Name: Lit Scan
Author: willhammondhimself

Literature Scanner

Unified skill replacing /find-related and /arxiv-monitor. Searches for related papers, monitors arXiv, and manages the reading list.

Modes

Trigger: /lit-scan "query" or /lit-scan --search "query"

Search using available tools (in parallel where possible):
- paper-search-mcp (PRIMARY): Unified search across 22 academic sources (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex, DBLP, SSRN, Zenodo, Google Scholar, CORE, Europe PMC, CiteSeerX, DOAJ, BASE, HAL, Unpaywall, etc.). Use this as the first search tool.
- arxiv-latex-mcp: For math-heavy papers found in search, fetch raw LaTeX source to extract exact equations, theorem statements, and proof techniques. Use when relationship is competitor or foundation and relevance >= 8.
- Perplexity: for broad web-grounded results and non-academic sources

Unified skill replacing /find-related and /arxiv-monitor. Searches for related papers, monitors arXiv, and manages the reading list.

Trigger: /lit-scan "query" or /lit-scan --search "query"

Search using available tools (in parallel where possible):
- paper-search-mcp (PRIMARY): Unified search across 22 academic sources (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex, DBLP, SSRN, Zenodo, Google Scholar, CORE, Europe PMC, CiteSeerX, DOAJ, BASE, HAL, Unpaywall, etc.). Use this as the first search tool.
- arxiv-latex-mcp: For math-heavy papers found in search, fetch raw LaTeX source to extract exact equations, theorem statements, and proof techniques. Use when relationship is competitor or foundation and relevance >= 8.
- Perplexity: for broad web-grounded results and non-academic sources