literature-sweep

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates the laborious process of gathering and organizing academic literature for theoretical pattern extraction (Stage 2, Stream A). It intelligently leverages available tools for searching and fetching, ensuring you have a robust theoretical foundation with minimal manual effort.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Intelligent Search & Fetch: Automatically searches academic databases (Exa) and fetches full content (Jina) with graceful degradation based on available API keys.
• Literature Inventory: Creates and updates a literature-inventory.json to track all sources, URLs, and local files.
• Output Organization: Organizes fetched papers into a structured directory for easy access and analysis.
• Use Case: Provide a research query like "sensemaking organizational change" and this skill will find, fetch, and organize relevant academic papers, creating a ready-to-analyze theoretical corpus.

Quick Start

Search for academic papers on 'sensemaking organizational change middle managers' and fetch the top 15 results: node skills/literature-sweep/scripts/search-and-fetch.js --project-path /path/to/project --query "sensemaking organizational change middle managers" --max-results 15