literature-review SKILL.md skillA
literature-review from aipoch/open-science is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aipoch/open-science/literature-review@git:20260916.d082abbPins git:20260916.d082abb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aipoch/open-science
- Path
resources/skills/literature-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260916.d082abb, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 12,649 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,279
- License
- Apache-2.0
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.
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
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.
## Setup (any agent, no API key)
This is a **pure skill** — `kernel.py` is deterministic Python (plain HTTP/stdlib calls to CrossRef and OpenAlex) and _you_ (the base model) do all the reasoning: the finding, the synthesis, the prose. There is no `host` runtime and no LLM API. Load the helpers once per session in a Python cell:
```python
exec(open("<this skill's directory>/kernel.py").read())
```
Nothing auto-loads it outside Claude Science. Then call the helpers directly — `verify_dois`, `crossref_lookup`, `search_openalex`, `expand_citations`, `extract_dois`, `style_pass`. If a helper name is not defined, you haven't exec'd `kernel.py`.
Configuration is via environment variables, not a host — no LLM key is involved:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aipoch/open-science/literature-review@sha256:f8926cbc0b2628d1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.d082abb, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 22 days.
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| git:20260916.d082abb latest | 2026-09-16 | d082abb | 12,649 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.c9a70d8 | 2026-08-14 | c9a70d8 | 12,243 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260714.a2a3282 | 2026-07-14 | a2a3282 | 12,239 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.bb7e2eb | 2026-07-13 | bb7e2eb | 22,508 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
aipoch/open-science · 5,279 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w5rh6m47vexfzvaq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aipoch/open-science/literature-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f8926cbc0b2628d1597f0185aabc38d2c71e5acc52c72b20f6a4173d940c7aed
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