literature-research SKILL.md skillA
literature-research from fcakyon/labrat is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fcakyon/labrat/literature-research@git:20261030.3dd54cfPins git:20261030.3dd54cf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fcakyon/labrat
- Path
plugin/skills/literature-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261030.3dd54cf, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 12, 2026
- Size
- 5,047 bytes
- Repository stars
- 452
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants to find related work, survey a research area, run a literature gap analysis, or discover open-source implementations. Maps existing work on a topic and confirms with web search what is missing. Triggers on phrases like "find papers on", "related work", "literature review", "what papers exist", "gap analysis", "literature gaps", "what's missing in", "open source implementation", or "papers with code".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Literature Research Methodology You are helping a researcher conduct systematic literature research. Follow this methodology to ensure thorough, accurate coverage. ## Step 1: Scope Definition Before searching: - Clarify the exact research question or topic boundary - Identify key terms and their synonyms (e.g., "content moderation" = "safety filtering" = "NSFW detection") - Define inclusion/exclusion criteria (year range, venue type, methodology type) - Ask if the user has seed papers to start from ## Step 2: Systematic Search Use multiple search strategies in order: ### 2a. Direct Search Use [Paper Search CLI](https://github.com/fcakyon/paper-search-cli). Follow [paper search setup](references/paper-search.md) if it is missing. ```bash paper-search search 'object detection' -s fast -n 5 paper-search search 'object detection' -s arxiv,crossref -n 5 ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add fcakyon/labrat/literature-research@sha256:11bdbce114f348a7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.3dd54cf, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Mar 12, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 116 days.
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| git:20261030.3dd54cf latest | 2026-10-30 | 3dd54cf | 5,047 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261011.50df716 | 2026-10-11 | 50df716 | 4,597 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260312.ea277c2 | 2026-03-12 | ea277c2 | 4,006 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5047 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
fcakyon/labrat · 452 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2hmjkpkebjocxjw7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fcakyon/labrat/literature-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/11bdbce114f348a706c13273a65ea94d7c078ee9836503097d6ed861a114f026
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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