Systematic writing framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers from optimized outline to submission-ready manuscript. Use when users want to: (1) write a paper from a detailed outline, (2) ensure quality control during wr...

Systematic strategic planning framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers targeting preprint platforms (PhilArchive, arXiv, PhilSci-Archive). Use when users want to: (1) plan a paper on a specific topic, (2) identify rese...

Draft economics papers with proper structure and academic style

Generates publication-quality figures for ML papers from research context. Given a paper section or description, extracts system components and relationships to generate architecture diagrams via Gemini. Given experiment results or data, au...

Guide for creating DAAF agent definition files. Covers 12-section template, hook registration, skills-in-frontmatter, integration checklist. Use when adding or revising agents. For SKILL.md files, use skill-authoring instead.

End-to-end data analysis dispatching Coder and Data-engineer for implementation, coder-critic for review. Supports R, Stata, Python, Julia. Replaces /data-analysis.

Main orchestration workflow for systematic literature research - search, evaluate, traverse, synthesize

Fetch economic data from FRED, World Bank, and other APIs

Route empirical-research requests through the Auto-Empirical Research Skills catalog when this whole repository is installed as one skill in Codex, CodeBuddy, Claude Code, or another IDE. Use to choose and load the right vendored AERS skill...

Orchestrates end-to-end autonomous AI research projects using a two-loop architecture. The inner loop runs rapid experiment iterations with clear optimization targets. The outer loop synthesizes results, identifies patterns, and steers rese...

This skill covers Bayesian estimation and inference in quantitative social science. Use when the user is specifying priors, running MCMC, diagnosing chain convergence, or reporting posterior summaries — including hierarchical models, Bayesi...

Create academic presentations in Beamer with professional themes

Collaboratively build and refine paper screening rubrics through brainstorming, test-driven development, and iterative feedback

This skill covers causal inference methods in observational and quasi-experimental settings. Use when the user is implementing, choosing between, or debugging causal identification strategies — including instrumental variables, difference-i...

This skill should be used when the user asks to "implement a DiD regression", "write a causal inference pipeline", "set up an event study", "implement instrumental variables", "run a regression discontinuity design", "build a synthetic cont...

Run IV, DiD, and RDD analyses in R with proper diagnostics. Use when implementing causal inference methods, event studies, or treatment effect estimation.

This skill covers causal machine learning methods in applied economics and quantitative social science. Use when implementing or choosing between modern ML-based causal estimators — including double machine learning, DML, partially linear m...

Check if medicinal chemistry papers are in ChEMBL database to access curated bioactivity data

Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to...

Safely remove intermediate files from completed research sessions while preserving important data

Simplify and clean up code after changes are complete. Reduces complexity, improves readability, and ensures consistency.

Stage, commit, create PR, and merge to main. Use for the standard commit-PR-merge cycle.

Stage, commit, create PR, and merge to main. Use for the standard commit-PR-merge cycle.

Commit changes, push to remote, and create a pull request. Use for completing features or fixes ready for review.

Create and compile beautiful Beamer presentations following the Rhetoric of Decks philosophy. Use when making slides, creating decks, or compiling .tex presentation files.

Compile a LaTeX manuscript with pdflatex (3 passes + bibtex). Use when compiling the research paper.

Compile a Beamer LaTeX slide deck with XeLaTeX (3 passes + bibtex). Use when compiling lecture slides.

Show current context status and session health. Use to check how much context has been used, whether auto-compact is approaching, and what state will be preserved.

Create new Beamer lecture from papers and materials. Guided workflow with notation consistency.

Operational framework for the DAAF orchestrator. Defines engagement modes, confirmation protocol, subagent dispatch, context budget, and reference-loading. Loaded exclusively by the orchestrator — not for subagents or user questions.

End-to-end R data analysis workflow from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures.

End-to-end data analysis workflow in R or Python — from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to run any empirical analysis, write analysis code, or produ...

End-to-end R data analysis workflow from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures

Find and assess datasets for a research question. Dispatches Explorer agents to search across data source categories, then Explorer-Critic to stress-test each candidate. Produces a ranked list with feasibility grades. Make sure to use this...

Data science methodology for Python research: EDA, validation, causal inference (IV, DiD, RD, synthetic control), clustering/PCA/UMAP, supervised ML, geospatial, visualization. Method selection guidance. For syntax, load tool-specific skill...

Deep consistency audit of the entire repository — launches 4 parallel specialist agents to find factual errors, code bugs, broken references, count mismatches, and cross-document inconsistencies, then fixes all issues and loops until clean....

