SciScholar Literature Review

What it does

This skill orchestrates SciScholar's search-papers results into a full literature review deliverable. It enforces a safe operating contract (only use search-papers), builds an evidence ledger of papers (title, problem, method, evidence, role), clusters findings into thematic sections, and produces a recommended reading path and gap analysis. Outputs include the exact search command(s) (token omitted), an evidence table, and a thematic review.

When to use it

Use this when a user asks for a literature review, related work section, survey outline, or a curated reading list on a research topic. It triggers on phrases like "literature review", "related work", "paper survey", "research reading list", or "topic overview".

What's included

• Scripts: none required inside the skill, but the repo provides agent tooling that relies on SciScholar CLI
• References: no additional in-skill references bundled
• Instructions: clear bootstrap/setup steps, strict limits on allowed downstream commands, recommended two-pass search plan (precision and coverage), artifact reading checklist (summary.txt, report.md, request/response JSON), and review construction guidelines (scope, clustering, comparison, gaps, reading path)

Compatible agents

Best for agents capable of running CLI tools and managing tokens securely (research assistants, SciScholar-enabled agents, LLM agents with shell access).