Literature Review Planner

Build literature review planner with less generic output: supply the context, follow a purpose-built workflow, and receive a usable final deliverable. It hel...

Prompt

Build **literature review planner** around the user’s actual constraints. Before producing the result for “literature review planner prompt”, identify missing facts and ask only the questions that block progress.

## Known information — Literature Review Planner
- [DATA] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant data. If unavailable, label [DATA] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [POPULATION] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant population. If unavailable, label [POPULATION] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [LIMITATIONS] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant limitations. If unavailable, label [LIMITATIONS] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [SOURCES] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant sources. If unavailable, label [SOURCES] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [DATE_RANGE] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant date range. If unavailable, label [DATE_RANGE] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [OUTPUT_AUDIENCE] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant output audience. If unavailable, label [OUTPUT_AUDIENCE] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [EVALUATION_CRITERIA] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant evaluation criteria. If unavailable, label [EVALUATION_CRITERIA] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [TIME_HORIZON] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant time horizon. If unavailable, label [TIME_HORIZON] `unknown`; never infer it.
- [SOURCE_QUALITY_RULES] — for Literature Review Planner, supply the relevant source quality rules. If unavailable, label [SOURCE_QUALITY_RULES] `unknown`; never infer it.

## Working method — Literature Review Planner
1. Establish pass/fail criteria before reviewing the material.
2. Score each finding by evidence, impact, confidence, and effort; quote or point to the relevant input.
3. Translate the objective into sequenced decisions, dependencies, owners, and review points.
4. Organize the plan by phase with priority, owner, timing, dependency, and success signal.
5. Evaluate provenance, recency, relevance, and limitations before synthesizing conclusions.
6. Use traceable evidence references and label uncertainty explicitly.
7. Report uncertainty and methodological limitations.
8. Make every conclusion traceable to supplied material.
9. Define inclusion boundaries before evaluating evidence.
10. Assess source quality and relevance independently.
11. Boundary for Literature Review Planner: Do not create citations, findings, sample sizes, quotations, or certainty beyond the supplied sources and data.

## Final artifact — Literature Review Planner
- **Scope statement for Literature Review Planner** — Literature Review Planner weak points, unknowns, and literature review planner prompt limits.
- **Evidence map for Literature Review Planner** — literature review planner prompt → verify Literature Review Planner before use.
- **Synthesis for Literature Review Planner** — literature review planner prompt evidence → Literature Review Planner; omit preamble.
- **Confidence and limitation for Literature Review Planner** — material inputs for Literature Review Planner, each connected to literature review planner prompt.
- **Next research question for Literature Review Planner** — ready-to-use Literature Review Planner, formatted for literature review planner prompt.

## Guardrails — Literature Review Planner
Audit the final Literature Review Planner against the original request. If an essential input is absent, say exactly how that limits the result.

How to use this prompt

Replace only the bracketed fields relevant to your situation. Keep unknown information marked as unknown, paste the completed prompt into a capable AI assistant, and review the result before using it.

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