Deep consistency audit of the entire repository infrastructure. Launches 4 parallel specialist agents to find factual errors, code bugs, count mismatches, and cross-document inconsistencies. Then fixes all issues and loops until clean. Use...

Render Quarto slides and sync to docs/ for GitHub Pages deployment. Use when deploying lecture slides after making changes.

Challenge research design decisions, assumptions, and methodology choices with specific critical questions. Helps strengthen the paper before submission.

Challenge slide design with 5-7 pedagogical questions. Checks ordering, prerequisites, and cognitive load.

Discovery phase combining research interviews, literature search, data discovery, and ideation. Routes to appropriate agents based on arguments. Replaces /interview-me, /lit-review, /find-data, /research-ideation.

Julia-based econometric and structural estimation for computationally intensive tasks. Use for structural models, maximum likelihood, GMM, numerical optimization, simulations, and high-performance computing. Covers DataFrames.jl, FixedEffec...

R-based econometric analysis for academic research. Use when writing R code for panel data, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, spatial econometrics, or regression analysis. Covers data.table, fixest, sf, modelsummary, and pu...

Create publication-quality charts and graphs for economics papers.

Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets. Coded values (-1/-2/-3), year definitions, grade encoding, suppression, licensing, cross-source joins. Use when interpreting Portal data before analysis. Routes to source-specific...

Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE). Use to map questions to data. Load before education-data-query — discovery here, download there.

Downloads education datasets from configured mirror sources (parquet/CSV) with local Polars filtering. Use when writing fetch scripts or retrieving CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, SAIPE data. Load after education-data-explorer — retrieval here, not disco...

CSS — annual Clery Act crime/fire safety for Title IV institutions. Portal: hate crimes only (2005-2021); primary offenses, VAWA, arrests, fire safety need ope.ed.gov directly. Use for campus crime analysis. Identified by IPEDS unitid.

CCD — federal universe of all U.S. public K-12 schools (~100K) and districts (~18K). Enrollment, staffing, finance, directory data (1986-present). Use for public school analysis by grade/race/sex. Public only; excludes private and postsecon...

CRDC — biennial OCR survey of all U.S. public schools (2011-2021). Discipline, course access, harassment, restraint/seclusion by race/sex/disability/EL. Use for civil rights and equity analysis. 2020-21 COVID-impacted; 2011-14 sampled, not...

EADA — college athletics gender equity (~2,000+ institutions, 2002-2021). Participation, coaching, salaries, expenses, revenues, athletic aid by gender. Not Title IX compliance data. No sector column; join IPEDS on unitid for institution ty...

This skill covers applied microeconomic empirical methods and research design. Use when the user is selecting an identification strategy, comparing estimators, running diagnostics, designing a research study, or evaluating an empirical stra...

Run a structural estimation pipeline — routes to /workflows:work with estimation context from empirical-playbook

Two-stage paper screening - abstract scoring then deep dive for specific data extraction

Extract TikZ diagrams from Beamer source, compile to PDF, convert to SVG with 0-based indexing. Use when updating TikZ diagrams for Quarto slides.

Use Unpaywall API to find free full-text versions of paywalled papers

Defamiliarization audit for empirical output. Systematically interrogates every feature of a figure, table, or set of results — not just the main finding. Named for Jason Fletcher, who asked about the spike at t=1 when everyone else was loo...

Classical end-to-end empirical analysis workflow in the traditional Python econometric stack — pandas + numpy + scipy + statsmodels + linearmodels + pyfixest + rdrobust + econml + causalml + matplotlib/seaborn. **Defaults to economics empir...

Classical end-to-end empirical analysis workflow in the modern tidyverse + econometrics R ecosystem — dplyr + tidyr + haven + fixest + sandwich + lmtest + clubSandwich + AER + ivreg + did + bacondecomp + HonestDiD + eventstudyr + rdrobust +...

Classical end-to-end empirical analysis workflow in the traditional Stata ecosystem — native Stata + reghdfe + ivreg2 + csdid + did_imputation + eventstudyinteract + sdid + rdrobust + rddensity + synth + synth_runner + psmatch2 + teffects +...

This skill covers game-theoretic methods in structural econometrics and industrial organization. Use when the user is working with strategic interactions, equilibrium analysis, or game-theoretic structural models — including entry games, co...

Build and solve Walrasian general equilibrium models with theory derivations and Julia computation

Introduction to literature search & review skills - systematic paper finding, screening, extraction, and citation traversal

Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. Use when you have experimental observations or data and need to formulate testable hypotheses with predictions, propose mechanisms, and design experiments to test them. Follows scientific...

