Asta Literature Reports
Literature Reports
Create or update literature reviews/reports as markdown documents with citations.
Finding Papers
- Check
.asta/literature/find/for existing search results before running new searches. - Use the Find Literature skill for comprehensive searches and for the result schema and jq access patterns.
- Use the Semantic Scholar Lookup skill for targeted queries: specific papers, citations, and author searches.
Workflow Guidance
- Identify or create the report file first. Check if there's an existing report to update. New reports go in user-visible locations (e.g.,
docs/), not inside.asta/. - When updating an existing report, read it first to understand the current structure and content.
- When using Find Literature results, go through ALL highly relevant papers — extract relevance criteria, snippets, and citation contexts from each.
Citation Conventions
YAML frontmatter — required for citation resolution:
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