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Manage your academic publication pipeline via the Kabbo MCP server. List, search, create, update, move, and analyse publications; track stalled papers and reminders; export/import BibTeX; link a data repo or Overleaf project; review team progress.

Manage your academic publication pipeline via the Kabbo MCP server. List, search, create, update, move, and analyse publications; track stalled papers and reminders; export/import BibTeX; link a data repo or Overleaf project; review team progress.

Convert a folder of academic PDF papers into a token-efficient markdown wiki for literature review. Use this skill when the user has a folder of PDFs they want processed into .md files that Claude Code can read cheaply. Trigger phrases include "convert my PDFs", "build my wiki", "process my papers folder", "/tyler".

Simulated academic peer review for economics papers, named in honour of Claude Diebolt. Creates independent referee agents who review your paper in isolation. If Codex is available, adds independent methodology auditing and R script verification by a second model family (GPT-5.4).

A lifelong sounding board for research ideas. Helps a researcher decide whether an idea is the one worth their next year by asking three questions – what is the big story, why is it relevant for the big debates in the field, why do we want to know this – and reading the field with the long view that Jan Luiten van Zanden brings to his own work. Use whenever you have an idea you are considering working on, at any career stage, and want help seeing it clearly.

Catches hallucinated, chimeric, and otherwise broken references in .bib files. Runs Claude and Codex (GPT-5.4) agents in parallel using two genuinely independent verification methods, randomly assigns references to Codex so there are no fixed agent pairs, and stages an adversarial challenge round wherever they disagree. Produces an evidence-backed scorecard so no fake slips through silently. Trigger with "/kris path/to/refs.bib" or "/kris path/to/paper.tex".

Apply Economic History Review house style to a LaTeX manuscript, bibliography, title page, or cover letter. Implements the full Notes for Contributors (Feb 2026 v1), including a bespoke biblatex style (echr.bbx/echr.cbx) with EHR footnote references, surname-first bibliography, 2nd-ser. + roman-volume handling for pre-1992 EHR citations, working-paper exclusion, UK -ize spelling, Oxford commas, and specific capitalisation/number/date conventions.

Language editing round-trip for LaTeX papers. Use when the user wants to send a LaTeX paper to Di Kilpert for copy-editing (pack to Word) or apply edits back from Word (unpack to LaTeX). Accepts one argument - pack or unpack.