Generate testable hypotheses. Formulate from observations, design experiments, explore competing explanations, develop predictions, propose mechanisms, for scientific inquiry across domains.

This skill covers formal identification arguments and proofs in structural and reduced-form econometrics. Use when the user needs to prove or formalize that a parameter is identified — including writing identification propositions, stating...

Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy

Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy.

Universal LaTeX document skill: create, compile, and convert any document to professional PDF with PNG previews. Supports resumes, reports, cover letters, invoices, academic papers, theses/dissertations, academic CVs, presentations (Beamer)...

Write and typeset economic models in LaTeX with proper notation

Generate publication-ready regression tables in LaTeX.

Extract reusable knowledge from the current session into a persistent skill. Use when you discover something non-obvious, create a workaround, or develop a multi-step workflow that future sessions would benefit from.

Full autonomous research workflow — brainstorm, plan, implement, review, and document

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthe...

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthe...

Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification.

Structured literature review using a parallel fleet of Librarian agents. Searches top journals, working paper repositories (NBER, SSRN, IZA), and traces citation chains from key papers. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to...

Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification

Search, summarize, and synthesize economics literature

Write comprehensive literature reviews for medical imaging AI research. Use when writing survey papers, systematic reviews, or literature analyses on topics like segmentation, detection, classification in CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, or path...

Write publication-ready ML/AI/Systems papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions...

Full research pipeline from idea to paper. Orchestrates all phases — discovery, strategy, analysis, writing, peer review, and submission. Use when starting a new research project from scratch.

Start a new research project by conducting a structured interview to formalize a research idea, then generates research questions with identification strategies and a project spec. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to deve...

Scaffold a new research project with standard directory structure, CLAUDE.md template, and documented README. Use this at the start of every new project to ensure consistent organization.

Generate professional slide deck images from academic papers and content. Creates comprehensive outlines with style instructions, auto-detects figures from PDFs, then generates individual slide images. Use when user asks to "create slides",...

Run holistic pedagogical review on lecture slides. Checks narrative arc, student prerequisites, worked examples, notation clarity, and deck pacing.

Systematic peer review toolkit. Evaluate methodology, statistics, design, reproducibility, ethics, figure integrity, reporting standards, for manuscript and grant review across disciplines.

Run the proofreading protocol on manuscript files. Checks grammar, typos, overflow, consistency, and academic writing quality. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the proofreading protocol on lecture files. Checks grammar, typos, overflow, consistency, and academic writing quality. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the proofreading protocol on academic writing — papers or manuscripts. Checks grammar, typos, layout issues, consistency, and academic writing quality. Produces a report without editing files. Make sure to use this skill whenever the us...

This skill covers publication-quality tables and figures for academic research papers. Use when formatting regression results, summary statistics, Monte Carlo output, or research visualizations for LaTeX inclusion. Triggers on "table", "fig...

Panel data analysis with Python using linearmodels and pandas.

Adversarial Quarto vs Beamer QA. Critic finds issues, fixer applies fixes, loops until APPROVED (max 5 rounds).

Verify that every quantitative claim in the paper is traceable to an analysis output file, and that no important output was omitted. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to check that the paper and analysis are consistent bef...

Run IV, DiD, and RDD analyses in R with proper diagnostics

Systematic audit and review by Referee 2. Two modes — "deck" reviews slide presentations for rhetoric, visual quality, and compile cleanliness; "code" performs cross-language replication and econometric audit of empirical pipelines. Use whe...

Build and verify replication packages — routes to reproducibility-auditor agent

This skill covers reproducible research pipelines and replication packages. Use when the user is setting up a research project directory structure, configuring workflow managers (Make, Snakemake, DVC), managing computational environments, p...

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission...

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, and DARPA. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements...

Generate structured research questions, testable hypotheses, and empirical strategies from a topic or dataset.

Generate research questions from economic phenomena

Generate structured research questions, testable hypotheses, and empirical strategies from a topic or dataset

Generate academic research proposals for PhD applications. Use when user asks to "write a research proposal", "create PhD proposal", "generate research plan", "撰写研究计划", "写博士申请", "doctoral proposal", or mentions specific research...

Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin. Asks the user questions about their field, institution, journals, datasets, key researchers, and R color palette, then writes the answers into re...

All quality reviews — routes to appropriate critics based on target file type and flags. Replaces /paper-excellence, /proofread, /econometrics-check, /review-r, /review-paper.

Run the Julia code review protocol on Julia scripts. Checks code quality, type stability, parallel computing patterns, and scientific computing standards. Produces a report without editing files.

Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants substantive academic feedback on a paper —...

Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, identification strategy, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections.

Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections

Run the R code review protocol on R scripts. Checks code quality, reproducibility, domain correctness, and professional standards. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the R code review protocol on R scripts. Checks code quality, reproducibility, domain correctness, and professional standards. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the R code review protocol on R scripts. Checks code quality, reproducibility, domain correctness, and professional standards. Produces a report without editing files. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants their existing R...

R&R cycle — classify referee comments and route to appropriate agents. Replaces /respond-to-referee.

Apply the ScholarEval framework to systematically evaluate scholarly work across quality dimensions (novelty, rigor, significance, and clarity). Use to critique academic papers, research proposals, literature reviews, or grant applications...

Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims.

Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process: (1) create section outlines with key points using research-lookup, (2) convert to flowing prose...

Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing pros...

Implements the Spec-Driven Development lifecycle (Intent, Requirements, Design, Tasks, Build) for structured feature development. Use when the user wants to scaffold a new feature spec, generate EARS requirements, create a technical design,...

PubMed search with keyword optimization, result parsing, and metadata extraction

Full autonomous research workflow using swarm mode for parallel execution

Multi-agent slide review (visual, pedagogy, proofreading). Use for comprehensive quality check before milestones.

Download, split, and deeply read academic PDFs. Use when asked to read, review, or summarize an academic paper. Splits PDFs into 4-page chunks, reads them in small batches, and produces structured reading notes — avoiding context window cra...

Comprehensive Stata reference for writing correct .do files, data management, econometrics, causal inference, graphics, Mata programming, and 17+ community packages (reghdfe, estout, did, rdrobust, etc.). Covers syntax, options, gotchas, an...

Clean and transform messy data in Stata with reproducible workflows

Run regression analyses in Stata with publication-ready output tables.

Use when the user asks to run a full empirical / causal analysis in Python — by default in the style of an applied economics paper (AER / QJE / JPE / ReStud / AEJ) with DID / RD / IV / SCM / DML / matching, written-out estimating equation +...

End-to-end statistical writing assistant for LaTeX - draft title/abstract/keywords, expand outlines into sections, audit manuscripts, write reviewer reports and response letters, and scaffold book manuscripts.

Design identification strategy or pre-analysis plan. Dispatches Strategist (proposer) and strategist-critic (validator). Replaces /identify and /pre-analysis-plan.

This skill covers structural econometric models. Use when the user is building, estimating, or debugging structural models — including BLP demand estimation, dynamic discrete choice, auction models, or any workflow involving moment conditio...

Use parallel subagents for large-scale paper screening and deep dive analysis

This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management. Use when the user is preparing a manuscript for submission, formatting for a specific journal, responding to referees, or managing revisions. Trigger...

Submission pipeline — journal targeting, replication package, audit, and final gate. Replaces /submit, /target-journal, /audit-replication, /data-deposit.

Create and audit presentations (Beamer or Quarto RevealJS). Combines talk creation, visual audit, and compilation. Replaces /create-talk, /visual-audit, /compile-latex (for talks).

Find and fix technical debt including duplicated code, dead code, outdated patterns, and code smells. Run at the end of sessions to clean up.

Utility commands — commit, compile, validate-bib, journal, context-status, deploy, learn. Replaces individual utility skills.

Translate Beamer LaTeX to Quarto RevealJS. Multi-phase workflow with TikZ extraction and QA.

Smart backward and forward citation following via Semantic Scholar, with relevance filtering and deduplication

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all source files. Find missing entries and unused references. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user has any concern about bibliography completeness or citation keys. Triggers includ...

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all lecture files. Find missing entries and unused references.

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all manuscript files. Find missing entries and unused references.

Perform adversarial visual audit of Quarto or Beamer slides checking for overflow, font consistency, box fatigue, and layout issues.

Explore methodological approaches through structured analysis before planning implementation

Document a recently solved research problem to compound methodological knowledge

Divergent research ideation — generate many candidate directions, then adversarially filter to the strongest

Transform research descriptions into well-structured implementation plans following project conventions

Run multi-agent econometric review on estimation code, identification arguments, and research artifacts

Execute research implementation plans efficiently while maintaining estimation quality and finishing features

Draft academic paper sections with notation protocol, anti-hedging, and humanizer pass. Replaces /draft-paper and /humanizer.

Draft a full academic paper manuscript from analysis outputs, project spec, and lit review. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to turn completed analysis into a written paper — not to run analysis or review existing writing...