Literature Review

Literature Review is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by pedrohcgs in claude-code-my-workflow.

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Install Literature Review

Copy Literature Review into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/main/.claude/skills/lit-review ~/.claude/skills/lit-review

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/lit-review/SKILL.md in pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/lit-review
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Literature Review does

Literature Review conducts a structured academic literature search and synthesis, producing a written review with BibTeX citations, thematic clustering, and gap identification. Use it when someone asks to find papers on a topic or summarize the state of a field.

Literature Review is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Literature Review comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, causal-inference, claude-code, claude-code-skills and econometrics.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Literature Review

Conduct a structured literature search and synthesis on the given topic.

Input: $ARGUMENTS — a topic, paper title, research question, or phenomenon to investigate.

Steps

Parse the topic from $ARGUMENTS. If a specific paper is named, use it as the anchor.
Search for related work using available tools:
- Check master_supporting_docs/supporting_papers/ for uploaded papers
- Use WebSearch to find recent publications (if available)
- Use WebFetch to access working paper repositories (if available)
- Read any existing .bib file for papers already in the project

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Literature Review

What else does pedrohcgs publish alongside Literature Review?
Literature Review is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Reproducibility, Capture Environment and Checkpoint. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Literature Review does, and is maintained by pedrohcgs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow page.
How does Literature Review compare to other Writing skills?
Literature Review ranks #319 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Literature Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.