literature-review SKILL.md skillA
literature-review from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/literature-review@git:20261008.697c89fPins git:20261008.697c89f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/literature-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 6, 2026
- Size
- 7,002 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Builds or audits a literature review, producing an evidence map, the closest prior work, source clusters, a gap verdict, and a synthesis plan for the introduction. Use when the user asks whether a contribution is novel, who has studied a question, what the literature establishes, or how to organize a review, or wants a reading list, Zotero export, or pile of papers turned into one. For systematic reviews or meta-analyses it produces the protocol scaffold and routes registration…
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 Review Evidence Mapper ## Heritage and scope This is an original Open Science Skills workflow for experimental and computational social science. It remixes high-level ideas from Cheng-I Wu's *Academic Research Skills for Claude Code* (CC BY-NC 4.0), especially evidence mapping, source verification, and the separation between narrative literature review and formal systematic review. It is not a full ARS pipeline. ## Instructions ### 1. Classify the review task Decide which of these the user needs: - **Narrative/theory review:** organize concepts, mechanisms, and debates for an introduction. - **Design precedent review:** identify prior treatments, measures, samples, estimands, or analysis strategies. - **Contribution audit:** test whether the claimed gap survives contact with the closest prior work. - **Evidence map:** summarize what each study establishes, where it applies, and what remains unresolved. - **Systematic-review escalation:** when the user needs exhaustive search, screening, risk-of-bias, and PRISMA reporting. …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/literature-review@sha256:c4f921cc62e0bb21The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.697c89f, 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 8 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20261008.697c89f latest | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 7,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260917.d88ee2d | 2026-09-17 | d88ee2d | 7,068 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 7,037 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.245a9ea | 2026-08-08 | 245a9ea | 7,075 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260702.539af7b | 2026-07-02 | 539af7b | 6,569 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260610.6572bfb | 2026-06-10 | 6572bfb | 6,569 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260509.985a114 | 2026-05-09 | 985a114 | 6,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.df870bc | 2026-05-06 | df870bc | 6,612 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
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