Skills

literature-survey-generator

literature-survey-generator is a skill in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, last changed 18 Jun 2026. It can run shell commands, reach the network, name web addresses and pre-approve tools — read the findings before installing. Our pattern check found 1 item to review at commit 371a40e on 27 Oct 2026.

Pattern check: 1 item to review · commit 371a40e · 27 Oct 2026

Install
From the author
Generate a complete academic literature survey from scratch using multi-agent orchestration. Searches academic databases (OpenAlex, CrossRef, Unpaywall), downloads PDFs, builds BibTeX, drafts a LaTeX review, compiles it, reviews for quality, and revises based on feedback — all automated. Use this skill whenever the user asks to "generate a literature review", "write a survey paper", "review recent papers on [topic]", "create a survey of [field]", "综述", "文献综述", "survey papers in top journals", or wants a multi-agent pipeline to produce a publishable-quality literature review. Also trigger when the user wants to search multiple journals for papers on a topic and synthesize findings into a structured document. Works for any academic field but optimized for economics journals.
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Folder last changed
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brycewang-stanford
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Checked
371a40e (opens in a new tab) · 27 Oct 2026

Install

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Pinned to commit 371a40e, the one we checked.

From your project's root folder:

tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&
  git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&
  git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin 371a40e488c5d9e8e75ca2af5dd9667f8349c199 &&
  git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/68-research-productivity-skills/literature-survey-generator &&
  git -C "$tmp" checkout -q 371a40e488c5d9e8e75ca2af5dd9667f8349c199 &&
  mkdir -p .claude/skills &&
  mkdir .claude/skills/literature-survey-generator &&
  cp -R "$tmp"/skills/68-research-productivity-skills/literature-survey-generator/. .claude/skills/literature-survey-generator/ &&
  rm -rf "$tmp"

If Claude Code was already running and this created the skills folder, run /reload-skills.

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What it can touch

From the files and frontmatter at commit 371a40e. This is how much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.

What it can touch: Shell, network or credentials

  • Runs shell commands

    Its instructions or files give the agent commands to run on your computer.

  • Reaches the network

    It sends or fetches data over the internet, for example with curl, an HTTP library or a package install.

  • Names web addresses

    It mentions outside web addresses the agent may visit. We list them but don't follow them.

  • Pre-approves tools

    Its allowed-tools field lists tools the agent may use without asking you first, in agents that honour it.

    SKILL.md:16

Pattern check

Pattern check: 1 item to review · commit 371a40e · 27 Oct 2026

We checked every text file in this skill, at commit 371a40e on 27 Oct 2026, against 45 published patterns such as download-and-run commands, hidden text and credential access. We don't run the skill, we don't read the web pages it points to, and we can't judge everything its instructions might lead an agent to do. In published tests, pattern checks like this one missed most malicious skills. Read the skill before you install it — especially anything it asks you to download or run.

How the check worksReport an incorrect finding

Outside links we did not follow

  • https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=primary_location.source.id
  • https://api.crossref.org/journals/
  • https://api.openalex.org/sources?search=
  • https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/
  • https://doi.org/

Format check

Each agent reads SKILL.md a little differently. We check the file against each one's published rules; we don't run the skill in any agent.

  • Agent Skills specPasses with warnings

    The open format from agentskills.io, held to what the strictest agents enforce, so one folder loads everywhere.

    • Warning

      allowed-tools is a list; the spec defines a space-separated string. gh skill publish rejects a list, though Claude Code accepts one. O5

      Fix: Write it on one line: allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit Glob Grep Agent WebFetch WebSearch TaskCreate TaskUpdate TaskList

    • Note

      There is no license field, so readers can't tell whether they may reuse the skill. O2

      Fix: Add license: with an SPDX name such as MIT or Apache-2.0, or the name of a bundled licence file.

    • Note

      Reference files that SKILL.md doesn't link: references/latex-template.md. Anthropic suggests linking every reference file directly from SKILL.md. B4

      Fix: Link each one from SKILL.md and say when to read it.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/latex-template.md (138 lines). B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • Claude CodePasses

    Claude Code reads its own extra fields, ignores unknown ones, and still loads a skill whose frontmatter is broken, without its fields.

    • Note

      Reference files that SKILL.md doesn't link: references/latex-template.md. Anthropic suggests linking every reference file directly from SKILL.md. B4

      Fix: Link each one from SKILL.md and say when to read it.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/latex-template.md (138 lines). B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • Claude apps & API uploadPasses

    Uploading to claude.ai or the Claude API, or packaging with Anthropic's script, accepts only the six spec fields and stops on anything else.

    • Note

      The description is 783 characters. The claude.ai Help Center says 200 at most, though Anthropic's API docs and validator allow 1,024. D4

      Fix: If the claude.ai upload refuses it, trim the description to 200 characters.

    • Note

      allowed-tools is a list; the spec defines a space-separated string. O5

      Fix: Write it on one line: allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit Glob Grep Agent WebFetch WebSearch TaskCreate TaskUpdate TaskList

    • Note

      Reference files that SKILL.md doesn't link: references/latex-template.md. Anthropic suggests linking every reference file directly from SKILL.md. B4

      Fix: Link each one from SKILL.md and say when to read it.

    • Note

      Reference files over 100 lines with no table of contents at the top: references/latex-template.md (138 lines). B5

      Fix: Add a short list of the sections at the top of each.

  • OpenAI (Codex & API)Passes

    Codex finds SKILL.md by its exact name and needs a description; OpenAI's Skills API checks the frontmatter against the spec and caps uploads.

    • Note

      allowed-tools is a list; the spec defines a space-separated string. O5

      Fix: Write it on one line: allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit Glob Grep Agent WebFetch WebSearch TaskCreate TaskUpdate TaskList

  • VS Code & CopilotPasses

    VS Code reads skills one folder below .github/skills, .claude/skills or .agents/skills and falls back to the folder name when the name is missing or differs; GitHub's Copilot docs require the exact name SKILL.md.

    • Note

      allowed-tools is a list; the spec defines a space-separated string. O5

      Fix: Write it on one line: allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit Glob Grep Agent WebFetch WebSearch TaskCreate TaskUpdate TaskList

SKILL.md

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Files

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