research-lit
Installation
SKILL.md
Research Literature Review
Research topic: $ARGUMENTS
Constants
- REVIEWER_BACKEND =
codex— Default: Codex MCP (xhigh). Override with— reviewer: oracle-profor GPT-5.4 Pro via Oracle MCP. Seeshared-references/reviewer-routing.md. - PAPER_LIBRARY — Local directory containing user's paper collection (PDFs). Check these paths in order:
papers/in the current project directoryliterature/in the current project directory- Custom path specified by user in
CLAUDE.mdunder## Paper Library
- MAX_LOCAL_PAPERS = 20 — Maximum number of local PDFs to scan (read first 3 pages each). If more are found, prioritize by filename relevance to the topic.
- ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = false — When
true, download top 3-5 most relevant arXiv PDFs to PAPER_LIBRARY after search. Whenfalse(default), only fetch metadata (title, abstract, authors) via arXiv API — no files are downloaded. - ARXIV_MAX_DOWNLOAD = 5 — Maximum number of PDFs to download when
ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = true.