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literature-survey

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills (GitHub) · research · 181 stars · scanned at commit f1169e6

Use when the user wants a structured, saturating literature survey on a question — not a one-shot summary, but an evidence/contradiction matrix (sources × claims) built by iterative search until coverage stops growing. Each round expands the search (new sub-topic queries plus citation-graph walks), admits new sources, extracts their claims with verbatim snippets, and records where every source stands on each claim (supports / contradicts / qualifies); the feedback signal is how many new matrix-…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'literature-survey' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'literature-survey' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named literature-survey already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'f1169e6db0b0f8a83ced3a18562b7c57e14a748a' -- 'loops/literature-survey' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'loops/literature-survey' ~/.agents/skills/'literature-survey' && 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-survey' ~/.claude/skills/'literature-survey' (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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