brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills skills

Main orchestration workflow for systematic literature research - search, evaluate, traverse, synthesize

Collaboratively build and refine paper screening rubrics through brainstorming, test-driven development, and iterative feedback

Check if medicinal chemistry papers are in ChEMBL database to access curated bioactivity data

Safely remove intermediate files from completed research sessions while preserving important data

Two-stage paper screening - abstract scoring then deep dive for specific data extraction

Use Unpaywall API to find free full-text versions of paywalled papers

Classical end-to-end empirical analysis workflow in the traditional Python econometric stack — pandas + numpy + scipy + statsmodels + linearmodels + pyfixest + rdrobust + econml + causalml + matplotlib/seaborn. **Defaults to economics empirical-paper style** (AER / QJE / AEJ) — every run produces a publication-ready output set with a multi-column regression table (M1→M6 progressive controls/FE) as the centerpiece, plus Table 1 (descriptives), mechanism / heterogeneity / robustness tables, and event-study + coefficient + trend figures. Covers the full 8-step pipeline an applied economist or quantitative social scientist runs on every paper — (1) data cleaning, (2) variable construction & transformation, (3) descriptive statistics & Table 1, (4) statistical diagnostic tests, (5) baseline empirical modeling, (6) robustness battery, (7) further analysis (mechanism, heterogeneity, mediation, moderation), (8) publication-ready tables & figures. **Also covers two parallel domain modes that share the same 8-step scaffolding** — **Mode A — Epidemiology / public health** (target-trial emulation via `zepid` / hand-rolled `pandas`, IPTW + g-formula + TMLE doubly-robust triplet via `zepid` / `econml` / `lifelines`, Mendelian randomization via `pymr` / `mrtool` (or `rpy2` → `MendelianRandomization`/`TwoSampleMR`), KM / AFT / Cox survival via `lifelines`, E-value sensitivity, principal stratification — STROBE / TRIPOD reporting), and **Mode B — ML causal inference** (DML via `econml.dml` / `doubleml`, S/T/X/R/DR meta-learners via `econml.metalearners` / `causalml`, causal forest via `econml.grf` / `causalml`, Dragonnet / TARNet / CEVAE neural causal via `causalml`, BCF via `pymc-bart` / `bcf-py`, matrix completion, CATE distribution + policy tree via `econml.policy` / `policytree-py`, off-policy evaluation, conformal causal via `mapie`, fairness audit via `fairlearn`, DAG learning via `causal-learn` / `cdt` / LLM-assisted). Prescribes which library to reach for at each step, shows the canonical code, and links to deeper `references/` files for variant-specific patterns. Use when the user asks for a **complete empirical analysis** in Python, wants to replicate an applied-economics paper from scratch, needs a reproducible workflow that is NOT opinionated on any single vertical package (contrast with StatsPAI), wants explicit control over every estimator and diagnostic, or asks "how do I write a full empirical pipeline in Python?". Also triggers when the user names a specific classical step in isolation — "winsorize at 1/99%", "run Breusch-Pagan", "build a Table 1 balance table", "do a placebo test", "event study plot", "mediation analysis" — and wants it wired into the broader pipeline. Mode A triggers on "target trial emulation", "IPTW", "TMLE", "Mendelian randomization", "STROBE", "公共健康", "流行病学". Mode B triggers on "DML", "double machine learning", "causal forest", "meta-learner", "Dragonnet", "BCF", "policy tree", "conformal causal", "fairness audit", "因果机器学习".

