litreview SKILL.md skillA
litreview from ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/litreview@git:20261008.31316aaPins git:20261008.31316aa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow
- Path
skills/litreview/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261008.31316aa, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 15, 2026
- Size
- 18,581 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Find and synthesize the literature on a topic or research question, returning a ranked reading list with a takeaway per paper. TRIGGER on "lit review", "find papers on X", "what is the literature on Y", "recent work on Z", "who has studied W", "find references for my intro", or a topic plus a scope phrase ("since 2022", "Marketing Science only"). One paper the user already has is reading-papers.
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
# litreview
Turn a topic into a ranked, deduped, honestly-scoped reading list, with a one-paragraph takeaway
per paper and a synthesis of what the cluster says. The output is what the user reads before
deciding what to cite.
## Boundary with reading-papers
This skill starts from a question and ends with a set of papers. The `reading-papers` skill starts
from one known paper and ends with its text. If the user hands over a DOI, a link, a title, or an
author name and wants that thing read, stop here and use `reading-papers`.
The two share machinery. Discovery here is `paper.py search`, reading here is `paper.py get`, and
both live in the `reading-papers` skill directory. Read
`~/.claude/skills/reading-papers/SKILL.md` before the reading phase if you have not
already; it owns the access ladder and the honesty rules that apply to every summary this skill
emits.
## Scope the question first
A one-word topic gives a one-word answer. Before searching, pin down the actual question and the
year window if the user implied one. Ask if the request is bare ("do a lit review"). Do not guess
a topic.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/litreview@sha256:6472b365f2e1cc1eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.31316aa, 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_jzjab7o37s6gyguj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between May 15, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 21 days.
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| git:20261008.31316aa latest | 2026-10-08 | 31316aa | 18,581 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.62bb1e7 | 2026-10-07 | 62bb1e7 | 17,054 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.b89bc04 | 2026-09-14 | b89bc04 | 15,498 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.5fdf457 | 2026-09-02 | 5fdf457 | 15,222 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.039723a | 2026-08-28 | 039723a | 13,464 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.fad6178 | 2026-08-04 | fad6178 | 14,058 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.37a3f77 | 2026-07-27 | 37a3f77 | 14,051 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260515.605c1c3 | 2026-05-15 | 605c1c3 | 11,702 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (18581 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
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow · 25 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jzjab7o37s6gyguj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/litreview GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6472b365f2e1cc1e232de19cb9b8f94cd4d50291d49e517ea7267c81a0df7503
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