crux-litsearch SKILL.md skillA
crux-litsearch from mehdiforoozandeh/crux is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mehdiforoozandeh/crux/crux-litsearch@v1.0Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mehdiforoozandeh/crux
- Path
skills/crux-litsearch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 5,045 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Set up a literature search over a crux vault with the PI, in two asks and one approval, and write it to `wiki/lit/<slug>/scope.md` — what the search is for, and the 3–8 papers the PI already trusts, which are what the citation crawl walks outward from. Spends its turns getting the seeds right rather than polishing prose, because the seed set defines the subgraph and a beautiful scope over bad seeds gives a bad list. Lints the file with `crux lit lint`, then stops and hands the PI the exact…
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What the file says
# crux-litsearch — write the scope, then stop A crux wiki's PI curates `raw/` from memory. This skill replaces that with the citation graph's own answer: start from papers the PI already trusts, walk outward, and rank what comes back by how much of the seed set reaches it. You do the conversation and write one file; the engine crawls and ranks. You never run the crawl and never put anything in `raw/` unasked — [crux-wiki](../crux-wiki/SKILL.md)'s rule that the PI alone curates sources holds; they just curate from a computed list, not memory. ## The two asks and the one approval **Ask 1 — what is this search for?** One paragraph in the PI's own words, not a keyword list: it is what they read in a month to remember why these papers. Write what they say, not a tidied version. **Ask 2 — which papers do you already trust?** The ask that matters, and where the turns go. Target **3–8**: fewer and the shared subgraph is whatever one paper happened to cite, more and the seeds stop agreeing on a subject. Take DOIs where the PI has them; where they name a paper instead, resolve it and read the title back before it enters the file — a wrong seed is …
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How to install
mdr add mehdiforoozandeh/crux/crux-litsearch@sha256:621bceeaf4389c84The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 20, 2026.
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| v1.0 latest | 2026-09-20 | b301cc8 | 5,045 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-09-20 | 3b653da | 4,790 B | A | view |
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Source
mehdiforoozandeh/crux · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_njzt6dx52ok5dmiy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mehdiforoozandeh/crux/crux-litsearch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/621bceeaf4389c841022d0a76f12dcf0ea5d6caab13964a667632bb3c351d59a
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