Classical end-to-end empirical analysis workflow in the modern tidyverse + econometrics R ecosystem — dplyr + tidyr + haven + fixest + sandwich + lmtest + clubSandwich + AER + ivreg + did + bacondecomp + HonestDiD + eventstudyr + rdrobust + rddensity + Synth + gsynth + synthdid + MatchIt + WeightIt + cobalt + ebal + grf + DoubleML + mediation + marginaleffects + modelsummary + kableExtra + gt + ggplot2 + ggpubr + cowplot + binsreg. **Defaults to economics empirical-paper style** (AER / QJE / AEJ) — every run produces a publication-ready output set with a multi-column regression table (M1→M6 progressive controls/FE) as the centerpiece, plus Table 1 (descriptives), mechanism / heterogeneity / robustness tables, and event-study + coefficient + trend figures. Covers the full 8-step R pipeline an applied economist runs on every paper — (1) data import & cleaning (read_dta/read_csv, naniar, janitor, validate-merges), (2) variable construction (mutate/across/winsorize/group_by + lag/lead with dplyr), (3) descriptive statistics & Table 1 (gtsummary, modelsummary::datasummary, tableone), (4) classical diagnostic tests (shapiro/jarque.bera.test/bptest/dwtest/bgtest/vif/adf.test/kpss.test/Hausman), (5) baseline modeling (fixest::feols, ivreg, did::att_gt, eventstudyr, sun_ab, did_imputation, synthdid, rdrobust, MatchIt, WeightIt, grf::causal_forest, DoubleML, mediation), (6) robustness battery (modelsummary stack, clubSandwich CRSE, fwildclusterboot, ri2, robomit Oster, bacondecomp, HonestDiD), (7) further analysis (interactions + marginaleffects, mediation::mediate, gsem via lavaan, dose-response splines, grf CATE), (8) publication-ready tables & figures (modelsummary, kableExtra, gt, stargazer, texreg, flextable to LaTeX/Word/HTML; ggplot2 + ggpubr + cowplot + binsreg + iplot for figures). **Also covers two parallel domain modes that share the same 8-step scaffolding** — **Mode A — Epidemiology / public health** (target-trial emulation, IPTW + g-formula + TMLE doubly-robust triplet via `WeightIt` / `gfoRmula` / `tmle` / `ltmle`, Mendelian randomization via `MendelianRandomization` / `TwoSampleMR` / `MRPRESSO`, KM / Cox / AFT / RMST survival via `survival` / `survminer` / `flexsurv`, E-value sensitivity via `EValue`, principal stratification — STROBE / TRIPOD reporting), and **Mode B — ML causal inference** (DML via `DoubleML`, S/T/X/R/DR meta-learners via `causalweight` / `grf`, causal forest via `grf::causal_forest`, BART/BCF via `bartCause` / `bcf`, matrix completion via `MCPanel`, CATE distribution + policy tree via `policytree`, off-policy evaluation, conformal causal via `conformalInference` / `cfcausal`, fairness audit via `fairmodels`, DAG learning via `pcalg` / `bnlearn` / LLM-assisted). Use when the user asks for a complete R empirical analysis, wants a tidyverse-style reproducible R script / Quarto workflow, prefers fixest over reghdfe, needs the R counterpart to StatsPAI / 00.1 / 00.2, or names a specific R step in isolation ("feols with cluster", "MatchIt nearest neighbor", "bacondecomp in R", "gtsummary table 1", "modelsummary to Word"). Mode A triggers on "target trial emulation R", "tmle ltmle", "MendelianRandomization", "TwoSampleMR", "MRPRESSO", "survival cox AFT", "STROBE R", "EValue R", "公共健康 R", "流行病学 R". Mode B triggers on "DoubleML R", "grf causal forest", "policytree", "bartCause bcf", "conformal causal R", "fairmodels", "pcalg NOTEARS", "因果机器学习 R".

Classical end-to-end empirical analysis workflow in the traditional Stata ecosystem — native Stata + reghdfe + ivreg2 + csdid + did_imputation + eventstudyinteract + sdid + rdrobust + rddensity + synth + synth_runner + psmatch2 + teffects + ebalance + coefplot + esttab + asdoc + binscatter. **Defaults to economics empirical-paper style** (AER / QJE / AEJ) — every run produces a publication-ready output set with a multi-column regression table (M1→M6 progressive controls/FE) as the centerpiece, plus Table 1 (descriptives), mechanism / heterogeneity / robustness tables, and event-study + coefficient + trend figures. Covers the full 8-step Stata pipeline an applied economist runs on every paper — (1) data import & cleaning (use/import, destring, misstable, duplicates, merge assert), (2) variable construction (gen/egen/winsor2/xtile/xtset with L./F./D.), (3) descriptive statistics & Table 1 (tabstat/balancetable/asdoc), (4) classical diagnostic tests (sktest/swilk/hettest/imtest/xtserial/xttest3/vif/dfuller/kpss/hausman/estat overid), (5) baseline modeling (reg/xtreg/reghdfe/ivreg2/ivregress/csdid/did_imputation/eventstudyinteract/sdid/rdrobust/synth/psmatch2/teffects/heckman/qreg/ppmlhdfe), (6) robustness battery (bacondecomp/honestdid/rwolf/ritest/wildbootstrap/oster), (7) further analysis (subgroup/triple-diff/interactions/medsem/marginsplot/binscatter by group), (8) publication-ready tables & figures (esttab/outreg2/estout/coefplot/marginsplot/rdplot/twoway combined). **Also covers two parallel domain modes that share the same 8-step scaffolding** — **Mode A — Epidemiology / public health** (target-trial emulation, IPTW + g-formula + TMLE doubly-robust triplet via `teffects ipw` / `teffects ipwra` / `teffects aipw` / `eltmle`, Mendelian randomization via `mrrobust` (IVW / Egger / weighted median) and `mregger` / `mrpresso`, KM / Cox / AFT / RMST survival via `sts` / `stcox` / `streg` / `strmst2`, E-value sensitivity via `evalue` (Linden-Mathur), principal stratification — STROBE / TRIPOD reporting), and **Mode B — ML causal inference** (DML via `ddml` / `pdslasso`, S/T/X/R/DR meta-learners via `crforest` and `ddml interactive`, causal forest via `crforest` / `cforest`, BART/BCF via `bart` / `bartCause`-style externals, CATE distribution + policy tree via `crforest`, off-policy evaluation, conformal causal externals, fairness audit, DAG learning via `pcalg` / external Python callouts). Use when the user asks for a complete Stata empirical analysis, wants a reproducible .do-file pipeline, needs a Stata counterpart to the Python StatsPAI / Full-empirical-analysis-skill, or names a specific Stata step in isolation ("run reghdfe with two-way clustering", "csdid event study", "winsor2 at 1%", "esttab to LaTeX", "coefplot with CI", "ivreg2 weak-IV test", "synth_runner placebos", "teffects psmatch balance check"). Mode A triggers on "target trial emulation Stata", "teffects ipw aipw", "eltmle", "mrrobust", "mregger weighted median", "stcox AFT survival", "strmst2", "evalue Stata", "STROBE Stata", "公共健康 Stata", "流行病学 Stata". Mode B triggers on "ddml Stata", "pdslasso", "crforest causal forest Stata", "policy tree Stata", "因果机器学习 Stata".

