literature-review SKILL.md skillA
literature-review from k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/literature-review@v1.11Pins v1.11 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
- Path
skills/literature-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- v1.11, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 26, 2026
- Size
- 12,869 bytes
- Repository stars
- 53,159
- License
- MIT
Conducts systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews using PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, and other appropriate sources. Use for research synthesis, reproducible literature searches, screening, citation checking, or preparing Markdown and PDF reviews. Tracks search coverage, records versus studies, and evidence limitations; supports meta-analysis planning but does not supply a meta-analysis engine.
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 ## Overview Conduct systematic, comprehensive literature reviews following rigorous academic methodology. Search multiple literature databases, synthesize findings thematically, verify all citations for accuracy, and generate professional output documents in markdown and PDF formats. Use discipline-appropriate bibliographic databases for the reproducible search, with **parallel-web** (`parallel-cli search`) for scoping and supplementary discovery. Ranked web results and extracted excerpts cannot establish exhaustive coverage or substitute for full-text assessment. Bundled scripts process normalized records, check DOI registration, and render documents; they do not run a complete systematic review automatically. ## When to Use This Skill Use this skill when: - Conducting a systematic literature review for research or publication - Synthesizing current knowledge on a specific topic across multiple sources - Performing meta-analysis or scoping reviews - Writing the literature review section of a research paper or thesis - Investigating the state of the art in a research domain - Identifying research gaps and future directions …
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How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/literature-review@sha256:16a9e85bcdcb9bb8The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.11, 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_sj6eig5zlk2tsmh6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jul 26, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 10 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
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| v1.11 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 12,869 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.10 | 2026-09-30 | a0aea74 | 14,136 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.9 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 14,135 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.8 | 2026-09-02 | 1e5eeff | 13,659 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.7 | 2026-07-31 | 4226ca8 | 12,701 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.6 | 2026-07-31 | bd99c01 | 12,701 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.5 | 2026-07-29 | f1b60f8 | 12,698 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-07-26 | 2f2022d | 12,698 B | B | 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 (12869 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
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 53,159 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sj6eig5zlk2tsmh6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/literature-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/16a9e85bcdcb9bb859e1646bf836e51b22900445ba2e367d8d75be05b5a5cba8
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