Literature Review

Use this skill when the task is to find, screen, synthesize, and cite a body of academic or technical literature.

When to Use

Building a systematic, scoping, or narrative literature review.
Synthesizing the state of the art for a research question.
Finding gaps, contradictions, or future-work directions.
Preparing citation-backed background sections for papers or reports.
Comparing evidence across peer-reviewed papers, preprints, patents, and technical reports.