e0a5' -- 'cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'cli-tool/components/skills/scientific/literature-review' ~/.agents/skills/'literature-review' && 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' ~/.claude/skills/'literature-review' (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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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-14 | 06e6072 | 77 |
| 2026-11-10 | a6e6f93 | 77 |
| 2026-11-08 | b086f26 | 77 |
| 2026-11-07 | 395f30e | 77 |