TenWalk IEEE Literature Search and Verification
Use this skill to gather and verify literature evidence before writing the Introduction, Related Work, citations, or cover-letter significance claims. It is a search-and-verification skill, not a license to pad references.
Core stance
- Search live for current literature. For "latest", "recent", venue policy, DOI, metadata, or title verification, use available web/connectors rather than memory.
- Prefer primary sources. Publisher pages, IEEE Xplore, arXiv records, DOI/Crossref pages, and authors' accepted manuscripts beat blog summaries.
- Verify before formatting. Title, author order, venue, year, volume/issue/pages, DOI, and arXiv ID must come from a source. Missing fields stay missing.
- Organize by mechanism and gap. Related work should help the paper argue a technical gap, not become a chronological bibliography.
- Do not overclaim novelty. Search can support "differs from" and "to the best of our checked sources", but not universal first-ever claims without strong evidence.
When to open extra files
| File | Open when |
|---|---|
| references/search-strategy.md | Planning queries, source selection, venue/time filters, keyword expansion, or novelty checks |
| references/verification-and-bibtex.md | Verifying metadata, DOI/arXiv records, BibTeX, citation keys, and IEEE reference fields |
Use ieee-citation after search to format final references, and ieee-writing to turn the
related-work map into manuscript prose.
Workflow
- Extract the search intent: background survey, related-work paragraph, novelty check, DOI verification, BibTeX export, or citation-gap audit.
- Build query families: system/task, method, metric, venue, and synonyms/acronyms.
- Search primary sources and note exact source URLs/DOIs/arXiv IDs. For recent work, include the date range searched.
- Screen for relevance: same system model, same metric, same assumption, or same method family.
- Verify metadata before creating BibTeX or numbered references.
- Build a related-work matrix: paper -> problem -> method -> limitation -> how the user's work differs.
- Return gaps and confidence: what was searched, what remains uncertain, and which claims need softer language.
Output format
Search strategy:query families, venues/sources, date range, inclusion criteria.Verified references:citation-ready metadata with DOI/arXiv/source links and missing fields.Related-work matrix:Paper -> problem/method -> key result -> limitation -> relevance.Citation/BibTeX notes:fields to pass toieee-citation, including uncertain abbreviations.Novelty and gap note:what can be claimed safely and what needs more evidence.