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Scans all thesis/*.md sections, reports substantive content vs. placeholders, and writes docs/thesis-health.md.
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Based on SOC occupation classification
One-time onboarding interview that creates student-profile.md, proposal.md, and rewrites CLAUDE.md with the student's context.
Generates a populated LaTeX Beamer presentation for the thesis defense from thesis sections and student profile. Compiles to output/defense.pdf.
Generate an email-ready progress report addressed to the student's advisor, based on git history since a provided date and the current state of thesis sections
Compiles all thesis/*.md sections into output/thesis.pdf using Pandoc and XeLaTeX. Checks prerequisites before running.
Reads a dataset from data/clean/, describes its structure, suggests summary statistics, and flags data quality issues. Student must provide the file path in the same message.
Checks whether the thesis project can be reproduced by someone else — folder structure, script order, data documentation, README completeness.
| name | progress-check |
| description | Scans all thesis/*.md sections, reports substantive content vs. placeholders, and writes docs/thesis-health.md. |
Use this skill when the student wants to see the current state of their thesis.
A section is "empty" if it contains only:
>[placeholder]#)A section is "in progress" if it has at least one paragraph of original prose but also has placeholder sections.
# Thesis Health Report
Generated: [date]
## Overall Status
[N]/10 sections have substantive content. Estimated total words: [N].
## Section Status
| Section | Status | Est. Words | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00 Abstract | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 01 Introduction | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 02 Literature Review | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 03 Research Question | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 04 Data | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 05 Methodology | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 06 Results | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 07 Robustness | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 08 Discussion | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
| 09 Conclusion | [Done/In Progress/Empty] | [N] | |
## What to Work on Next
[Identify the highest-priority section to work on.]
## Suggested Next Skills
[Based on what's missing, suggest 1–2 skills to run next.]
After writing the file, summarise the report in the conversation: overall status, the top section to work on, and the next skill to run.