Topic · Research & Science
Best literature review skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Literature review skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Builds a structured deep-reading card for one scientific paper, covering methods, how experiments support claims, limitations and research ideas, with a script to prepare the source. | Yuan1z0825/ | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 2 | Screens records for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews against fixed eligibility rules, using two blinded AI reviewers and a third adjudicator, with traceable PRISMA counts. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 3 | Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). | neflibata-feng/ | 126 | 20 repos | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 4 | Searches bioRxiv life sciences preprints by keyword, author, date range or category with a Python script, returning JSON metadata and optional PDF downloads. | LigphiDonk/ | 738 | 12 repos | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 5 | Runs a 12-agent pipeline that plans, drafts, cites, reviews and formats academic papers, with modes for revision, rebuttals, abstracts and citation checks. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 6 | Runs multi-round research in three stages with a persisted state file, evidence tracking and a long-form report with per-claim citations. | TokenRhythm/ | 7.1k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 7 | Execute autonomous multi-step research using Google Gemini Deep Research Agent. | sanjay3290/ | 431 | 9 repos | ~683 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 29 days ago |
| 8 | Orchestrates a ten-stage academic workflow from research to finished manuscript, including integrity checks, two rounds of peer review and revision. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 9 | A router skill that sends academic work such as literature reviews, drafting, citation checks, peer review and revision to the right workflow in the ARS suite. | Imbad0202/ | 12k | — | ~12k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 6 days ago |
| 10 | 10.Econ Write Expert economics paper writing assistant synthesizing advice from 50+ top guides by Cochrane, McCloskey, Shapiro, Head, Bellemare, Goldin, Glaeser, Kremer, and other leading economists. | hanlulong/ | 647 | 2 repos | ~14k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 11 | Searches arXiv across many papers on one topic, extracts each paper's methodology and findings in parallel, and synthesizes a cited literature review. | bytedance/ | 84k | 2 repos | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 12 | Searches arXiv, fetches metadata, generates BibTeX, downloads PDFs and finds citations and related papers using a bundled Python script. | XiaomiMiMo/ | 14k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Runs a 13-agent pipeline for rigorous academic research, from forming the question through systematic search, synthesis, bias checks and an APA 7.0 report. | Imbad0202/ | 51k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 14 | Step 3 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra. | Ar9av/ | 677 | 1 repo | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 18 days ago |
| 15 | Searches DBLP for papers from top conferences such as CVPR, ICLR and NeurIPS, adds Semantic Scholar data, scores them and writes a yearly Obsidian note. | juliye2025/ | 1.7k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 24 days ago |
| 16 | Writes the research-status literature review and critique section of an NSFC grant proposal, backed by a bundled multi-source literature search. | HuiyuLi-2000/ | 434 | 1 repo | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 17 | An 18-agent pipeline that turns one topic line into a drafted research paper, literature review, or thesis chapter. | federicodeponte/ | 507 | — | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 18 | A skill your agent uses when writing or revising Introduction, Related Work, background, literature synthesis, or any section where references must drive claims | Norman-bury/ | 3.4k | — | ~952 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 19 | 根据用户提供的论文主题,进行系统性中英文文献回顾(Literature Survey). An agent skill from stephenlzc/AI-Powered-Literature-Review-Skills. | stephenlzc/ | 174 | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 20 | A skill your agent uses when finding, comparing, reading, or monitoring arXiv papers, including requests for abstracts, citation graphs, original LaTeX, section-level technical details, or… | blazickjp/ | 3.2k | — | ~353 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 21 | Write LaTeX ML/AI review articles for arXiv using the IEEEtran template and verified BibTeX citations. | appautomaton/ | 458 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 22 | Step 1 of the PaperOrchestra pipeline (arXiv:2604.05018). An agent skill from Ar9av/PaperOrchestra. | Ar9av/ | 677 | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 18 days ago |
| 23 | 23.Research Lit Search and analyze research papers, find related work, summarize key ideas. | CurryTang/ | 176 | 5 repos | ~963 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 24 | Security code review for vulnerabilities. An agent skill from getsentry/skills. | getsentry/ | 1k | 4 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 7 days ago |
| 25 | A decision board for evidence-based calls — the human adjudicates, the agent runs the errands. | tigerless-labs/ | 230 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 26 | Help with humanities scholarly writing: sharpen research questions, map supplied readings, plan and draft arguments, review chapters, preserve authorial voice, and respond to reviewers. | tizzy916/ | 435 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | 17 days ago |
