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r-performance

R performance best practices including profiling, benchmarking, vctrs, and optimization strategies. Use when optimizing R code.

r-style-guide

R style guide covering naming conventions, spacing, layout, and function design best practices. Use when writing R code.

rlang-patterns

rlang metaprogramming patterns for data-masking, injection operators, and dynamic dots. Use when writing functions that use tidy evaluation.

tdd-workflow

Test-driven development workflow for R using testthat. Use when writing new features, fixing bugs, or refactoring code. Enforces test-first development with 80%+ coverage.

tidyverse-patterns

Modern tidyverse patterns for R including pipes, joins, grouping, purrr, and stringr. Use when writing tidyverse R code.

econ-write

Expert economics paper writing assistant synthesizing advice from 50+ top guides by Cochrane, McCloskey, Shapiro, Head, Bellemare, Goldin, Glaeser, Kremer, and other leading economists. USE THIS SKILL whenever the user writes, edits, reviews, rewrites, or…

edgartools

Query and analyze SEC filings using EdgarTools

briefing-note

Structured policy briefing note (1-2 pages). Issue, background, analysis, options, recommendation. UK GES, Australian Treasury, consulting formats. Auto-populates from econstack data skills.

cost-benefit

Cost-benefit analysis. Produces economic NPV and financial NPV side by side, with BCR, optimism bias (with mitigation), Marginal Excess Tax Burden, real-terms rebasing, WELLBY / QALY / VPF wellbeing valuation, sensitivity, switching values, EANC for…

econ-audit

Audit economic analysis outputs (fiscal briefings, macro briefings, market research, longlists, and other quantitative economic documents) against methodology standards, academic literature, and common errors. Runs structured checks across core categories…

fiscal-briefing

Public finances briefing. Supports UK, US, and Australia. Produces a single compact briefing on borrowing, debt, receipts, spending, and fiscal rules. Optional debt sustainability analysis via the debtkit R package. User-selectable sub-components and…

longlist

Brainstorm a longlist of benefits and costs for a project. Outputs two clean tables (benefits and costs), each with materiality (H/M/L), a cash flow tag (cash in / cash out / non-cash), a quantification method, and a monetisation method. Supports HMT Green…

macro-briefing

Macroeconomic monitor. Supports UK, US, Euro area, and Australia. Pulls GDP, inflation, employment, wages, rates, trade, housing, and fiscal data. Each country follows its central bank's reporting structure. Produces a single clean briefing with a…

market-research

Industry and market research. Market sizing, structure, competition, regulation, supply chains, pricing, M&A. Produces a single compact, source-cited research report with Porter's Five Forces, HHI / CR4, PESTLE, and trade flows. Supports UK, US, EU,…

openalex

Use when the user asks about academic literature, research papers, scholarly works, authors, citations, institutions, journals, or any academic metadata. Trigger when users want to search for papers, find author profiles, track citations, discover related…

academic-baseline

Use when working on any empirical academic research context — paper writing, data analysis, literature review, or any task involving citations, results, or publication artifacts. Establishes non-negotiable principles that govern all other superpapers skills.

brainstorm

Use when starting a new research project, exploring a research idea, deciding whether a question is viable, or before touching code or data for a new paper. Runs a research-focused brainstorm that clarifies research question, identification strategy, data…

citation-management

Use when adding citations to a .bib file, importing references by DOI, cleaning a bibliography, detecting duplicate entries, or normalizing citation keys. Uses direct .bib manipulation with CrossRef API for metadata resolution — no external tool dependencies.

compile-latex

Use when compiling a LaTeX paper, debugging LaTeX errors, building a paper PDF, or when a .tex file fails to produce output. Handles engine detection (xelatex vs pdflatex), bibliography systems (biber vs bibtex), and multi-pass compilation.

