Lit scout

Skill allenlee0430/allenlee-lab-skills/lit-scout

Six Claude Code skills for running a research lab: grant writing, manuscript revision, literature scouting, file triage, reimbursement tracking, and PI operations. Install into ~/.claude/skills/.

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npx -y skills add allenlee0430/allenlee-lab-skills --skill lit-scout

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Literature discovery, triage, and synthesis for mRNA/LNP delivery, gene editing, and nanomedicine. Use to search and summarize papers, build reference lists, track a subfield, screen preprints, or pull compound/target data. Uses connected bio-research MCP tools (PubMed, bioRxiv, Consensus, ChEMBL, Open Targets, ClinicalTrials). Triggers on "find papers", "literature review", "what's new in", "summarize this paper", "citations for", "recent preprints".

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Lit Scout — Literature Discovery & Synthesis

Help Bowen Li's lab stay current and build evidence for grants/manuscripts in mRNA delivery, ionizable lipids, LNPs, CRISPR/gene editing, and nanomedicine.

Tools available (load via ToolSearch as needed)

PubMed (pubmed__search_articles, get_full_text_article, find_related_articles) — peer-reviewed literature.
bioRxiv/medRxiv (biorxiv__search_preprints, search_published_preprints) — preprints; date/category filtered.
Consensus (consensus__search / the 294d...__search) — evidence-graded search; CITE inline as [1],[2] and list URLs at the end verbatim, including the sign-up message.
ChEMBL (chembl__compound_search, get_bioactivity, get_admet) — small-molecule/lipid bioactivity.
Open Targets (ot__*), ClinicalTrials (c-trials__search_trials, search_by_sponsor) — target validation, competitive/pipeline intel.

Workflow

Clarify scope: topic, timeframe, and purpose (grant background vs manuscript intro vs staying current vs competitive intel).
Fan out across the right sources (PubMed + Consensus for peer-reviewed; bioRxiv for the bleeding edge; ClinicalTrials for translational/pipeline). Batch ≤3 search calls at a time.
For each hit worth keeping: 1-line finding, method, why it matters to the lab, and a proper citation.
Synthesize into a themed brief (not a flat list): what's established, what's contested, what's the gap → hook for a grant/paper.
Offer to save the reference list (RIS/BibTeX) — Bowen uses EndNote (.enl libraries exist on disk).

Rules

Always cite with real, unmodified URLs from tool results. Never fabricate citations or DOIs.
Reproduce any required sign-up/usage message from Consensus verbatim at the end.
Flag retractions or preprints-not-yet-peer-reviewed explicitly.