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literature-review

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills (GitHub) · research · 57,146 stars · scanned at commit 2d2065f

Conducts systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews using PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, and other appropriate sources. Use for research synthesis, reproducible literature searches, screening, citation checking, or preparing Markdown and PDF reviews. Tracks search coverage, records versus studies, and evidence limitations; supports meta-analysis planning but does not supply a meta-analysis engine.

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' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'literature-review' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named literature-review already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '2d2065fb4520fa3f3f2bcf61cff26ec8b7eba4b5' -- 'skills/literature-review' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'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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• K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/skills/literature-review