precise-literature-search SKILL.md skillA
precise-literature-search from alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed/precise-literature-search@v1.0.37Pins v1.0.37 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed
- Path
skills/community/precise-literature-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.37, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 31,659 bytes
- Repository stars
- 37
- License
- Apache-2.0
Iteratively search a precise research question, present candidate papers for review and selection, download authorized full texts, verify PDFs, and synthesize evidence grounded in the verified files. Use when the user emphasizes finding specific papers to answer specific research questions that may need fulltext screening. It may run unattended when explicitly requested after this skill is selected. Do not use when the user primarily wants an autonomous narrative literature review, asks broad…
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What the file says
# Precise Literature Search Turn a research question into relevant papers and an evidence-based answer. Clarify the research intent, search scholarly metadata and the public web, review candidates, retrieve authorized full texts, and synthesize the verified evidence into a cited report. Support interactive review and explicitly requested autonomous execution, with saved artifacts for refinement and resume. ## Conversation intake This skill owns its retrieval-specific clarification and confirmation; do not run the host's general research clarification loop first. Preserve the original request and actual user answers. Summarize explicit topic, dates, count, paper types and hard conditions, leaving optional fields unspecified. Follow [intent clarification](modules/intent/clarification.md) for the question contract. Host context never bypasses the mandatory start confirmation or authorizes auto mode, result acceptance or downloads. ## Before starting — mandatory confirmation Before running any command, tell the user in their language that this workflow may take substantial time and involve multiple rounds of clue resolution, paper retrieval, downloading, and evidence screening. …
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How to install
mdr add alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed/precise-literature-search@sha256:2716abff1648effcThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.37, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_eufazf4udiusb2uo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 42 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.37 latest | 2026-11-03 | d1437c6 | 31,659 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.11 | 2026-09-22 | 483c35d | 16,321 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (31659 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
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed · 37 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eufazf4udiusb2uo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alibaba-damo-academy/scholarseed/precise-literature-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2716abff1648effc2da478777aa05e1f33a2c960c6d0e35c7f22325e91036081
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