Literature Review

Conduct a structured literature search and synthesis on the given topic.

Input: $ARGUMENTS, a topic, paper title, research question, or phenomenon to investigate.

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Steps

1. Parse the topic from $ARGUMENTS. If a specific paper is named, use it as the anchor.

2. Search for related work using available tools:

   • Check master_supporting_docs/supporting_papers/ for uploaded papers
   • Use WebSearch to find recent publications (if available)
   • Use WebFetch to access working paper repositories (if available)
   • Read any existing .bib file for papers already in the project

3. Organize findings into these categories:

   • Theoretical contributions, models, frameworks, mechanisms
   • Empirical findings, key results, effect sizes, data sources
   • Methodological innovations, new estimators, identification strategies, inference methods
   • Open debates, unresolved disagreements in the literature

4. Identify gaps and opportunities:

   • What questions remain unanswered?
   • What data or methods could address them?
   • Where do findings conflict?
   • How independent is the support? For any finding you call consistent or replicated, give the apparent count and the independent count, studies that share an experiment, dataset, sample or research team count once.
   • What went the other way? For each headline finding, search for null results and failed replications and report them, or say none were found and give the search terms used.

5. Extract citations in BibTeX format for all papers discussed.

6. Save the report to quality_reports/lit_review_[sanitized_topic].md

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Output Format

# Literature Review: [Topic]

**Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD]
**Query:** [Original query from user]

## Summary

[2-3 paragraph overview of the state of the literature]

## Key Papers