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Literature review Claude skill

The Literature review skill helps an AI assistant conduct systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews across several scholarly sources.

What the Literature review skill does

The assistant can run systematic, scoping, and narrative literature reviews using sources such as PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, and Semantic Scholar. It is used for research synthesis, reproducible searches, screening, citation checking, and preparing Markdown and PDF reviews. It tracks search coverage and evidence limitations and supports meta-analysis planning without providing a meta-analysis engine.

What it covers

  • Tracks search coverage, records versus studies, and evidence limitations
  • Supports meta-analysis planning but no meta-analysis engine
  • Verifies citations via DOI registration checks
  • Generates Markdown and PDF review documents

How to install it

Other ways

npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

This installs the whole K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills collection, which includes this skill.

What you need

In its documentation's own words:

  • “Python 3.10+ with requests; network for DOI checks and searches”
  • “Optional parallel-cli requires Parallel authentication”
  • “PDF export needs Pandoc and XeLaTeX”
  • “AI schematics need OPENROUTER_API_KEY”

Steps change between versions. Check the official instructions before you install.