AB litreview
Searches academic literature through free, keyless PubMed and OpenAlex APIs, optionally augments results with Consensus MCP when connected, builds a PICO, SPIDER, decomposition, or hybrid search plan, and produces a formatted Word research-orientation guide. Uses brief intake and post-reconnaissance checkpoints to confirm the framework, sub-areas, and depth (5, 10, or 20 queries) before spending the search budget. The output is a launching pad, not a finished review. Use when the user requests a literature review, starts a paper or literature-oriented research project, or needs structured research on a topic. Do NOT use for a single paper lookup or a quick paper list; use a plain PubMed, OpenAlex, or Consensus query instead.
Searches academic literature through free, keyless PubMed and OpenAlex APIs, optionally augments results with Consensus MCP when connected, builds a PICO…
As a process B 72/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: inputs and preconditions, running it twice
How to improve
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 8. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 72/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 30Running it twice. 4 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 70Execution cost. Instruction body is 4262 tokens
- 100Steps. 82 steps
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Failures and branches. 2 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- low 14 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
- low The response is described with custom markup (4 tags): a typed call is more reliable
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Description says when NOT to use the skill
- +3Description length 734: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 28 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 82 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (3 of 3)
- +3All 4 scripts are documented
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 99.