Introduction to literature search & review skills - systematic paper finding, screening, extraction, and citation traversal

PubMed search with keyword optimization, result parsing, and metadata extraction

Use when the user asks to run a full empirical / causal analysis in Python — by default in the style of an applied economics paper (AER / QJE / JPE / ReStud / AEJ) with DID / RD / IV / SCM / DML / matching, written-out estimating equation + identifying assumption, Table 1 / Table 2 / event-study figure / robustness gauntlet — OR in epidemiology / public health style (target-trial emulation, IPTW + g-formula + TMLE triplet, Mendelian randomization, KM/AFT survival, E-value sensitivity, STROBE/TRIPOD reporting) — OR in ML causal inference style (DML, S/T/X/R/DR meta-learners, causal forest, Dragonnet/TARNet/CEVAE, BCF, CATE distribution, policy learning, conformal causal, fairness audit, causal discovery) — OR in distributional / gap-decomposition style (Oaxaca–Blinder `sp.oaxaca`, Kitagawa `sp.kitagawa_decompose`, DiNardo–Fortin–Lemieux `sp.dfl_decompose`, Gelbach `sp.gelbach`, Fairlie `sp.fairlie`, RIF / FFL `sp.rif_decomposition`, all reachable through the `sp.decompose` dispatcher). Also covers exporting multi-column regression tables to Word / Excel / LaTeX (Stata outreg2 / esttab / R modelsummary equivalent) and bundling an entire replication appendix into one .docx / .xlsx / .tex file. Triggers on keywords "StatsPAI", "statspai", "AER empirical analysis", "applied micro pipeline", "Table 1 balance", "event study", "first-stage F", "Oster bound", "honest_did", "spec_curve", "callaway_santanna", "dragonnet", "text as treatment", "outreg2 in Python", "regression table to Word/Excel", "sp.regtable", "sp.collect", "sp.paper_tables", "sp.feols", "summary_col", "modelsummary", "AER style table", "QJE style table", "epidemiology pipeline", "target trial emulation", "g-formula", "IPTW", "TMLE", "Mendelian randomization", "STROBE", "TRIPOD", "公共健康", "流行病学", "DML", "double machine learning", "causal forest", "meta-learner", "CATE", "conformal causal", "policy learning", "因果机器学习", "ML causal", "decomposition", "Oaxaca-Blinder", "Kitagawa", "DiNardo-Fortin-Lemieux", "DFL", "Gelbach", "RIF decomposition", "wage gap decomposition", "sp.decompose", "sp.oaxaca".

Use parallel subagents for large-scale paper screening and deep dive analysis

Smart backward and forward citation following via Semantic Scholar, with relevance filtering and deduplication

Systematic writing framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers from optimized outline to submission-ready manuscript. Use when users want to: (1) write a paper from a detailed outline, (2) ensure quality control during writing, (3) maintain consistency across chapters, (4) prepare a submission-ready manuscript, or (5) systematically execute a planned paper. Triggered by phrases like 'write the paper from this outline,' 'compose the full manuscript,' 'execute the outline,' or when users have completed strategic planning (academic-paper-strategist skill) and are ready to write. Takes optimized outline as input; outputs complete manuscript with iterative quality checks.

Systematic strategic planning framework for philosophy and interdisciplinary academic papers targeting preprint platforms (PhilArchive, arXiv, PhilSci-Archive). Use when users want to: (1) plan a paper on a specific topic, (2) identify research gaps and assess originality, (3) develop optimized paper outlines, (4) prepare for preprint submission, or (5) understand platform requirements and writing standards. Triggered by phrases like 'plan a paper on,' 'help me design a paper about,' 'identify research gaps in,' 'is this idea original,' or when users need structured research planning. The skill guides through three phases: Platform Analysis (identifying target venue and studying sample papers), Theoretical Framework (AI-driven literature search and gap identification), and Outline Optimization (structured design with reviewer-perspective self-assessment). Each phase includes quality evaluation standards and validation checkpoints. Output: optimized detailed outline ready for systematic writing (use with academic-paper-composer skill).

Draft economics papers with proper structure and academic style

Generates publication-quality figures for ML papers from research context. Given a paper section or description, extracts system components and relationships to generate architecture diagrams via Gemini. Given experiment results or data, auto-selects chart type and generates data-driven figures via matplotlib/seaborn. Use when creating any figure for a conference paper.

Guide for creating DAAF agent definition files. Covers 12-section template, hook registration, skills-in-frontmatter, integration checklist. Use when adding or revising agents. For SKILL.md files, use skill-authoring instead.

End-to-end data analysis dispatching Coder and Data-engineer for implementation, coder-critic for review. Supports R, Stata, Python, Julia. Replaces /data-analysis.

Fetch economic data from FRED, World Bank, and other APIs

Route empirical-research requests through the Auto-Empirical Research Skills catalog when this whole repository is installed as one skill in Codex, CodeBuddy, Claude Code, or another IDE. Use to choose and load the right vendored AERS skill for causal inference, econometrics, replication, data acquisition, manuscript writing, peer review and referee responses, citation checking, de-AIGC editing, or full empirical-paper workflows, or an end-to-end run from raw data all the way to a finished Word (.docx) manuscript, without reading the entire repository at once.

