Literature Overview SOP

Layer Rules

• Layer: sop — wraps MCP tools directly
• Called by: Any tactic or strategy requiring a quick literature landscape scan
• Calls: alphaxiv MCP tools, semantic-scholar MCP tools (never calls other SOPs)

Purpose

Fast landscape scan. Understand what papers exist on a topic, who the key authors are, and rough citation counts. No full-text reading. This skill is for orientation — getting a bird's-eye view before committing to deeper reading.

Use this when you need to:

• Quickly assess how much literature exists on a topic
• Identify key papers and authors in a field
• Get citation counts to gauge paper impact
• Decide which papers deserve deeper reading (via literature-search or literature-research)

Tools