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Literature Review

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poemswe·vlatest·writing·MIT

Analyzes literary works through poetic lens, generating insightful summaries and identifying thematic connections for research.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add poemswe/co-researcher --skill literature-review -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

poemswe

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 3 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 7 hosts that are neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: api.crossref.org, api.openalex.org, arxiv.org, doi.org, europepmc.org….

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    doi.orgundeclaredwww.ebi.ac.ukundeclaredeuropepmc.orgundeclaredgithub.comsource hostapi.openalex.orgundeclaredarxiv.orgundeclaredexport.arxiv.orgundeclaredwww.w3.orgstandardsapi.crossref.orgundeclared

    What it found (3 of 17)

    • skills/literature-review/scripts/build_corpus.py:95contacts doi.org
      doi = (work.get("doi") or "").removeprefix("https://doi.org/") or None
    • skills/literature-review/scripts/verify_citations.py:141contacts doi.org
      return doi_url.removeprefix("https://doi.org/") or None
    • skills/literature-review/scripts/europepmc_api.py:33contacts www.ebi.ac.uk
      _API_BASE = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/"

  • No credential access: failed

    Touches credential material in 2 places.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

    What it found

    • skills/literature-review/scripts/openalex_cli.py:124environment file outside the project
      dotenv.load_dotenv(os.path.expanduser("~/.env"))
    • skills/literature-review/SKILL.md:31instructs the agent to access environment file outside the project(in the instructions, not code)
      - **`OPENALEX_API_KEY`** (optional, recommended). Without it, OpenAlex runs in the unauthenticated polite pool — $0.01/day budget, ~10 `filter` queries or 1 `-…

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: failed

    Runs code fetched at install time in 1 place.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

    What it found

    • skills/literature-review/SKILL.md:30tells the user to run: remote script piped into a shell(in the instructions, not code)
      - **`uv`** must be installed. Verify with `uv --version`. If missing, run the plugin's setup script once: `bash <plugin-root>/scripts/setup.sh`. The setup scri…

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned poemswe/co-researcher at 88d4c87ff5.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
88d4c87ff5
Manifest
skills/literature-review/SKILL.md
Scanned
20 files, 2,592 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill, "literature-review," assists in researching and summarizing academic topics. It can analyze provided text to identify key themes and arguments, allowing users to quickly grasp the core concepts of a research paper or article. The tool is designed to expedite literature review processes by providing concise summaries and identifying relevant information.

When to use it

  • Summarizing Research Papers: Quickly understand the main points of a complex academic paper without reading every detail.
  • Identifying Key Arguments: Pinpoint the central arguments and supporting evidence presented in a text.
  • Literature Review Preparation: Get an overview of a topic before diving into extensive research.
  • Topic Exploration: Explore new areas of study by having core concepts distilled from provided materials.

Key capabilities

  • Text analysis for theme identification
  • Argument extraction
  • Concise summarization of academic content

Example prompts

  • "Summarize the key arguments in this research paper: [paste text]"
  • "What are the main themes discussed in this article? [paste text]"
  • “Identify the core concepts presented in this document. [paste text]”

Tips & gotchas

The skill's effectiveness depends on the quality and clarity of the input text provided. Longer or more complex texts may require iterative processing for optimal results.