Orchestrates end-to-end autonomous AI research projects using a two-loop architecture. The inner loop runs rapid experiment iterations with clear optimization targets. The outer loop synthesizes results, identifies patterns, and steers research direction. Routes to domain-specific skills for execution, supports continuous agent operation via Claude Code /loop and OpenClaw heartbeat, and produces research presentations and papers. Use when starting a research project, running autonomous experiments, or managing a multi-hypothesis research effort.

This skill covers Bayesian estimation and inference in quantitative social science. Use when the user is specifying priors, running MCMC, diagnosing chain convergence, or reporting posterior summaries — including hierarchical models, Bayesian structural models, and small-sample settings where priors regularize. Triggers on "Bayesian estimation", "Bayesian inference", "MCMC", "Markov chain Monte Carlo", "Stan", "PyMC", "NumPyro", "prior", "posterior", "credible interval", "Bayesian structural", "Bayesian BLP", "Bayesian DSGE", "hierarchical model", "random effects Bayesian", "posterior predictive check", "Bayes factor", "prior predictive check", "NUTS", "HMC", "Hamiltonian Monte Carlo", "R-hat", "rhat", "effective sample size", "ESS", "Bayesian calibration", "posterior distribution", "prior elicitation", "weakly informative prior", "brms", "rstanarm", "cmdstanpy", "pymc", "arviz".

Create academic presentations in Beamer with professional themes

This skill covers causal inference methods in observational and quasi-experimental settings. Use when the user is implementing, choosing between, or debugging causal identification strategies — including instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, synthetic control, or matching estimators. Triggers on "causal effect", "identification strategy", "instrumental variable", "2SLS", "GMM", "difference-in-differences", "DiD", "staggered treatment", "regression discontinuity", "RDD", "synthetic control", "matching", "propensity score", "IPW", "AIPW", "doubly robust", "LATE", "ATT", "ATE", "parallel trends", "exclusion restriction", "first stage", "weak instruments", or "endogeneity".

This skill should be used when the user asks to "implement a DiD regression", "write a causal inference pipeline", "set up an event study", "implement instrumental variables", "run a regression discontinuity design", "build a synthetic control model", "implement propensity score matching", "write parallel trends test", "implement Bacon decomposition", or needs code templates for causal inference methods in Python, R, or Stata. Based on Scott Cunningham's Causal Inference: The Mixtape.

This skill covers causal machine learning methods in applied economics and quantitative social science. Use when implementing or choosing between modern ML-based causal estimators — including double machine learning, DML, partially linear models, interactive regression models, cross-fitting, Neyman orthogonality, debiased ML, causal forests, generalized random forest, GRF, honest causal trees, AIPW with machine learning, doubly robust with machine learning, DR-Learner, T-Learner, S-Learner, X-Learner, meta-learners, heterogeneous treatment effects, conditional average treatment effect, CATE, HTE, high-dimensional controls, LASSO controls, post-LASSO, post-double selection, Belloni-Chernozhukov-Hansen, Riesz representer, Chernozhukov, sample splitting, econml, DoubleML package, or any combination of machine learning and causal inference.

Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to BibTeX, or ensure reference accuracy in scientific writing.

Simplify and clean up code after changes are complete. Reduces complexity, improves readability, and ensures consistency.

Stage, commit, create PR, and merge to main. Use for the standard commit-PR-merge cycle.

Stage, commit, create PR, and merge to main. Use for the standard commit-PR-merge cycle.

Commit changes, push to remote, and create a pull request. Use for completing features or fixes ready for review.

Compile a Beamer LaTeX slide deck with XeLaTeX (3 passes + bibtex). Use when compiling lecture slides.

Compile a LaTeX manuscript with pdflatex (3 passes + bibtex). Use when compiling the research paper.

Create and compile beautiful Beamer presentations following the Rhetoric of Decks philosophy. Use when making slides, creating decks, or compiling .tex presentation files.

Show current context status and session health. Use to check how much context has been used, whether auto-compact is approaching, and what state will be preserved.

Create new Beamer lecture from papers and materials. Guided workflow with notation consistency.

Operational framework for the DAAF orchestrator. Defines engagement modes, confirmation protocol, subagent dispatch, context budget, and reference-loading. Loaded exclusively by the orchestrator — not for subagents or user questions.

End-to-end R data analysis workflow from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures

End-to-end R data analysis workflow from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures.

End-to-end data analysis workflow in R or Python — from exploration through regression to publication-ready tables and figures. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to run any empirical analysis, write analysis code, or produce output from data. Triggers include: "analyze this data", "run a regression", "write R code for this", "write Python code for this", "I have a dataset", "help me with this regression", "run a DiD", "run an RDD", "event study", "IV regression", "fit a model", "produce a table", "make a figure", "explore my data", or any request involving a dataset path or empirical estimation.

Find and assess datasets for a research question. Dispatches Explorer agents to search across data source categories, then Explorer-Critic to stress-test each candidate. Produces a ranked list with feasibility grades. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to identify or evaluate data sources — not to search for papers or run analysis. Triggers include: "find data", "what data should I use", "find a dataset for this", "where can I get data on X", "assess datasets", "what datasets exist for", "help me find data", "is there data on this", "what are my data options", "I need data for this project", or any request to locate empirical data sources for a research question.

