| name | literature-survey |
| description | Use when a task needs paper search, prior-art mapping, contradictory-source hunting, or a reusable bibliography. |
Literature Survey
Tool Commands
Use the command packet before applying this skill's workflow:
python3 tools/agent_tools/skill_tool_commands.py show --skill literature-survey --format text
Execute the required and task-matching conditional commands that the packet prints.
- Read
agents/skills/literature-survey.md.
- Read
agents/workflows/workflow-references.md.
- Fix the question, scope, and exclusion criteria before searching.
- Before web search, PDF download, or citation lookup, inspect existing
references/, notes/, documents/, and topic reports for the same source or claim. Reuse or update the existing source note instead of creating a parallel truth surface.
- Prefer primary sources, surveys, benchmark comparison papers, and official docs over tertiary summaries.
- Record contrary or scope-limiting evidence, not only supporting sources.
- If a prose graph handoff is present, use unsupported-claim and citation/evidence-gap diagnostics to seed query terms, source adoption decisions, and source exclusion checks.
- If a source is used, downloaded, quoted, or cited in the answer/report, leave a durable tracked reference note or source packet with URL/DOI, access date, claim used, limitation, and artifact location; do not rely on transient browser context as the only record.
