| name | literature-trends |
| description | Abductive argumentation-based literature trend analysis — trace how explanatory hypotheses evolve over time within a tagged literature thread |
| triggers | ["analyze trends in [keyword/topic]","trace hypothesis evolution for [cluster]","create trend thread for [topic]","what hypotheses dominated [topic] in [year range]","show genealogy for [trend thread]"] |
| prerequisites | ["TypeDB running (install alhazen-core first and run /alhazen-core:init)","uv installed","scientific-literature skill installed and papers ingested with keyword tags (literature-trends queries scilit-paper entities and their keyword attributes)"] |
Literature Trends Skill
Use this skill to perform abductive argumentation analysis on a tagged set of scientific papers — tracing how explanatory hypotheses emerge, evolve, and replace each other over time.
Core idea: For each time window of papers, identify: (1) what phenomenon was observed and needed explaining, (2) what hypothesis was proposed, (3) what evidence supported it, (4) what it left unexplained, and (5) how it relates to the prior window's hypothesis.
When to use:
- Papers are clustered/tagged with a keyword (e.g., from
scientific_literature.py cluster + keyword tagging)
- You want to understand how a research field's explanatory framework has evolved
- You want to identify open questions and research gaps systematically
Quick Start
Path note: Replace <skill-path> with your installation directory
(e.g. ~/.claude/plugins/cache/literature-trends/ when installed as a plugin).
uv run --project <skill-path> python <skill-path>/literature_trends.py create-thread \
--name "Partial Reprogramming Trend Analysis" \
--keyword "partial-reprogramming" \
--source-collection "collection-925280f3c398"
uv run --project <skill-path> python <skill-path>/literature_trends.py record-hypothesis \
--thread "trend-thread-abc123" \
--window "2016-2018" \
--content "## Window 2016-2018\n\n**Phenomenon:** ..."
uv run --project <skill-path> python <skill-path>/literature_trends.py record-genealogy \
--predecessor "note-abc123" --successor "note-def456" \
--type "extends" --description "Extends to wild-type aging"
uv run --project <skill-path> python <skill-path>/literature_trends.py show-thread \
--thread "trend-thread-abc123"
Before executing any commands, read USAGE.md in this directory for the complete command reference, workflows, data model, and abductive framework.
