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Decide Fit First

Core job: Systematic literature review methodology including search strategy, screening, and synthesis. Use when conducting literature rev…
Best fit: Use it when the task has reusable inputs, steps, and validation criteria rather than a one-off answer.
Avoid forcing it: If the source lacks commands, platform support, or external-service evidence, keep those fields unknown instead of guessing.

Design Intent

Structure: The skill is organized around “Literature Search Best Practice”, “Search Strategy Design”, “Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria”, “PRISMA Methodology”, showing how the author expects the agent to judge fit, collect context, and produce verifiable output.
Trigger evidence: Prioritize the author’s wording around when to use it, what context to collect, and what output shape to produce.
Evidence boundary: Author text states facts, repository files prove commands and paths, and Fluxly only adds fit, limits, and usage judgment.

How To Use It

Inputs: Provide target material, scope, expected result, forbidden changes, and validation method.
Invocation: Name literature-search directly; if the source includes slash commands, start with the command and then add task context.
Validation: Start small and check whether the result follows “Literature Search Best Practice / Search Strategy Design / Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria” before expanding.

Boundaries And Review

Dependencies: It usually needs no extra API key, so start with a small validation task.
Permissions: Declared permissions include read; ask the agent to state file, command, and rollback boundaries before acting.
Quality bar: A useful result names the deliverable, evidence, and next action. Generic prose means the task needs tighter context.

Literature Search Best Practice

Search Strategy Design

Define research question using PICO framework (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
Identify 2-4 core concepts from the research question
List synonyms, abbreviations, and related terms for each concept
Combine terms with Boolean operators: AND (between concepts), OR (within synonyms)
Select at least 3 complementary databases relevant to the domain:
- Biomedical: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science
- Computer science: arXiv, Semantic Scholar, DBLP, ACL Anthology
- Interdisciplinary: Google Scholar, OpenAlex
Document exact search strings for reproducibility

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

Define date range (e.g., last 5-10 years for rapidly evolving fields)
Specify language restrictions (typically English)
Specify publication types (peer-reviewed, preprints, conference papers)
Define study design requirements (RCTs, observational, computational)
Set domain-specific filters (species, methodology, sample size)
Document all criteria BEFORE screening begins

PRISMA Methodology

Record total hits from each database before deduplication
Remove duplicates and record count
Screen titles and abstracts against inclusion criteria (record excluded count)
Full-text review of remaining papers (record excluded with reasons)
Report final included studies with PRISMA flow diagram
For scoping reviews, use PRISMA-ScR extension

Screening and Quality Assessment

Use two-pass screening: title/abstract first, then full text
Apply quality assessment tools appropriate to study type:
- RCTs: Cochrane Risk of Bias tool
- Observational: Newcastle-Ottawa Scale
- ML papers: check reproducibility, dataset validity, statistical rigor
Extract data systematically using a predefined extraction form

Synthesis Approaches

Narrative synthesis: Organize findings thematically, identify patterns and contradictions
Meta-analysis: Pool quantitative results when studies are sufficiently homogeneous
Gap analysis: Explicitly identify what is NOT covered in the literature
Summarize key findings per theme with supporting citation counts
Highlight conflicting results and possible explanations
End with clear statement of research gaps that motivate your study

Fluxly profile Author and license come from source; runtime, permissions, and network are Fluxly detections or estimates

Fluxly category: Writing
Author-declared agents: No explicit declaration found; this is not inferred or tested compatibility
Static check: 88 / 100 · heuristic scan, not runtime safety proof
Author / version / license: @aiming-lab · no license declared
Fluxly token estimate: Lean
Fluxly setup estimate: Plug-and-play
External API key: No requirement detected
Detected OS requirements: Unspecified
Runtime requirements: Unspecified
Detected file/system behavior: Read-only
Detected network behavior: Local-only
Install commands: None (reference only)

Profile is derived at build time from SKILL.md and install vectors. Subject to drift from author intent.

Heads up: 未限定 allowed-tools，默认拥有全部工具权限。

Output preview literature-search.preview

The current SKILL.md does not define a fixed output example.

SKILL.md SKILL.md

## Literature Search Best Practice

### Search Strategy Design
1. Define research question using PICO framework (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome)
2. Identify 2-4 core concepts from the research question
3. List synonyms, abbreviations, and related terms for each concept
4. Combine terms with Boolean operators: AND (between concepts), OR (within synonyms)
5. Select at least 3 complementary databases relevant to the domain:
   - Biomedical: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science
   - Computer science: arXiv, Semantic Scholar, DBLP, ACL Anthology
   - Interdisciplinary: Google Scholar, OpenAlex
6. Document exact search strings for reproducibility

### Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
1. Define date range (e.g., last 5-10 years for rapidly evolving fields)
2. Specify language restrictions (typically English)
3. Specify publication types (peer-reviewed, preprints, conference papers)
4. Define study design requirements (RCTs, observational, computational)
5. Set domain-specific filters (species, methodology, sample size)
6. Document all criteria BEFORE screening begins

### PRISMA Methodology
1. Record total hits from each database before deduplication
2. Remove duplicates and record count
3. Screen titles and abstracts against inclusion criteria (record excluded count)
4. Full-text review of remaining papers (record excluded with reasons)
5. Report final included studies with PRISMA flow diagram
6. For scoping reviews, use PRISMA-ScR extension

### Screening and Quality Assessment
1. Use two-pass screening: title/abstract first, then full text
2. Apply quality assessment tools appropriate to study type:
   - RCTs: Cochrane Risk of Bias tool
   - Observational: Newcastle-Ottawa Scale
   - ML papers: check reproducibility, dataset validity, statistical rigor

…

Evidence boundary and execution chain

Author text anchors workflow facts; Fluxly only indexes current sections, terms, files, and commands.

sections -> Literature Search Best Practice → Search Strategy Design → Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria → PRISMA Methodology → Screening and Quality Assessment → Synthesis Approaches
terms    -> Narrative synthesis · Meta-analysis · Gap analysis
files/cmd -> title/abstract
body sha256 -> 64f1337a3826