Literature Review

Literature Review is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by xuzhougeng in wisp-science.

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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/xuzhougeng/wisp-science/tree/main/skills/literature-review ~/.claude/skills/literature-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/xuzhougeng/wisp-science.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/literature-review/SKILL.md in xuzhougeng/wisp-science
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/literature-review
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Literature Review does

Literature Review retrieves, verifies, and synthesizes scientific papers for seminal-paper lookups, evidence summaries, method comparisons, and gap analyses. It uses live citations and DOI checks, then writes an argued synthesis with resolvable links.

Literature Review is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Literature Review comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-assistant, ai-for-science and ai4science.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Literature review

Work through six steps: scope, sweep, expand, verify, write, lint. The failure modes this skill exists to prevent are all silent — a fabricated DOI, a retracted headline result, a reading list dressed up as a synthesis — so each step below names the check that catches it.

1. Scope the request

Different phrasings want different deliverables:

Request shape	Deliverable
"the paper for X" / "the original/seminal…"	one or two primary citations
"what's the evidence on X"	thematic synthesis
"compare A and B"	trade-off analysis ending in a recommendation
"where are the gaps"	named gaps, each anchored to what establishes it

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

Frequently asked about Literature Review

What else does xuzhougeng publish alongside Literature Review?
Literature Review is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from xuzhougeng/wisp-science, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Infini, Bear Counter and Bear Map. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Literature Review does, and is maintained by xuzhougeng in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the xuzhougeng/wisp-science page.
How does Literature Review compare to other Writing skills?
Literature Review ranks #440 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.