Data science methodology for Python research: EDA, validation, causal inference (IV, DiD, RD, synthetic control), clustering/PCA/UMAP, supervised ML, geospatial, visualization. Method selection guidance. For syntax, load tool-specific skills.

Deep consistency audit of the entire repository infrastructure. Launches 4 parallel specialist agents to find factual errors, code bugs, count mismatches, and cross-document inconsistencies. Then fixes all issues and loops until clean. Use when: after making broad changes, before releases, or when user says "audit", "find inconsistencies", "check everything".

Deep consistency audit of the entire repository — launches 4 parallel specialist agents to find factual errors, code bugs, broken references, count mismatches, and cross-document inconsistencies, then fixes all issues and loops until clean. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants a comprehensive repository-wide check — not a targeted review of a single file. Triggers include: "audit", "deep audit", "find inconsistencies", "check everything", "run a full audit", "are there any broken references", "check the whole repo", "something feels off", "run the audit loop", or after making broad changes across multiple files.

Render Quarto slides and sync to docs/ for GitHub Pages deployment. Use when deploying lecture slides after making changes.

Challenge slide design with 5-7 pedagogical questions. Checks ordering, prerequisites, and cognitive load.

Challenge research design decisions, assumptions, and methodology choices with specific critical questions. Helps strengthen the paper before submission.

Discovery phase combining research interviews, literature search, data discovery, and ideation. Routes to appropriate agents based on arguments. Replaces /interview-me, /lit-review, /find-data, /research-ideation.

Create publication-quality charts and graphs for economics papers.

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.

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.

Interpretation guidance for Urban Institute Portal datasets. Coded values (-1/-2/-3), year definitions, grade encoding, suppression, licensing, cross-source joins. Use when interpreting Portal data before analysis. Routes to source-specific skills.

Discovers education data from Urban Institute Portal: endpoints, variables, year coverage, join keys (CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, Scorecard, SAIPE). Use to map questions to data. Load before education-data-query — discovery here, download there.

Downloads education datasets from configured mirror sources (parquet/CSV) with local Polars filtering. Use when writing fetch scripts or retrieving CCD, IPEDS, CRDC, SAIPE data. Load after education-data-explorer — retrieval here, not discovery.

CSS — annual Clery Act crime/fire safety for Title IV institutions. Portal: hate crimes only (2005-2021); primary offenses, VAWA, arrests, fire safety need ope.ed.gov directly. Use for campus crime analysis. Identified by IPEDS unitid.

This skill covers applied microeconomic empirical methods and research design. Use when the user is selecting an identification strategy, comparing estimators, running diagnostics, designing a research study, or evaluating an empirical strategy. Triggers on "which method", "what estimator", "how to choose", "method comparison", "empirical strategy", "research design", "applied micro", "identification strategy", "power analysis", "design-based", "model-based", "minimum detectable effect", "specification".

Run a structural estimation pipeline — routes to /workflows:work with estimation context from empirical-playbook

Extract TikZ diagrams from Beamer source, compile to PDF, convert to SVG with 0-based indexing. Use when updating TikZ diagrams for Quarto slides.

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.

This skill covers game-theoretic methods in structural econometrics and industrial organization. Use when the user is working with strategic interactions, equilibrium analysis, or game-theoretic structural models — including entry games, conduct testing, auction models with strategic bidding, bargaining, or matching markets. Triggers on "Nash equilibrium", "subgame perfect", "best response", "strategic interaction", "entry game", "conduct testing", "auction", "mechanism design", "matching market", "bargaining", "BNE", "Bayesian Nash", "static game", "dynamic game", "repeated game", "multiple equilibria", "equilibrium selection", "discrete game", "oligopoly", "game-theoretic", "player", "payoff", "strategy", "dominant strategy", "Bresnahan-Reiss", "Ciliberto-Tamer", "partial identification", "set identification", or markup test.

Build and solve Walrasian general equilibrium models with theory derivations and Julia computation

Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. Use when you have experimental observations or data and need to formulate testable hypotheses with predictions, propose mechanisms, and design experiments to test them. Follows scientific method framework. For open-ended ideation use scientific-brainstorming; for automated LLM-driven hypothesis testing on datasets use hypogenic.

Generate testable hypotheses. Formulate from observations, design experiments, explore competing explanations, develop predictions, propose mechanisms, for scientific inquiry across domains.

This skill covers formal identification arguments and proofs in structural and reduced-form econometrics. Use when the user needs to prove or formalize that a parameter is identified — including writing identification propositions, stating regularity conditions, deriving rank conditions, or showing observational equivalence fails. Triggers on "identification proof", "identification argument", "identify the parameter", "show identification", "identification condition", "exclusion restriction proof", "rank condition", "order condition", "identification strategy formal", "nonparametric identification", "parametric identification", "local identification", "global identification", "observational equivalence", "identification at infinity", "completeness condition", "regularity conditions", "Rothenberg", "proof of identification", "identification result", "identified parameter", "point identified", "set identified", "partial identification".

Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy

Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy.

