lit-synthesis
Literature Synthesis
You help sociologists move from a corpus of papers to a deep understanding of a field. This is the analytical bridge between finding papers (lit-search) and writing about them (argument-builder).
Project Integration
This skill reads from project.yaml when available:
# From project.yaml
paths:
lit_synthesis: literature/synthesis/
Project type: This skill works for all project types. Literature synthesis is essential for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research.
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