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methods-paper-writer

JASA/Biometrika manuscript structure with VanderWeele notation standards

econ-abstract-writing

Guide for writing the abstract of an academic economics paper. Use this skill whenever the user asks for help writing, drafting, revising, or structuring an abstract for an economics paper - whether empirical micro, development economics, applied economics,…

academic-writing

Activate when the user is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g., outlines, abstracts, introductions, data/methods/identification sections, results narratives, conclusions, referee responses, table/figure captions) and needs…

anti-hallucination

ALWAYS activate this skill. Apply these rules to every task regardless of domain. This skill governs how Claude Code verifies information, writes code, references documentation, and avoids fabricating functions, arguments, APIs, file paths, data structures,…

econ-intro-writing

Guide for writing the introduction to an academic economics paper. Use this skill whenever the user asks for help writing, drafting, revising, or structuring an introduction to an economics paper - whether empirical micro, development economics, applied…

academic-paper-verify

Thoroughly verify all code, tables, figures, modeling decisions, and quantitative claims in an academic paper against its source R scripts and output files. Use this skill whenever you need to audit, replicate, or verify an academic research paper - including…

data-analysis

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

deploy

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

devils-advocate

Challenge a slide deck design with 5-7 specific pedagogical questions. Checks ordering, prerequisites, gaps, alternatives, notation conflicts, cognitive load, and book readiness.

interview-me

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

lit-review

Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification

proofread

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

research-ideation

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

review-paper

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

review-r

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

abstract

Reads the manuscript and notebooks to generate a structured abstract. Use when writing or updating the abstract.

bib-check

Cross-checks citation keys in index.qmd against references.bib, reporting missing, orphaned, and duplicate entries. Use when verifying citations.

check-env

Verifies required tools (Quarto, uv, Python, R, Stata, TeX) and Jupyter kernels are installed. Use when setting up or troubleshooting.

cite

Finds a paper by title, author, or DOI, adds BibTeX to references.bib, and shows citation syntax. Use when adding a reference.

codebook

Auto-generates a Markdown codebook from a dataset (CSV, DTA, Excel, Parquet) with types and summary statistics. Use when documenting variables.

data-audit

Scans notebooks for data file references and verifies each file exists on disk. Use when checking for broken data paths.

draft-section

Drafts academic prose for a manuscript section from bullet points or an outline. Use when writing or expanding a section.

env-snapshot

Captures tool versions, packages, and kernel info as a reproducibility record in notes/. Use when documenting the environment.

execute

Executes all registered notebooks, strips noisy cell metadata, and syncs Jupytext pairs. Use when asked to re-run notebooks or refresh outputs.

figures-gallery

Generates an HTML gallery of all project figures with captions and source notebooks. Use when reviewing figures.

freeze-check

Checks whether registered notebooks have current, stale, or missing outputs. Use before rendering or to verify freshness.

handoff

Writes a session handoff report to handoffs/ with project state, work done, decisions, and next steps. Use at session end or after significant work.

init

Fills all [FILL:] placeholders across the template to initialize a new research project. Use when setting up a freshly cloned project.

interpret-results

Writes academic prose interpreting regression output. Use when describing estimation results in manuscript-ready language.

literature-note

Creates a structured annotation note in references/ with sections for research question, data, findings, and relevance. Use when documenting a paper.

new-analysis

Scaffolds a method-specific analysis notebook (DiD, IV, RDD, LASSO, Panel FE) with boilerplate. Use when starting a new econometric analysis.

new-notebook

Creates a Jupyter notebook with Jupytext pairing and registers it in _quarto.yml. Use when adding a new notebook.

new-slide-deck

Creates a Quarto revealjs slide deck in slides/ with the project style guide. Use when a presentation is needed.

referee-response

Drafts a point-by-point response letter to referee comments with suggested edits. Use after a revise-and-resubmit.

regression-table

Formats estimation output as a publication-quality regression table with stars, SEs, and fit statistics. Use when creating a results table.

render

Runs the clean render pipeline (HTML, PDF, Word) via scripts/render.sh. Use when asked to render, build, or compile the manuscript.

robustness-table

Generates robustness check code and formats results as a combined table. Use for sensitivity analysis.

submission-prep

Runs pre-submission checks (word count, anonymization, citations, placeholders, cross-refs) and generates a checklist. Use before journal submission.

sync-tex

Transfers prose edits from latex/index.tex (Overleaf) back into index.qmd. Use after pulling LaTeX edits from a collaborator.

stata-c-plugins

Develop high-performance C/C++ plugins for Stata using the stplugin.h SDK. Use when the user asks to create a Stata plugin, write C/C++ code for Stata, accelerate a Stata command with C, build cross-platform Stata plugins, or translate/port a Python or R…