Universal LaTeX document skill: create, compile, and convert any document to professional PDF with PNG previews. Supports resumes, reports, cover letters, invoices, academic papers, theses/dissertations, academic CVs, presentations (Beamer), scientific posters, formal letters, exams/quizzes, books, cheat sheets, reference cards, exam formula sheets, fillable PDF forms (hyperref form fields), conditional content (etoolbox toggles), mail merge from CSV/JSON (Jinja2 templates), version diffing (latexdiff), charts (pgfplots + matplotlib), tables (booktabs + CSV import), images (TikZ), Mermaid diagrams, AI-generated images, watermarks, landscape pages, bibliography/citations (BibTeX/biblatex), multi-language/CJK (auto XeLaTeX), algorithms/pseudocode, colored boxes (tcolorbox), SI units (siunitx), Pandoc format conversion (Markdown/DOCX/HTML ↔ LaTeX), and PDF-to-LaTeX conversion of handwritten or printed documents (math, business, legal, general). Compile script supports pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex with auto-detection, latexmk backend, texfot log filtering, PDF/A output, and verbosity control (--verbose/--quiet). Empirically optimized scaling: single agent 1-10 pages, split 11-20, batch-7 pipeline 21+. Use when user asks to: (1) create a resume/CV/cover letter, (2) write a LaTeX document, (3) create PDF with tables/charts/images, (4) compile a .tex file, (5) make a report/invoice/presentation, (6) anything involving LaTeX or pdflatex, (7) convert/OCR a PDF to LaTeX, (8) convert handwritten notes, (9) create charts/graphs/diagrams, (10) create slides, (11) write a thesis or dissertation, (12) create an academic CV, (13) create a poster, (14) create an exam/quiz, (15) create a book, (16) convert between document formats (Markdown, DOCX, HTML to/from LaTeX), (17) generate Mermaid diagrams for LaTeX, (18) create a formal business letter, (19) create a cheat sheet or reference card, (20) create an exam formula sheet or crib sheet, (21) condense lecture notes/PDFs into a cheat sheet, (22) create a fillable PDF form with text fields/checkboxes/dropdowns, (23) create a document with conditional content/toggles (show/hide sections), (24) generate batch/mail-merge documents from CSV/JSON data, (25) create a version diff PDF (latexdiff) highlighting changes between documents, (26) create a homework or assignment submission with problems and solutions, (27) create a lab report with data tables, graphs, and error analysis, (28) encrypt or password-protect a PDF, (29) merge multiple PDFs into one, (30) optimize/compress a PDF for web or email, (31) lint or check a LaTeX document for common issues, (32) count words in a LaTeX document, (33) analyze document statistics (figures, tables, citations), (34) fetch BibTeX from a DOI, (35) convert a Graphviz .dot file to PDF/PNG, (36) convert a PlantUML .puml file to PDF/PNG, (37) create a one-pager/fact sheet/executive summary, (38) create a datasheet or product specification sheet, (39) extract pages from a PDF (page ranges, odd/even), (40) check LaTeX package availability before compiling, (41) analyze citations and cross-reference with .bib files, (42) debug LaTeX compilation errors, (43) make a document accessible (PDF/A, tagged PDF), (44) create lecture notes or course handouts, (45) fill an existing PDF form (fillable fields or non-fillable with annotations), (46) extract text or tables from a PDF (pdfplumber, pypdf), (47) OCR a scanned PDF to text (pytesseract), (48) create a PDF programmatically with reportlab (Canvas, Platypus), (49) rotate or crop PDF pages (pypdf), (50) add a watermark to an existing PDF, (51) extract metadata from a PDF (title, author, subject).

Write and typeset economic models in LaTeX with proper notation

Generate publication-ready regression tables in LaTeX.

Extract reusable knowledge from the current session into a persistent skill. Use when you discover something non-obvious, create a workaround, or develop a multi-step workflow that future sessions would benefit from.

Full autonomous research workflow — brainstorm, plan, implement, review, and document

Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification

Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification.

Structured literature review using a parallel fleet of Librarian agents. Searches top journals, working paper repositories (NBER, SSRN, IZA), and traces citation chains from key papers. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to survey existing research on a topic — not to find datasets or write a paper. Triggers include: "review the literature", "find related papers", "what's been done on X", "search for papers on", "do a lit review", "find papers about", "what papers should I cite", "who has written about this", "survey the literature", "find prior work on", or any request to locate and summarize academic publications on a topic.

Search, summarize, and synthesize economics literature

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical, scientific, and technical domains. Creates professionally formatted markdown documents and PDFs with verified citations in multiple citation styles (APA, Nature, Vancouver, etc.).

Write comprehensive literature reviews for medical imaging AI research. Use when writing survey papers, systematic reviews, or literature analyses on topics like segmentation, detection, classification in CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, or pathology imaging. Triggers on requests for "review paper", "survey", "literature review", "综述", "systematic review", or mentions of writing academic reviews on deep learning for medical imaging.

Write publication-ready ML/AI/Systems papers for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM, OSDI, NSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP. Use when drafting papers from research repos, structuring arguments, verifying citations, or preparing camera-ready submissions. Includes LaTeX templates, reviewer guidelines, and citation verification workflows.

Start a new research project by conducting a structured interview to formalize a research idea, then generates research questions with identification strategies and a project spec. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to develop or document a new research idea — not to search for literature or data. Triggers include: "new project", "start research", "I have an idea", "help me develop this", "I want to study X", "help me formalize this idea", "what's my research question", "what identification strategy should I use", "write up my project idea", or when the user describes a topic they want to turn into a paper.

