SKILL.md
Systematic Literature Review Skill
Overview
This skill produces a structured systematic literature review (SLR) across multiple academic papers on a research topic. Given a topic query, it searches arXiv, extracts structured metadata (research question, methodology, key findings, limitations) from each paper in parallel, synthesizes themes across the full set, and emits a final report with consistent citations.
Distinct from academic-paper-review: that skill does deep peer review of a single paper. This skill does breadth-first synthesis across many papers. If the user hands you one paper URL and asks "review this paper", route to academic-paper-review instead.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when the user wants any of the following:
- A literature survey on a topic ("survey transformer attention variants", "review the literature on diffusion models")
- A synthesis across multiple papers ("what do recent papers say about X", "compare methodologies across papers on Y")
- A systematic review with consistent citation format ("do an SLR on Z in APA format")
- An annotated bibliography on a topic
- An overview of research trends in a field over a time window
Do not use this skill when: