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

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name: publication-strategist
description: Strategic publication planning and venue selection for research
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name: econ-abstract-writing
description: Guide for writing the abstract of an academic economics paper. Use this skill whenever the user asks for help writing, drafting, revising, or structuring an abstract for an economics paper - whether empirical micro, development economics, applied economics, or related fields. Also trigger when the user mentions "abstract," "paper summary," or asks how to compress their findings into a short description. This skill synthesizes best practices from David Evans (CGDev), Marc Bellemare, and patterns observed in top economics journals (AER, QJE, AEJ: Applied, etc.).
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name: academic-writing
description: Activate when the user is drafting any academic economics content from scratch (e.g., outlines, abstracts, introductions, data/methods/identification sections, results narratives, conclusions, referee responses, table/figure captions) and needs economics-specific structure, phrasing options, and quality checks to produce publication-ready prose.
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name: anti-hallucination
description: ALWAYS activate this skill. Apply these rules to every task regardless of domain. This skill governs how Claude Code verifies information, writes code, references documentation, and avoids fabricating functions, arguments, APIs, file paths, data structures, or facts. These rules override any inclination to guess.
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name: econ-intro-writing
description: Guide for writing the introduction to an academic economics paper. Use this skill whenever the user asks for help writing, drafting, revising, or structuring an introduction to an economics paper - whether empirical micro, development economics, applied economics, or related fields. Also trigger when the user mentions "intro," "introduction section," "opening paragraphs," or asks how to motivate, frame, or present their research question in a paper. This skill synthesizes best practices from David Evans (CGDev), Keith Head, Claudia Sahm, Marc Bellemare, and Deirdre McCloskey.
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name: event-study
description: Use this skill whenever the user wants to conduct an event study, create event study plots, test for parallel trends, implement difference-in-differences designs, or work with any panel data estimation that involves pre/post treatment comparisons. Trigger on phrases like "event study", "parallel trends", "pre-trends", "dynamic treatment effects", "leads and lags", "TWFE", "two-way fixed effects", "staggered adoption", "staggered treatment", "difference-in-differences", "DiD", "Sun and Abraham", "Callaway and Sant'Anna", "de Chaisemartin", "Borusyak", "did_multiplegt", "fixest", "did2s", "bacon decomposition", or any reference to plotting coefficients around a treatment event. Also trigger when the user uploads panel data and wants to estimate treatment effects with variation in treatment timing. All code is in R.
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name: academic-paper-verify
description: Thoroughly verify all code, tables, figures, modeling decisions, and quantitative claims in an academic paper against its source R scripts and output files. Use this skill whenever you need to audit, replicate, or verify an academic research paper - including cross-checking LaTeX tables against R output, validating econometric modeling choices, ensuring sample sizes are consistent, building a verification manifest, and running automated replication tests. Trigger this skill for any mention of: paper verification, replication check, table audit, code-paper consistency, reproducing results, verifying estimates, checking coefficients, or any variant of "does the paper match the code."
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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: deploy
description: Render Quarto slides and sync to docs/ for GitHub Pages deployment. Use when deploying lecture slides after making changes.
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name: devils-advocate
description: Challenge a slide deck design with 5-7 specific pedagogical questions. Checks ordering, prerequisites, gaps, alternatives, notation conflicts, cognitive load, and book readiness.
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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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name: lit-review
description: Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification
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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: replicate-paper
description: Run a full 6-phase autonomous replication of a biomedical/epidemiology paper against UK Biobank or similar cohort data, producing Python and R scripts plus a validated replication report. Use when asked to replicate a paper end-to-end, or when invoked as /replicate-paper [paper.pdf] [data.csv|dta].
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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: abstract
description: Reads the manuscript and notebooks to generate a structured abstract. Use when writing or updating the abstract.
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name: bib-check
description: Cross-checks citation keys in index.qmd against references.bib, reporting missing, orphaned, and duplicate entries. Use when verifying citations.
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name: check-env
description: Verifies required tools (Quarto, uv, Python, R, Stata, TeX) and Jupyter kernels are installed. Use when setting up or troubleshooting.
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name: cite
description: Finds a paper by title, author, or DOI, adds BibTeX to references.bib, and shows citation syntax. Use when adding a reference.
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name: codebook
description: Auto-generates a Markdown codebook from a dataset (CSV, DTA, Excel, Parquet) with types and summary statistics. Use when documenting variables.
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name: data-audit
description: Scans notebooks for data file references and verifies each file exists on disk. Use when checking for broken data paths.
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name: draft-section
description: Drafts academic prose for a manuscript section from bullet points or an outline. Use when writing or expanding a section.
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