Literature Survey Loop

Literature Survey Loop is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by gaasher in Agent-Loop-Skills.

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Install Literature Survey Loop

Copy Literature Survey Loop 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/gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills/tree/main/loops/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/gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: loops/literature-survey/SKILL.md in gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/literature-survey
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1361 skills

What Literature Survey Loop does

Literature Survey Loop builds an evidence-and-contradiction matrix for a research question by iteratively searching, extracting claims, and mapping source stances. Use it for structured literature surveys that need saturation, dispute tracking, and citation-backed coverage.

Literature Survey Loop is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Literature Survey Loop comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-loops, agentic-workflows, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Literature Survey Loop

A search → extract → map → expand loop that builds an evidence/contradiction matrix and stops at saturation. The artifact is the matrix (claims × sources, with each source's stance); the feedback signal is how many new, matrix-changing sources a round adds — you keep expanding until that falls below <min_new> for <patience> rounds. Unlike a one-shot summary, the loop deliberately hunts contradictions and gaps and keeps pulling threads until the picture stops changing.

The discipline: every cell — a source's stance on a claim — is backed by a verbatim snippet from a real retrieval. The value is not a tidy narrative; it is an honest map of where the literature agrees, disagrees, and is silent.

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

Frequently asked about Literature Survey Loop

What else does gaasher publish alongside Literature Survey Loop?
Literature Survey Loop is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Alpha Evolve, Anomaly Investigation and Blue Team. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Literature Survey Loop does, and is maintained by gaasher in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills page.
How does Literature Survey Loop compare to other Writing skills?
Literature Survey Loop ranks #1182 by stars among the 1361 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 Loop against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.