literature-review SKILL.md skillA
literature-review from xuzhougeng/wisp-science is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add xuzhougeng/wisp-science/literature-review@git:20260908.31cc945Pins git:20260908.31cc945 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- xuzhougeng/wisp-science
- Path
skills/literature-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260908.31cc945, committed Sep 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 1, 2026
- Size
- 6,785 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,052
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Retrieve, verify, and synthesize scientific literature. Use for seminal-paper lookups, evidence summaries, method comparisons, and gap analyses. Every citation must come from a live lookup, never from memory; retractions are checked; the deliverable is argued prose with resolvable DOI links.
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
Work through six steps: scope, sweep, expand, verify, write, lint. The failure
modes this skill exists to prevent are all silent — a fabricated DOI, a
retracted headline result, a reading list dressed up as a synthesis — so each
step below names the check that catches it.
## 1. Scope the request
Different phrasings want different deliverables:
| Request shape | Deliverable |
|---|---|
| "the paper for X" / "the original/seminal…" | one or two primary citations |
| "what's the evidence on X" | thematic synthesis |
| "compare A and B" | trade-off analysis ending in a recommendation |
| "where are the gaps" | named gaps, each anchored to what establishes it |
A vague lay query gets the scope a domain expert would default to, stated
explicitly ("taking this as human RCT evidence; animal work is separate").
Clarify with the user only when the answer would change what you retrieve.
## 2. Sweep
Never write from recall. Recall chooses the framing and the search terms;
retrieval supplies every citation. Start with `search_openalex` /
`crossref_lookup` from this skill's `runtime.py`, a PubMed query, or any
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add xuzhougeng/wisp-science/literature-review@sha256:2540eb798eca3771The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.31cc945, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jul 1, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026, about one every 14 days.
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| git:20260908.31cc945 latest | 2026-09-08 | 31cc945 | 6,785 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.81e61bf | 2026-09-08 | 81e61bf | 6,782 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.42573eb | 2026-08-16 | 42573eb | 6,350 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260801.92066a8 | 2026-08-01 | 92066a8 | 11,042 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.77e7d29 | 2026-07-21 | 77e7d29 | 10,782 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260701.17c5369 | 2026-07-01 | 17c5369 | 10,814 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 (6785 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
xuzhougeng/wisp-science · 1,052 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p42o42knl664agmy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=xuzhougeng/wisp-science/literature-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2540eb798eca377139c67693791aa4697dd27a08c36160045d47a1f07983a7e6
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