literature-report
Create or update literature reviews/reports. Use whenever you need to research, summarize, or synthesize the literature.
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/allenai/asta-plugins --skill literature-reportIs this agent skill safe to install?
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The literature-report skill provides a structured workflow for synthesizing research papers and managing citations. It utilizes a vendor-specific CLI tool to fetch paper metadata and interacts with files in a dedicated research directory. While the ingestion of external literature content creates a potential surface for indirect prompt injection, the skill is focused on legitimate academic tasks and shows no malicious patterns.
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What does this agent skill do?
Literature Reports
Create or update literature reviews/reports as markdown documents with citations.
Finding Papers
- Check
.asta/documents/literature/find/for existing search results before running new searches. - Use the Find Literature skill for comprehensive searches and for the result schema and jq access patterns.
- Use the Semantic Scholar Lookup skill for targeted queries: specific papers, citations, and author searches.
Workflow Guidance
- Identify or create the report file first. Check if there's an existing report to update. New reports go in user-visible locations (e.g.,
docs/), not inside.asta/. - When updating an existing report, read it first to understand the current structure and content.
- When using Find Literature results, go through ALL highly relevant papers — extract relevance criteria, snippets, and citation contexts from each.
Citation Conventions
YAML frontmatter — required for citation resolution:
---
bibliography: ../references.bib
---
Citations: Use [@key] format. Every key must exist in the .bib file — unresolved keys won't render.
Adding papers to .bib: As you cite a paper, fetch its metadata and append a BibTeX entry:
asta papers get CorpusId:<id> --fields title,authors,year,venue,externalIds,journal,publicationDate
Generate a BibTeX entry from the result. Conventions:
- Key:
{firstAuthorSurname}{year}lowercased, ASCII only (e.g.,wei2022). Append a letter for conflicts (wei2022a). corpus_id: Includecorpus_id = {<id>}for stable identification (survives key renames).- Append to the
.bib— never rewrite existing entries.
Verification: Use the Preview skill to render and verify all citations resolve.
How can the creator link this skill?
Add the canonical catalog link to the repository README so users can inspect current installs and available audits. The publishing guide covers the complete discovery path.
<a href="https://skillzs.dev/skills/allenai/asta-plugins/literature-report">View literature-report on skillZs</a>