| name | literature |
| description | Manage the project's literature workflow — ideate research questions, run structured literature reviews, add citations to references.bib, write annotation notes in references/, and audit citation integrity. Use for any bibliography or literature task. |
| argument-hint | <mode> <args> — mode: ideate | review | cite | note | check |
| disable-model-invocation | true |
| user-invocable | true |
| allowed-tools | Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch |
| version | 2.0.0 |
| workflow_stage | writing |
| tags | ["literature","citations","bibliography","BibTeX","literature-review","ideation","quality-check"] |
Literature: ideation, reviews, citations, notes, integrity checks
Consolidated literature/bibliography entry point. A thin dispatcher on the first
argument; the detailed procedure for each mode lives in references/. This skill
carries WebSearch + WebFetch because several modes look papers up online.
Modes
| Mode | Reads | Does |
|---|
ideate | references/research-ideation.md | Generate research questions via four frameworks (Puzzle/Policy/Data/Extension) → notes/ideation-<slug>.md |
review | references/lit-review.md | Structured literature review (search strategy, synthesis, gaps) → references/lit-review-<slug>.md |
cite | references/citation-management.md | Find a paper, add BibTeX to references.bib, show citation syntax |
note | references/literature-note.md | Write a structured annotation note → references/<key>.md |
check | references/citation-management.md | Cross-check index.qmd @keys vs references.bib (missing/orphaned/duplicate) — formerly bib-check |
Procedure
- Parse the first token as the mode and read the matching
references/*.md.
- Follow that reference doc. Modes chain internally: after
cite, offer note;
after review, offer cite/note for newly surfaced papers.
- Never fabricate BibTeX or DOIs — verify via WebSearch/WebFetch; if a source
cannot be confirmed, say so and leave a
[CITE: ...] placeholder for the prose.
Follow-up
Offer /project:write to fold citations into prose, or
/project:review manuscript for a full citation-integrity audit.