Full research pipeline from idea to paper. Orchestrates all phases — discovery, strategy, analysis, writing, peer review, and submission. Use when starting a new research project from scratch.

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.

Generate professional slide deck images from academic papers and content. Creates comprehensive outlines with style instructions, auto-detects figures from PDFs, then generates individual slide images. Use when user asks to "create slides", "make a presentation", "generate deck", or "slide deck" for papers.

Run holistic pedagogical review on lecture slides. Checks narrative arc, student prerequisites, worked examples, notation clarity, and deck pacing.

Systematic peer review toolkit. Evaluate methodology, statistics, design, reproducibility, ethics, figure integrity, reporting standards, for manuscript and grant review across disciplines.

Run the proofreading protocol on lecture files. Checks grammar, typos, overflow, consistency, and academic writing quality. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the proofreading protocol on manuscript files. Checks grammar, typos, overflow, consistency, and academic writing quality. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the proofreading protocol on academic writing — papers or manuscripts. Checks grammar, typos, layout issues, consistency, and academic writing quality. Produces a report without editing files. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants surface-level writing errors found — not substantive academic critique. Triggers include: "proofread", "check for typos", "grammar check", "look for errors in my draft", "proofread all", "polish this", "check my writing", "are there any mistakes", "proofread before I send this", or when the user wants a clean-up pass rather than feedback on arguments or methods.

This skill covers publication-quality tables and figures for academic research papers. Use when formatting regression results, summary statistics, Monte Carlo output, or research visualizations for LaTeX inclusion. Triggers on "table", "figure", "tabulate", "stargazer", "publication-ready", "LaTeX table", "event study plot", "coefficient plot", "RD plot", "power curve", "specification curve", "binscatter", "format results", "booktabs".

Panel data analysis with Python using linearmodels and pandas.

Adversarial Quarto vs Beamer QA. Critic finds issues, fixer applies fixes, loops until APPROVED (max 5 rounds).

Verify that every quantitative claim in the paper is traceable to an analysis output file, and that no important output was omitted. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to check that the paper and analysis are consistent before submission. Triggers include: "run the quality gate", "check the paper matches the analysis", "verify consistency", "does the paper match my results", "check my numbers", "are my tables right", "quality check before submission", "verify my claims", "make sure everything is consistent", "double-check the paper against my output files", or any pre-submission integrity check between paper text and computed results.

Run IV, DiD, and RDD analyses in R with proper diagnostics

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.

Build and verify replication packages — routes to reproducibility-auditor agent

This skill covers reproducible research pipelines and replication packages. Use when the user is setting up a research project directory structure, configuring workflow managers (Make, Snakemake, DVC), managing computational environments, preparing replication packages for journal submission, or debugging reproducibility failures. Triggers on "reproducible", "replication package", "Makefile", "Snakemake", "DVC", "pipeline", "workflow manager", "data versioning", "conda environment", "Docker", "seed management", "AEA data editor", "replication", "project structure", or "submission checklist".

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and Taiwan NSTC. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.

Write competitive research proposals for NSF, NIH, DOE, and DARPA. Agency-specific formatting, review criteria, budget preparation, broader impacts, significance statements, innovation narratives, and compliance with submission requirements.

Generate research questions from economic phenomena

Generate structured research questions, testable hypotheses, and empirical strategies from a topic or dataset

Generate structured research questions, testable hypotheses, and empirical strategies from a topic or dataset.

Generate academic research proposals for PhD applications. Use when user asks to "write a research proposal", "create PhD proposal", "generate research plan", "撰写研究计划", "写博士申请", "doctoral proposal", or mentions specific research topics for PhD application. Supports STEM, humanities, and social sciences with field-specific adaptations. Follows Nature Reviews-style academic writing conventions. Supports both English and Chinese output based on user preference.

Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin. Asks the user questions about their field, institution, journals, datasets, key researchers, and R color palette, then writes the answers into references/domain-profile.md and CLAUDE.md. Make sure to use this skill first whenever a user is starting fresh or wants to configure the plugin. Triggers include: "set up my project", "configure the plugin", "run setup", "initialize this project", "I just installed the plugin", "set my field", "set my institution", "configure my domain profile", or any request to personalize the plugin for a specific research context.

All quality reviews — routes to appropriate critics based on target file type and flags. Replaces /paper-excellence, /proofread, /econometrics-check, /review-r, /review-paper.

Run the Julia code review protocol on Julia scripts. Checks code quality, type stability, parallel computing patterns, and scientific computing standards. Produces a report without editing files.

Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections

Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, identification strategy, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections.

Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, econometric specification, citation completeness, and potential referee objections. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants substantive academic feedback on a paper — not just surface edits. Triggers include: "review my paper", "give me feedback on this draft", "what would a referee say", "anticipate referee objections", "act as a referee", "check my identification strategy", "is my argument convincing", "review this manuscript", "critique my paper", "will this pass review", or any request for deep critique of academic writing beyond typos and grammar.

Run the R code review protocol on R scripts. Checks code quality, reproducibility, domain correctness, and professional standards. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the R code review protocol on R scripts. Checks code quality, reproducibility, domain correctness, and professional standards. Produces a report without editing files.

Run the R code review protocol on R scripts. Checks code quality, reproducibility, domain correctness, and professional standards. Produces a report without editing files. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants their existing R code evaluated or audited — not when they want new analysis written. Triggers include: "review my R script", "check my R code", "is my code replication-ready", "audit this R file", "does this code follow conventions", "will this reproduce", "check my analysis script", "code review", "review-r", or when the user has an existing .R file and wants quality feedback rather than new code.

