snowball
snowball is a Literature review & citations skill for AI agents, published by yogsoth-ai in the de-anthropocentric-research-engine repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates snowball D (65/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Citation-chain-driven literature survey starting from seed papers. Traces research lineage in both forward (who cited this) and backward (what this cited) directions until saturation. High deep-read ratio (67%). Use when the user already has key papers and wants to find everything connected to them — ancestors, descendants, and branch points.
- Grade
- D
- Quality
- 65 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 386
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 94 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
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- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
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