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literature-review

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By hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins (GitHub) · research · 1,573 stars · scanned at commit 70b6a3a

Runs systematic literature reviews by searching PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, and Semantic Scholar (plus web search via parallel-cli), screening studies, extracting data, synthesizing themes, and verifying citations with verify_citations.py. Produces a markdown and PDF review with a PRISMA-style flow diagram and a bibliography in APA, Nature, or Vancouver style. Use when conducting a systematic or scoping review, synthesizing research on a topic, writing the literature review section of a paper or th…

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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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '70b6a3a3a7c774671e45af646306e1448baf0511' -- 'plugins/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/skills/literature-review' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/skills/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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