data-collection

Use when collecting data for a research project, downloading time series, building a dataset, accessing economic or social data APIs, or scraping data from a non-API source. Handles source discovery, respectful collection, local caching, and manifest…

execute-plan

Use when a research implementation plan exists in docs/superpapers/plans/ and the user is ready to execute it — collecting data, running analysis, producing outputs, writing the paper. Orchestrates task execution with replication-driven verification and…

journal-guidelines

Use when preparing a paper for submission to a specific journal, checking formatting requirements, parsing instructions for authors, building a submission checklist, or adapting a paper to a journal template. Fetches the journal's official guidelines via web…

journal-selection

Use when choosing a target journal for a paper, comparing journal rankings, asking "where should I submit this", or building a submission strategy across multiple journals. Field-agnostic — detects the paper's research area and suggests appropriate outlets…

literature-search

Use when the user asks to search for papers, review literature, find references on a topic, verify a paper exists, or build a bibliography. Enforces web verification of every citation via web fetch to prevent hallucinated references.

paper-review

Use when a paper is complete or near-complete and a holistic pre-submission audit is needed. Cross-cuts text, code, tables, figures, results, citations, and reproducibility in a single pass and produces a persistent audit report. Works standalone on papers…

paper-writing

Use when drafting, rewriting, reviewing, or auditing prose for any section of an empirical academic paper (Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Data, Results, Discussion, Conclusion) or specialized output (job market paper, grant proposal, policy brief, referee…

replication-driven-research

Use when starting empirical analysis, creating a data pipeline, generating results, or when data or model specifications change. Enforces end-to-end reproducibility — every number in the paper must be regenerable from raw data by a script with a fixed seed.…

robustness-checks

Use when a main specification has produced a result, when preparing a paper appendix, when a reviewer requests robustness, or before declaring any empirical finding final. Guides selection of design-appropriate checks without mandating a fixed checklist.

statistical-modeling

Use when estimating a statistical or econometric model, running a regression, specifying an identification strategy, testing a hypothesis, or fitting any model to empirical data. Guides the process (assumptions, estimation, reporting, diagnostics) without…

tables-and-figures

Use when generating a LaTeX results table, creating a figure for a paper, formatting descriptive statistics, preparing regression output for publication, or producing vector-quality graphics. Enforces booktabs, threeparttable, vector PDFs, and…

write-plan

Use when a research design spec exists and the user is ready to translate it into a concrete implementation plan with phased tasks, artifacts, and verification criteria. Produces a research execution plan organized in canonical research phases — collection,…

analyze

Confirmatory hypothesis testing matched to pre-registration, with full assumption testing, effect sizes, confidence intervals, and APA 7th formatted output. Supports OLS/GLM regression, panel regression (fixest), mixed models (lme4), SEM/CFA (lavaan),…

data-clean

Produce documented data cleaning scripts that log every transformation with N before/after each step, generate a CONSORT-style exclusion flow diagram, create decision log entries for every subjective choice, compute scale reliability and composites, and write…

data-profile

Generate a complete, manuscript-ready data profile: demographics summary table, scale identification with reliability (alpha, omega, CFA), comprehensive codebook, sample characteristics, and measurement documentation — all following current best practices at…

data-validate

Run declarative data quality checks and generate a codebook. Checks completeness, distributions, impossible values, duplicates, outliers, encoding issues, attention check failures, and manipulation check results. Produces a pointblank/pandera validation…

eda

Comprehensive exploratory data analysis with publication-quality descriptive tables, correlation matrices, distribution plots, and assumption testing. Generates a standalone EDA report with Table 1 (gtsummary/great_tables), correlation heatmap, distribution…

process-model

Implement Hayes PROCESS mediation and moderation models transparently via lavaan and bruceR, with bootstrap CIs, index of moderated mediation, Johnson-Neyman regions of significance, and APA-formatted output that matches familiar PROCESS tables. Maps model…

research-init

Scaffold a new research project with full reproducibility infrastructure in R and/or Python. Creates directory structure, pipeline stubs (targets/Snakemake), environment lockfiles (renv/uv), documentation templates (codebook, decision log, pre-registration,…

research-intake

Bidirectional review — THE entry point for every research engagement. Reviews everything the researcher has (data, docs, code, instruments) and produces two outputs: (1) a gap analysis showing what their project needs to meet gold standards, and (2)…

visualize

Create publication-quality figures that meet journal submission standards. APA 7th defaults with journal-specific overrides. Supports interaction plots, mediation path diagrams, forest plots, marginal effects, Johnson-Neyman plots, correlation heatmaps, and…