research-lit
research-lit discovers research papers on any topic by searching your personal library, Zotero collections, local PDFs, and academic web sources in one query. It extracts key ideas, pulls annotations, and generates summaries to accelerate literature review work. Configure which sources to prioritize or download papers directly to your collection.
research-lit finds and summarizes research papers on your topic across multiple academic sources.
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Install
wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/research-lit · repository language: Python
git clone https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
cp -r Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/skills/research-lit ~/.claude/skills/research-litFrequently asked questions
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What sources does research-lit search for papers?
research-lit discovers research papers by searching your personal library, Zotero collections, local PDFs, and academic web sources in one query. You can configure which sources to prioritize based on your workflow, allowing you to aggregate papers from multiple databases and repositories simultaneously.
Can research-lit find papers on machine learning?
Yes. research-lit is designed to find and summarize research papers on any topic, including machine learning. Simply enter your topic and research-lit will search across your configured sources—personal libraries, Zotero, arXiv, and web sources—to locate relevant papers and generate summaries to accelerate your literature review.
How does research-lit help with literature reviews?
research-lit accelerates literature review work by extracting key ideas and pulling annotations from papers it discovers. It generates summaries of research papers by theme, helping you synthesize academic content across multiple sources. You can search for related work, locate similar papers, and organize findings with citations all in one tool.
Can I search papers in my Zotero library with research-lit?
Yes. research-lit integrates with Zotero collections, allowing you to search papers stored in your Zotero library alongside personal PDFs, local files, and web sources. You can also download papers directly to your Zotero collection after discovery.
What can research-lit tell me about a specific paper?
research-lit can analyze and synthesize academic papers, extracting what they say about specific topics—for example, what a paper discusses regarding transformers or diffusion models. It pulls key concepts, annotations, and generates summaries to help you quickly understand a paper's contributions and relevance to your research.
Does research-lit support searching recent arXiv papers?
Yes. research-lit searches academic web sources including arXiv, enabling you to find recent papers on topics like NLP, computer vision, and deep learning. It aggregates results across multiple databases so you can discover cutting-edge research in one query without visiting each source separately.
SKILL.md
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Research Literature Review
Research topic: $ARGUMENTS
Constants
- PAPER_LIBRARY — Local directory containing user's paper collection (PDFs). Check these paths in order:
papers/in the current project directoryliterature/in the current project directory- Custom path specified by user in
CLAUDE.mdunder## Paper Library - MAX_LOCAL_PAPERS = 20 — Maximum number of local PDFs to scan (read first 3 pages each). If more are found, prioritize by filename relevance to the topic.
- SOURCES =
all— Which literature sources to search. Options:zotero,obsidian,local,web,semantic-scholar,deepxiv,exa,gemini,openalex,all. Full source table and selection rules: see## Data Sourcesbelow. - ARXIV_DOWNLOAD = false —
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