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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os
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- git:20260715.38d79be, committed Jul 15, 2026
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- MIT
Find, verify, and synthesize scientific literature — from "what's the seminal paper for X" through full multi-source reviews. Covers grounding claims in real retrieved sources, avoiding fabricated citations, handling retractions, and calibrating confidence to evidence strength.
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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. ## 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 take this as asking about human RCT evidence; the animal literature is separate." Ask a clarifier only when the answer would genuinely change what you do. ## Grounding: retrieve first, then write …
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Source
pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
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