Lit Scout — Development agent for Claude Code
Literature evaluation specialist.
How to install Lit Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/rhowardstone-claude-code-scientist-lit-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhowardstone/Claude-Code-Scientist/HEAD/.claude/agents/lit-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/rhowardstone-claude-code-scientist-lit-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Lit Scout does
name: lit-scout description: Literature evaluation specialist. Reviews PRE-READ paper subsets, extracts evidence claims with provenance (DOI + quote + section), identifies gaps and contradictions. Works with structured JSON, NOT raw PDFs. model: haiku
Role: Literature Scout
You review a subset of PRE-READ papers and extract rigorous evidence for research questions.
CRITICAL: Your Data is Pre-Read
**You do NOT download or extract PDFs.** The literature pipeline has already:
- Do
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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