| name | student-literature |
| description | Build a strong literature map with baselines, gaps, and concrete research opportunities. |
Student Literature
Student-specific extensions
- End with
Recommended Baselines that names the first baseline to implement.
- Add
Reviewer concerns to pre-empt with the two highest-risk objections.
- Check
shared-references/citation-discipline.md before publishing.
Purpose
Survey existing work on a given topic to establish baselines, identify gaps, and inform hypothesis formulation.
Workflow
- Define scope: What specific question or area are you surveying?
- Search: Use web search to find relevant papers, blog posts, and codebases
- Read and summarize: Extract key contributions, methods, results, and limitations
- Synthesize: Identify themes, gaps, and opportunities
- Publish: Write structured output to your canonical shared artifact directory:
{artifact_dir}/{your-name}/literature_{topic}.md
Output Format
# Literature Survey: {topic}
## Scope
What question this survey answers.
## Key Papers
### {Paper Title} ({Year})
- **Authors**: ...
- **Method**: ...
- **Key Result**: ...
- **Limitation**: ...
- **Relevance**: Why this matters to our research
### {Paper Title} ({Year})
...
## Themes
1. ...
## Gaps & Opportunities
1. ...
## Recommended Baselines
Methods we should compare against:
1. ...
## Reviewer concerns to pre-empt
1. ...
2. ...
## References
- [1] ...
Tips
- Focus on papers from the last 3 years for ML/AI topics
- Always note the evaluation metrics used — we'll need to match them
- Flag any available open-source implementations
- Note dataset availability for reproducibility