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scientific-thinking-literature-review

Systematic literature-review workflow for academic, biomedical, technical, and scientific topics, including search planning, source screening, synthesis, citation checks, and evidence logging. Use when the task is to find, screen, synthesize, and cite a body of academic or technical literature.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body delivers a disciplined, actionable 8-step review workflow with concrete templates, logging formats, and a citation-verification gate. It falls short of top marks on conciseness (some textbook concept restatement), actionability (no concrete search-execution commands), and workflow clarity (no search-revision feedback loop).

Suggestions

Trim concept restatement: compress the Review Types definitions and PICO bullets to one-line references since Claude already knows these, keeping only the decision guidance on which rigor level to pick.

Add concrete search-execution examples per database (e.g., PubMed E-utilities URL and arXiv API query) so Step 2-3 are mechanically executable rather than only well-planned.

Add a feedback loop after screening: if the yield is too low or overwhelmingly off-topic, revise the search strings or broaden criteria and log the re-run, mirroring the validate-fix-retry pattern.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and procedural with compact tables and checklists, but the Review Types definitions and the PICO bullet breakdown restate concepts Claude already knows, fitting the minor-over-explanation anchor rather than the every-token-earns-its-place one.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete, copy-paste-ready guidance throughout — ordered dedup rules, staged screening with explicit exclusion reasons, markdown templates, and a real PubMed query string in the search-log example — but no concrete mechanism for actually executing searches per database, keeping it below the fully-executable anchor.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Eight clearly numbered, well-sequenced steps with an explicit pre-finalization validation step (Step 8: verify citations) and checklists, but there is no feedback loop for error recovery such as revising the search when screening yields too few or too many results.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A single self-contained file with clear, well-organized sections and no nested references, which is appropriate; however, at ~185 lines with no bundle, the output template and example tables are borderline candidates for a separate reference file, so structure is good rather than optimal.

4 / 5

Total

16

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20

Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: it states a concrete multi-stage workflow in third person and pairs it with an explicit, task-level "Use when" trigger. Its only weaknesses are a few missing natural synonyms and mild overlap in trigger space with general research skills.

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Specificity

Enumerates five concrete workflow actions — "search planning, source screening, synthesis, citation checks, and evidence logging" — covering the full review pipeline, matching the comprehensive-coverage anchor rather than the minor-gaps anchor below it.

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers what ("Systematic literature-review workflow... including search planning, source screening, synthesis, citation checks, and evidence logging") and when ("Use when the task is to find, screen, synthesize, and cite a body of academic or technical literature") with a concrete trigger clause, matching the anchor for both clearly stated.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases like "literature-review", "academic or technical", and "find, screen, synthesize, and cite" are present, but common user synonyms such as "papers", "survey the literature", "systematic review", or "references" are missing, placing it just below the comprehensive-synonyms anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The literature-review niche is distinct with review-specific triggers (screening, citation checks, evidence logging), but "find... synthesize... cite" literature overlaps general research/deep-research skills, fitting the minor-overlap anchor rather than the minimal-conflict one.

4 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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Total

15

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16

Passed

Repository

affaan-m/ECC

Path

skills/scientific-thinking-literature-review/SKILL.md

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