R&R cycle — classify referee comments and route to appropriate agents. Replaces /respond-to-referee.

Apply the ScholarEval framework to systematically evaluate scholarly work across quality dimensions (novelty, rigor, significance, and clarity). Use to critique academic papers, research proposals, literature reviews, or grant applications and produce a structured, criterion-based assessment.

Evaluate research rigor. Assess methodology, experimental design, statistical validity, biases, confounding, evidence quality (GRADE, Cochrane ROB), for critical analysis of scientific claims.

Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process with (1) section outlines with key points using research-lookup then (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.

Core skill for the deep research and writing tool. Write scientific manuscripts in full paragraphs (never bullet points). Use two-stage process: (1) create section outlines with key points using research-lookup, (2) convert to flowing prose. IMRAD structure, citations (APA/AMA/Vancouver), figures/tables, reporting guidelines (CONSORT/STROBE/PRISMA), for research papers and journal submissions.

Implements the Spec-Driven Development lifecycle (Intent, Requirements, Design, Tasks, Build) for structured feature development. Use when the user wants to scaffold a new feature spec, generate EARS requirements, create a technical design, break work into tasks, or check spec status. Trigger on keywords: sdd, spec-driven, ears requirements, feature spec.

Full autonomous research workflow using swarm mode for parallel execution

Multi-agent slide review (visual, pedagogy, proofreading). Use for comprehensive quality check before milestones.

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.

End-to-end statistical writing assistant for LaTeX - draft title/abstract/keywords, expand outlines into sections, audit manuscripts, write reviewer reports and response letters, and scaffold book manuscripts.

Comprehensive Stata reference for writing correct .do files, data management, econometrics, causal inference, graphics, Mata programming, and 17+ community packages (reghdfe, estout, did, rdrobust, etc.). Covers syntax, options, gotchas, and idiomatic patterns. Use this skill whenever the user asks you to write, debug, or explain Stata code.

Clean and transform messy data in Stata with reproducible workflows

Run regression analyses in Stata with publication-ready output tables.

Design identification strategy or pre-analysis plan. Dispatches Strategist (proposer) and strategist-critic (validator). Replaces /identify and /pre-analysis-plan.

This skill covers structural econometric models. Use when the user is building, estimating, or debugging structural models — including BLP demand estimation, dynamic discrete choice, auction models, or any workflow involving moment conditions, nested fixed-point algorithms, or MPEC formulations. Triggers on "structural model", "moment conditions", "NFXP", "MPEC", "BLP", "random coefficients", "dynamic discrete choice", "CCP", "Rust model", "auction estimation", "GMM objective", "inner loop", "contraction mapping", or convergence/starting value problems in optimization-based estimation.

This skill covers academic journal submission, referee responses, and revision management. Use when the user is preparing a manuscript for submission, formatting for a specific journal, responding to referees, or managing revisions. Triggers on "submit", "referee", "revision", "R&R", "response letter", "journal", "formatting", "submission", "resubmit", "cover letter", "referee report", "revise and resubmit".

Submission pipeline — journal targeting, replication package, audit, and final gate. Replaces /submit, /target-journal, /audit-replication, /data-deposit.

Create and audit presentations (Beamer or Quarto RevealJS). Combines talk creation, visual audit, and compilation. Replaces /create-talk, /visual-audit, /compile-latex (for talks).

Find and fix technical debt including duplicated code, dead code, outdated patterns, and code smells. Run at the end of sessions to clean up.

Utility commands — commit, compile, validate-bib, journal, context-status, deploy, learn. Replaces individual utility skills.

Translate Beamer LaTeX to Quarto RevealJS. Multi-phase workflow with TikZ extraction and QA.

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all lecture files. Find missing entries and unused references.

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all manuscript files. Find missing entries and unused references.

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all source files. Find missing entries and unused references. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user has any concern about bibliography completeness or citation keys. Triggers include: "validate my bib", "check my citations", "find missing references", "I'm getting undefined citation errors", "are all my citations in the bib file", "check for unused references", "my bibliography is broken", "missing bib entries", "citation not found", or after adding new references from a lit review or before submission.

Perform adversarial visual audit of Quarto or Beamer slides checking for overflow, font consistency, box fatigue, and layout issues.

Explore methodological approaches through structured analysis before planning implementation

Document a recently solved research problem to compound methodological knowledge

Divergent research ideation — generate many candidate directions, then adversarially filter to the strongest

Transform research descriptions into well-structured implementation plans following project conventions

Run multi-agent econometric review on estimation code, identification arguments, and research artifacts

Execute research implementation plans efficiently while maintaining estimation quality and finishing features

Draft academic paper sections with notation protocol, anti-hedging, and humanizer pass. Replaces /draft-paper and /humanizer.

Draft a full academic paper manuscript from analysis outputs, project spec, and lit review. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to turn completed analysis into a written paper — not to run analysis or review existing writing. Triggers include: "write the paper", "draft the manuscript", "write up the results", "start the paper", "turn my results into a paper", "write the introduction", "draft the empirics section", "I have my results, now write the paper", "help me write this up", "write the abstract", or any request to produce academic prose from existing research outputs.