Builds or audits a literature review: evidence map, closest prior work, gap verdict, and synthesis plan. Use to check whether a contribution is novel, map what a literature establishes, or organize a review; systematic reviews get a protocol scaffold.
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 Evidence Mapper
## Heritage and scope
This is an original Open Science Skills workflow for experimental and computational social science. It remixes high-level ideas from Cheng-I Wu's *Academic Research Skills for Claude Code* (CC BY-NC 4.0), especially evidence mapping, source verification, and the separation between narrative literature review and formal systematic review. It is not a full ARS pipeline.
## Instructions
### 1. Classify the review task
Decide which of these the user needs:
- **Narrative/theory review:** organize concepts, mechanisms, and debates for an introduction.
- **Design precedent review:** identify prior treatments, measures, samples, estimands, or analysis strategies.
- **Contribution audit:** test whether the claimed gap survives contact with the closest prior work.
- **Evidence map:** summarize what each study establishes, where it applies, and what remains unresolved.
- **Systematic-review escalation:** when the user needs exhaustive search, screening, risk-of-bias, and PRISMA reporting.
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Source
GitHub
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yvza7g2z5gjskncr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/literature-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7056d38acddaea4f30c2b646a8a1bdd42848b483071798cf64b8b0558896fa72
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