Skill.md files: teach Claude once, not every chat.

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name: lit-review
description: Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification
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name: pedagogy-review
description: Run holistic pedagogical review on lecture slides. Checks narrative arc, student prerequisites, worked examples, notation clarity, and deck pacing.
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name: proofread
description: Run the proofreading protocol on lecture files. Checks grammar, typos, overflow, consistency, and academic writing quality. Produces a report without editing files.
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name: qa-quarto
description: Adversarial Quarto vs Beamer QA. Critic finds issues, fixer applies fixes, loops until APPROVED (max 5 rounds).
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name: research-ideation
description: Generate structured research questions, testable hypotheses, and empirical strategies from a topic or dataset
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name: review-paper
description: Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections
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name: review-r
description: Run the R code review protocol on R scripts. Checks code quality, reproducibility, domain correctness, and professional standards. Produces a report without editing files.
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name: slide-excellence
description: Multi-agent slide review (visual, pedagogy, proofreading). Use for comprehensive quality check before milestones.
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name: translate-to-quarto
description: Translate Beamer LaTeX to Quarto RevealJS. Multi-phase workflow with TikZ extraction and QA.
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name: validate-bib
description: Validate bibliography entries against citations in all lecture files. Find missing entries and unused references.
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name: visual-audit
description: Perform adversarial visual audit of Quarto or Beamer slides checking for overflow, font consistency, box fatigue, and layout issues.
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name: compiledeck
description: Create and compile beautiful Beamer presentations following the Rhetoric of Decks philosophy. Use when making slides, creating decks, or compiling .tex presentation files.
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name: fletcher
description: Defamiliarization audit for empirical output. Systematically interrogates every feature of a figure, table, or set of results — not just the main finding. Named for Jason Fletcher, who asked about the spike at t=1 when everyone else was looking at t=2. Use when you have output and are about to interpret or report it.
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name: newproject
description: Scaffold a new research project with standard directory structure, CLAUDE.md template, and documented README. Use this at the start of every new project to ensure consistent organization.
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name: referee2
description: Systematic audit and review by Referee 2. Two modes — "deck" reviews slide presentations for rhetoric, visual quality, and compile cleanliness; "code" performs cross-language replication and econometric audit of empirical pipelines. Use when reviewing slides, auditing code, or verifying replication.
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name: split-pdf
description: Download, split, and deeply read academic PDFs. Use when asked to read, review, or summarize an academic paper. Splits PDFs into 4-page chunks, reads them in small batches, and produces structured reading notes — avoiding context window crashes and shallow comprehension.
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name: causal-inference-r
description: Run IV, DiD, and RDD analyses in R with proper diagnostics. Use when implementing causal inference methods, event studies, or treatment effect estimation.
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name: commit
description: Stage, commit, create PR, and merge to main. Use for the standard commit-PR-merge cycle.
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name: compile-latex
description: Compile a LaTeX manuscript with pdflatex (3 passes + bibtex). Use when compiling the research paper.
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name: data-analysis
description: End-to-end R data analysis workflow from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures.
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name: devils-advocate
description: Challenge research design decisions, assumptions, and methodology choices with specific critical questions. Helps strengthen the paper before submission.
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name: econometrics-julia
description: Julia-based econometric and structural estimation for computationally intensive tasks. Use for structural models, maximum likelihood, GMM, numerical optimization, simulations, and high-performance computing. Covers DataFrames.jl, FixedEffectModels.jl, Optim.jl, and performance optimization.
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name: econometrics-r
description: R-based econometric analysis for academic research. Use when writing R code for panel data, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables, spatial econometrics, or regression analysis. Covers data.table, fixest, sf, modelsummary, and publication-ready outputs.
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name: interview-me
description: Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy.
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