| 27 | Routes literature searches through the PaperSeek launcher, picks suitable scholarly sources, parses JSON output and keeps API keys out of the chat. | MingfengHong/ | 200 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| 28 | Run the four paper-quality autoraters from PaperOrchestra (arXiv:2604.05018, App. | Ar9av/ | 677 | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 18 days ago |
| 29 | Searches arXiv for recent papers matching your research interests, scores them and writes a daily recommendation note into an Obsidian vault. | juliye2025/ | 1.7k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 24 days ago |
| 30 | Helps draft, diagnose, review and revise social science papers, from topic and research question to literature review, citation risks and pre-submission checks. | fakerqwq/ | 378 | — | ~7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 31 | Searches and downloads legally accessible academic PDFs, OCRs them to Markdown, and organizes the results into a traceable, AI-readable literature library. | LigphiDonk/ | 738 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 32 | Writes ML/AI review and survey papers for arXiv using the IEEEtran LaTeX template with verified BibTeX citations. | yunshenwuchuxun/ | 266 | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 33 | Builds a single-file HTML survey paper on an AI or ML topic from a research bundle the agent curates, with prose and SVG figures written by Kimi K2.6. | dair-ai/ | 614 | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 34 | Revise Chinese or English academic writing for lower unnecessary textual overlap while preserving meaning, evidence, numbers, equations, terminology, and citations. | lin1111-1/ | 102 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 35 | Domain-configurable Zotero-to-Obsidian literature curation and paper close-reading skill. | ganzoth/ | 160 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 mo ago |
| 36 | Create GitHub issues for cuga-agent (bugs, features, epics, designs, and related work) against origin using gh, with epic → feature → issue hierarchy and GraphQL sub-issue linking. | cuga-project/ | 896 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 37 | Finds recent arXiv and bioRxiv papers on a topic, narrows them in stages to one pick per field, and writes bilingual Chinese and English summaries. | Galaxy-Dawn/ | 5.7k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 38 | CS 顶会论文写作全流程 Skill(7-Agent Pipeline)。覆盖从选题到投稿的完整管线:Idea 生成、Literature Review、Method 设计、Experiment 方案、Paper Writing、模拟审稿、Rebuttal。 | SGloria/ | 149 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 39 | Compile a structured literature survey on any AI/ML topic. An agent skill from rohitg00/pro-workflow. | rohitg00/ | 2.9k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 10 days ago |
| 40 | Orchestrate the full PaperOrchestra (Song et al., 2026, arXiv:2604.05018) five-agent pipeline to turn unstructured research materials (idea, experimental log, LaTeX template, conference guidelines… | Ar9av/ | 677 | 1 repo | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 18 days ago |
| 41 | A skill your agent uses when the user asks to write or draft a PhD / doctoral research proposal, research plan, 研究计划书, or 开题报告 — a forward-looking plan of background, gap, research questions… | luwill/ | 858 | — | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 9 days ago |
| 42 | 42.Paper Skill End-to-end, Chinese-first academic research and publication workflow for reading papers, literature reviews, research framing, manuscript planning and writing, Chinese-English translation, LaTeX… | cLin-c/ | 119 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 43 | Finds, annotates, cites and tracks academic papers through subcommands for searching, turning a PDF into an annotated webpage, and daily paper discovery. | sjqsgg/ | 147 | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 44 | Explains a research paper to a non-specialist reader: what was studied, what was contributed, how the findings follow, and what the evidence does not establish. | lijigang/ | 138 | — | ~712 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 45 | 45.Neuroarxiv Grounds a coding agent's architecture decisions in real arXiv prior art before it builds something new. | UditAkhourii/ | 433 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 22 days ago |
| 46 | Generates structured literature survey reports from collected papers using a multi-stage pipeline: outline generation (query-type adaptive) → draft survey → section-by-section expansion → summary… | EvoScientist/ | 476 | 3 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| 47 | Decision-grade research, three ways: draft a deep-research prompt for the user to run in their own tool (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, …), process a finished research report — file it, distill… | delorenj/ | 445 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 16 days ago |
| 48 | Guides you through writing a systematic literature review to the PRISMA 2020 checklist, producing a journal-format Word manuscript, a flow diagram and APA 7th references. | keemanxp/ | 101 | 1 repo | ~7.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best literature review skill?
Nature Paper Card from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills ranks first of the 485 literature review skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 47k GitHub stars, 2 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.1k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Systematic Review Screener and Literature Review.
Which literature review skills are official?
4 of the 485 literature review skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Security Review, Issue Graph, Biomarker Multi Agent Discovery and Research Deep Literature Review.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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