research-lit

This skill synthesizes research papers by searching arXiv TeX sources, web results, and local PDFs to answer a research question. It extracts abstracts and key sections to produce a structured literature survey table alongside a narrative summary.

Summarizing research papers involves extracting the problem, method, and results from multiple sources. This skill de-duplicates findings and scores relevance to build a comprehensive literature survey table and narrative summary.

Yes, you can search local PDFs and web sources simultaneously. This skill supports configurable source priority, allowing it to retrieve and synthesize relevant abstracts and key sections from both local files and web search results.

Yes, literature review automation works with arXiv TeX sources when available. The skill retrieves and analyzes these sources alongside local PDFs and web search results to synthesize findings and generate a comprehensive survey.

The literature survey output generates a LITERATURE_SURVEY.md file. This file contains a structured table comparing papers and a narrative summary that synthesizes findings and proposes ideas for future work.