Literature Survey

Literature Survey is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by ai4s-research in ai4s-skills.

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Install in seconds

Install Literature Survey

Copy Literature Survey 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/ai4s-research/ai4s-skills/tree/main/skills/literature-survey ~/.claude/skills/literature-survey

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/ai4s-research/ai4s-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/literature-survey/SKILL.md in ai4s-research/ai4s-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/literature-survey
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1227 skills

What Literature Survey does

Literature Survey builds a full research survey on a specific topic, with LaTeX source, classified citations, figures, and a publication table. Use it when you need a structured literature review for a thesis chapter, grant, or field overview.

Literature Survey is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Literature Survey comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agent, ai-for-science, ai-scientist and ai4s.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Literature Survey

Overview

End-to-end literature survey builder. Single stage, full quality from the start. The agent (Claude Code / Cursor / Aider / Codex / …) does the entire build using its own tools (WebFetch, WebSearch, Write, Bash). This SKILL is procedure + reference playbooks + LaTeX template — no Python runtime, no LLM SDK.

The substantive work is decomposed into reference playbooks under references/:

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

Frequently asked about Literature Survey

What else does ai4s-research publish alongside Literature Survey?
Literature Survey is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ai4s-research/ai4s-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI4S Agent, Experiment Suite and Integrity Auditor. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Literature Survey does, and is maintained by ai4s-research in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ai4s-research/ai4s-skills page.
How does Literature Survey compare to other Writing skills?
Literature Survey ranks #982 by stars among the 1227 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 Survey against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.