What do I need to use Literature Review?

Topic or research question; Type of review; Sources provided; Word count target; Audience; Time period to cover.

Is Literature Review free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Literature Review

Q: How do I know the Literature Review output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Organised thematically (not as individual paper summaries); Evidence synthesised across papers (not summarised one by one); Critical analysis of methodology included for key studies; Gaps identified — what the field still needs.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-08 ✅ 4/5 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-research

Structure and write a literature review for any research topic. Use when asked to write a literature review, systematic review summary, narrative review, or research background section. Produces a structured review with thematic organisation, critical analysis, and gap identification.

📚 Based on PRISMA systematic-review guidelines

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“Write a literature review on [topic]”“Synthesise the evidence on [topic] from these papers: [paste]”“Write the background section for my research proposal on [topic]”

What to give it

▸Topic or research question

▸Type of review — narrative / systematic / scoping / integrative / background section

▸Sources provided — paste references, abstracts, or key findings

▸Word count target

▸Audience — academic journal / thesis / grant proposal / policy brief

▸Time period to cover

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Organised thematically (not as individual paper summaries)

✓Evidence synthesised across papers (not summarised one by one)

✓Critical analysis of methodology included for key studies

✓Gaps identified — what the field still needs

✓All claims cited

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not summarise papers one by one — evidence must be synthesised thematically across multiple studies, not presented as a sequence of abstracts

Do not omit methodological critique — a literature review that only reports findings without assessing study quality is not a critical review

Do not organise by chronology when thematic organisation is possible — chronological reviews bury the conceptual structure of the field

Do not present contested findings as settled consensus — where evidence is mixed, name both sides and why the evidence diverges

Do not skip the gap analysis — identifying what the field still needs is a core deliverable, not an optional addition

Install

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# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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