Claude Skills by brycewang-stanford

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

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 mar...

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 p...

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

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".

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",...

Full autonomous research workflow using swarm mode for parallel execution

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", ...

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".

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

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

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

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

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".

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.

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

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

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.

Structured literature search and synthesis with citation extraction and gap identification

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Run IV, DiD, and RDD analyses in R with proper diagnostics. Use when implementing causal inference methods, event studies, or treatment effect estimation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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