Literature Review

Academic PDF Summary

Instructions

1. Identify the PDF path provided by the user.
2. Read the PDF content with available file-reading tools (Note: the Read tool automatically converts PDF to text).
3. Extract the core points with evidence from the paper text:

• Main contributions
• Key limitations
• Open questions raised by the work
• Trivial but important implementation or methodological details

1. Write the summary to a .md file in the workspace (named after the paper's title or a descriptive name).
2. For every bullet point, append a source location in this format: (Source: p., ).
3. Use exactly this section order and markdown heading format below, note that the source locations are just examples and you should use the actual source locations from the paper.

## Contributions

1. contribution1 (Source: p.3, Introduction, para 2)
2. contribution2 (Source: p.5, Method, "Model architecture" paragraph)
3. contribution3 (Source: p.7, Results, Table 2 discussion)

## Limitations

1. limitation1 (Source: p.8, Limitations section, para 1)
2. limitation2 (Source: p.9, Discussion, final paragraph)
3. limitation3 (Source: p.6, Ablation study paragraph)

## Open Questions

1. question1 (Source: p.9, Future work paragraph)
2. question2 (Source: p.4, Assumptions subsection)
3. question3 (Source: p.10, Conclusion)

## Important Details

1. detail1 (Source: p.11, Appendix A, hyperparameters list)
2. detail2 (Source: p.6, Training setup paragraph)
3. detail3 (Source: p.5, Dataset preprocessing paragraph)

Output Rules

• Keep each list item concise and specific.
• Ground every point in the paper content; do not invent claims.
• If the paper has fewer than three strong points for a section, use the best available evidence and keep wording explicit.
• Every list item must include a source location with page number and a pinpoint cue (section title, table/figure reference, or short paragraph locator).
• Preserve the exact heading formatting and punctuation shown in the template.
• Output only Markdown in the generated .md file.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: Plusero
• Source: Plusero/agentic-research-skills
• License: CC0-1.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.