literature-review SKILL.md skillA
literature-review from emaballarin/ccplugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add emaballarin/ccplugins/literature-review@git:20261003.faedaf3Pins git:20261003.faedaf3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- emaballarin/ccplugins
- Path
plugins/ccscience/skills/literature-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261003.faedaf3, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 6, 2026
- Size
- 19,899 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Find, verify, and synthesize STEM literature across every field — from "what's the seminal paper for X" through full multi-source reviews. Treats journal articles, arXiv/preprints, and conference proceedings as first-class; grounds every claim in a retrieved source, never fabricates DOIs, checks for superseded/withdrawn/refuted work, calibrates confidence to evidence strength (including SOTA/reproduction/ablation caveats for CS and ML), and emits a tidy DOI-pinned BibTeX reference list. Pairs…
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 A literature question has two halves: finding the papers a domain expert would point to, and turning them into something more useful than a reading list — a synthesis that says what's established, what's contested, what's new, and where the holes are. Both halves can fail quietly and look like competent output until someone checks. This covers all of STEM — a machine-learning benchmark result, a distributed-systems protocol, a materials-synthesis route, and a clinical trial are all in scope, and the same discipline applies to each: retrieve before you write, ground every claim in a real record, never invent an identifier. ## Read the request for what it's actually asking "What's the paper for X" wants one or two specific citations; "what's the evidence on X" wants a synthesis; "compare A and B" wants a comparison, not two adjacent summaries; "where are the gaps" wants the gaps, with the survey as supporting material. A two-word lay query wants you to choose the scope a domain expert would default to and say so up front — "I'll read this as the transformer _architecture_ paper, not the earlier attention mechanism it builds on" or "I'll take this as human RCT… …
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How to install
mdr add emaballarin/ccplugins/literature-review@sha256:d4a84ddd198fa504The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.faedaf3, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20261003.faedaf3 latest | 2026-10-03 | faedaf3 | 19,899 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.57562ed | 2026-09-02 | 57562ed | 19,866 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260707.ea17946 | 2026-07-07 | ea17946 | 19,802 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260706.a813f88 | 2026-07-06 | a813f88 | 19,710 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260706.7859491 | 2026-07-06 | 7859491 | 19,675 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
emaballarin/ccplugins · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gmoshq4b5ve62m6l GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emaballarin/ccplugins/literature-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d4a84ddd198fa5047ea7d8b90b3f396aa2a11e0a06399e9aeb0540b1af4a45c5
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