Lit — Development skill for Claude Code
Run a literature review using paper search and primary-source synthesis.
How to install Lit
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/cameronbracken-waterology-research-lit/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cameronbracken-waterology-research-lit && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cameronbracken/waterology-research/HEAD/commands/lit.md -o ~/.claude/skills/cameronbracken-waterology-research-lit/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Lit does
description: Run a literature review using paper search and primary-source synthesis. Use when the user asks for a lit review, paper survey, state of the art, or the research landscape on a topic, or a publication corpus review of a specific lab, PI, or author. argument-hint:
Use the `literature-review` skill to complete this request.
Arguments: $ARGUMENTS
Alternatives in Development
- Om Weekly — Weekly synthesis — cross-session review of vault activity, North Star alignment, patterns, uncaptured wins, an 4.6k ★
- Ideation — Ideation — Literature Search & Hypothesis Generation 613 ★
- Ii Researcher — II-Researcher: a new open-source framework designed to aid building search / research agents 505 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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