self-surveying-literature SKILL.md skillA
self-surveying-literature from chgagne/claude-skills-research is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/self-surveying-literature@git:20261009.6f52569Pins git:20261009.6f52569 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- chgagne/claude-skills-research
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- git:20261009.6f52569, committed Oct 9, 2026
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- MIT
Audit a research paper draft (LaTeX sources + .bib) for related work it should cite but does not, above all close prior work that undermines its novelty claims. Searches Semantic Scholar, arXiv, DBLP and Crossref, follows citation graphs, verifies every hit, and produces a prioritized, evidence-backed report plus BibTeX. Use when asked to find missing references/citations, check related-work coverage, test a novelty claim against prior art, do a pre-submission literature check, or anticipate…
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
# Self-surveying literature: what should this draft cite but doesn't? Act as the best-read reviewer the paper will get. The deliverable is a short, verified, prioritized list of missing papers. Each one comes with the reason a reviewer would raise it and where it belongs in the draft. It is not a dump of search hits. Missing one paper that threatens the novelty claim costs the authors more than ten marginal "could also cite" suggestions, so put recall effort into finding close prior work and put precision effort into what you report. ## Non-negotiables 1. **No paper from memory.** Every reported paper must come from an API record retrieved in this session (S2, arXiv, DBLP, Crossref). Memory is welcome for deciding *what to look for*. If you think "Smith et al. did this around 2019", run `s2.py match "<title>"` or search for it, and use the retrieved metadata. 2. **Read before you claim.** Read the abstract of every paper you report. Before calling a paper a novelty threat, read its method section in the full text. A title alone is never enough. 3. **Make sure it is really missing.** The draft may already cite another version (arXiv vs. …
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How to install
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/self-surveying-literature@sha256:b0539b5b2feabba7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.6f52569, 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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Source
chgagne/claude-skills-research · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_b47yqqljd2ni6dii GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chgagne/claude-skills-research/self-surveying-literature GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b0539b5b2feabba78b73389c3709b38953db4056a30e7727d4d20267b919994b
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