Systematic Literature Review

by HezaoHezao

Systematic Literature Review is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by HezaoHezao in poirot.

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Install Systematic Literature Review

Copy Systematic 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/HezaoHezao/poirot/tree/master/poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/research/systematic-literature-review ~/.claude/skills/systematic-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/HezaoHezao/poirot.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/research/systematic-literature-review/SKILL.md in HezaoHezao/poirot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/systematic-literature-review
Collection: One of 37 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Systematic Literature Review does

Systematic Literature Review searches arXiv papers on a topic, extracts structured metadata, and synthesizes themes, convergences, disagreements, and gaps. Use it for literature surveys, annotated bibliographies, and topic overviews across multiple papers.

Systematic Literature Review is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Systematic Literature Review comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-memory, agent-skill, agent-skills and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Systematic Literature Review

Overview

Produces a structured systematic literature review (SLR) across multiple academic papers on a research topic. Given a topic query, searches arXiv, extracts structured metadata from each paper, synthesizes themes, and emits a final report with consistent citations.

Distinct from academic-paper-review: that skill does deep peer review of a single paper. This skill does breadth-first synthesis across many papers.

Poirot note: The original deer-flow skill uses a bundled scripts/arxiv_search.py + subagent task tool for parallel extraction. Poirot has neither, so this version uses bash with curl to the arXiv API directly + sequential single-agent extraction.

When to Use

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

Frequently asked about Systematic Literature Review

What else does HezaoHezao publish alongside Systematic Literature Review?
Systematic Literature Review is one of 37 skills that DirSkills catalogs from HezaoHezao/poirot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Academic Paper Review, ArXiv Research and Architecture Diagram. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Systematic Literature Review does, and is maintained by HezaoHezao in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the HezaoHezao/poirot page.
How does Systematic Literature Review compare to other Writing skills?
Systematic Literature Review ranks #844 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 Systematic Literature Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.