master-thesis-template

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.

Scans all thesis/*.md sections, reports substantive content vs. placeholders, and writes docs/thesis-health.md.

Checks whether the thesis project can be reproduced by someone else — folder structure, script order, data documentation, README completeness.

Helps a master's student transform a broad idea into a feasible thesis topic, research question, contribution, and empirical design.

Maps literature streams, suggests real search queries, and positions the thesis contribution. Never invents papers.

Simulates a tough examiner raising the 5 hardest questions the thesis invites. Reads current thesis sections. Does not rewrite. Does not praise.

Guides the student through designing an empirical strategy — variables, baseline regression, identification, robustness checks, expected tables and figures.

Drafts a thesis section from the student's outline and notes. The student must provide the section name and their notes in the same message as /write-section.

Given a claim or topic, returns structured search queries for academic databases. Never invents papers.

Checks all citations in thesis/*.md against docs/references.bib, then attempts web verification via Semantic Scholar. Reports confirmed / unverified / suspicious.