Literature Reports

Create or update literature reviews/reports as markdown documents with citations.

Finding Papers

• Check .asta/documents/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: