literature-search
Use when the user asks to search for papers, review literature, find references on a topic, verify a paper exists, or build a bibliography. Enforces web verification of every citation via web fetch to prevent hallucinated references.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill literature-search --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Literature Search ## Overview This skill searches academic literature with strict web verification of every result. The primary anti-pattern it prevents is hallucination of citations — plausible-sounding papers that do not exist. Every paper returned must be fetched from the web and confirmed to be real before it enters the output. ## When to Use - "What does the literature say about X?" - "Find
What does the literature-search skill do?
Use when the user asks to search for papers, review literature, find references on a topic, verify a paper exists, or build a bibliography. Enforces web verification of every citation via web fetch to prevent hallucinated references.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill literature-search --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.