Literature Reports

Create or update literature reviews/reports as markdown documents with citations.

Finding Papers

• Check .asta/literature/find/ for existing search results before running new searches.
• Use the Find Literature skill for comprehensive searches and for the result schema and jq access patterns.
• Use the Semantic Scholar Lookup skill for targeted queries: specific papers, citations, and author searches.

Workflow Guidance

• Identify or create the report file first. Check if there's an existing report to update. New reports go in user-visible locations (e.g., docs/), not inside .asta/.
• When updating an existing report, read it first to understand the current structure and content.
• When using Find Literature results, go through ALL highly relevant papers — extract relevance criteria, snippets, and citation contexts from each.

Citation Conventions

YAML frontmatter — required for citation resolution:

---
bibliography: ../references.bib
---

Citations: Use [@key] format. Every key must exist in the .bib file — unresolved keys won't render.

Adding papers to .bib: As you cite a paper, fetch its metadata and append a BibTeX entry:

asta papers get CorpusId:<id> --fields title,authors,year,venue,externalIds,journal,publicationDate

Generate a BibTeX entry from the result. Conventions:

• Key: {firstAuthorSurname}{year} lowercased, ASCII only (e.g., wei2022). Append a letter for conflicts (wei2022a).
• corpus_id: Include corpus_id = {<id>} for stable identification (survives key renames).
• Append to the .bib — never rewrite existing entries.

Verification: Use the Preview skill to render and verify all citations resolve.