literature-review SKILL.md skillA
literature-review from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/literature-review@v1.0.1Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mathews-tom/armory
- Path
skills/literature-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.1, committed Apr 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 26, 2026
- Size
- 10,406 bytes
- Repository stars
- 334
- License
- MIT
Systematic literature review workflow: scope, search (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar), screen, extract, synthesize, and identify gaps. Triggers on: "literature review", "survey the literature", "related work", "systematic review", "synthesize the research", "find papers about", "research gap analysis".
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 Systematic discovery, extraction, and synthesis of academic research on a defined topic. ## When to use this skill vs. others | Need | Skill | | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | Survey a research area, synthesize multiple papers | **literature-review** (this skill) | | Critique a single paper's methodology and claims | research-critique | | Audit a manuscript's formatting, structure, citations | manuscript-review | | Verify a manuscript's numbers trace to code | manuscript-provenance | | Search arXiv for papers matching a query | arxiv-search (utility) | ## Workflow ### Phase 1: Scope Definition Before searching, establish the review boundaries: 1. **Research question** — What specific question does the review answer? Vague topics produce vague reviews. "What techniques exist for X" is weaker than "How do methods for X compare on metric Y across domains Z?" 2. **Inclusion criteria** — Define what counts: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/literature-review@sha256:441f0e05042fe1c1The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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_sqpmjqihwgovqfpa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 26, 2026 and Apr 11, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.1 latest | 2026-04-11 | 0aa221a | 10,406 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-04-07 | b03849d | 10,831 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-27 | d46cf2e | 10,831 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-26 | 6fe71e6 | 9,601 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-26 | a8875b8 | 9,520 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 (10406 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
mathews-tom/armory · 334 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sqpmjqihwgovqfpa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/literature-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/441f0e05042fe1c165488a86c5e313dce5160885c8f31f212f88567b457b2bcc
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