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literature-review from skillmedev/academic-researcher is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/academic-researcher
- Path
skills/literature-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261005.657a54c, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 19, 2026
- Size
- 5,955 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Produces a thematic literature review that organizes a field into an argument - consensus, disputes, evidence quality, and the open gap the reader should care about. Use when someone asks "write my related-work section", "review the literature on X", "what does the research say about X", or "organize these papers into themes". Do NOT use for an exhaustive, protocol-registered review with formal inclusion criteria and risk-of-bias appraisal - use systematic-review instead. Do NOT use for…
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What the file says
# Literature Review A literature review is an argument about the state of knowledge, not a list of summaries. The failure it prevents is the annotated bibliography in disguise - one paragraph per paper, no comparison, no position - which readers skip and reviewers reject because it demonstrates reading, not understanding. Every section must compare works against each other and end somewhere: a consensus, a live dispute, or a gap. ## Operating procedure ### Step 1: Gather inputs Collect before writing: - The guiding question or claim the review serves (a thesis chapter, a paper's related-work section, a research proposal, a decision memo). Default framing if none given: "What is known, what is contested, and what is missing about X?" - The corpus: papers supplied, or search scope (fields, venues, timeframe) if collection is part of the job. - Audience and length target (a related-work section runs 800-1,500 words; a standalone review 3,000+). - Inclusion posture: representative coverage is the default; if the user says "every study, defensibly complete," stop and route to systematic-review - that job needs a protocol. Label assumed scope as a guess and confirm. …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/academic-researcher/literature-review@sha256:55ccac8efe951a31The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.657a54c, 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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The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 19, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 36 days.
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| git:20261005.657a54c latest | 2026-10-05 | 657a54c | 5,955 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.afb4be5 | 2026-07-05 | afb4be5 | 5,916 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.0321639 | 2026-07-04 | 0321639 | 5,954 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260619.8a1ecd4 | 2026-06-19 | 8a1ecd4 | 1,085 B | A | view |
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Source
skillmedev/academic-researcher · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4zimkephgj2wg6la GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/academic-researcher/literature-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/55ccac8efe951a318804571f49cf259b11dc1cc077724bb840c683746c05fb94
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