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Lit Review skill

lit-reviewbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skillsskills/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/lit-review/SKILL.md

Structured literature review using a parallel fleet of Librarian agents. Searches top journals, working paper repositories (NBER, SSRN, IZA), and traces citation chains from key papers. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to survey existing research on a topic — not to find datasets or write a paper. Triggers include: "review the literature", "find related papers", "what's been done on X", "search for papers on", "do a lit review", "find papers about", "what papers should I cite", "who has written about this", "survey the literature", "find prior work on", or any request to locate and summarize academic publications on a topic.

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1,769 tokSKILL.md body

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Install the Lit Review skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill lit-review

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git /tmp/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/skills/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/lit-review ~/.claude/skills/lit-review

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description144 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions1,769 tok
Only if openedNo bundled files—

Until it is used, lit-review costs about 9.5× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 150 skills from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills would load 14,926 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Write, WebSearch, WebFetch, Task, AskUserQuestion. The agent can use these without asking while the skill is active.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • Literature Review
  • Step 1: Orient and Gather Context
  • Step 2: Assign Librarians
  • Always dispatch (3 minimum):
  • Add when anchor papers are available (dispatch 4th and 5th):
  • Step 3: Consolidate and Deduplicate
  • Step 4: Organize Thematically
  • Step 5: Identify Gaps
  • Step 6: Save Report
  • Important

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