From acead7383b3f573b29475e0144696f68e3ff9245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:34:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 01/19] feat(v2.0 Phases 0-3): enforcing gates, verification-2.0, real orchestration runtime, automation hooks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Phase 0 — Foundation gates: - check-surface-sync.py: marker-driven enumerative-table-row gate (skills/agents tables) - .githooks/pre-commit + install-hooks.sh: real pre-commit quality gate (closes the direct-commit bypass) - pin model:/effort: across all 17 inherit agents per model-routing.md (9 Opus / 8 Sonnet) Phase 1 — Verification 2.0 (ground truth is a process): - audit-reproducibility: EXPLAINED-with-named-alternative disposition (fail-closed; hard floor preserved) - "manuscript is not the oracle" disagreement-as-signal guidance - claim-verifier: soften numeric/directional auto-HIGH-WARN with named-alternative escape (fabricated-citation floor intact) - two-strikes reuse for repeatedly-EXPLAINED claims; model-diversity challenger guardrail - verify-claims: citation-appropriateness scope; validate-bib stays existence-only and points here Phase 2 — Real orchestration runtime: - orchestration-schemas.md + agent-fleet.md (references; count-safe) - orchestrator-protocol.md rewritten from "pattern, not a runtime" into fan-out -> reduce -> judge(+hallucination gate) -> loop-until-dry + RUN_CONFIG - seven-pass/review-paper/qa-quarto/slide-excellence/deep-audit wired to the shared contract Phase 3 — Enforcing automation (hooks count held at 6): - log-reminder.py: auto-WRITES the session log instead of nagging (+ compile-completion note) - git-guardrails.py (PreToolUse): blocks reset --hard / clean -f / push --force / add -A / mass-discard; warns on hardcoded paths - retire verify-reminder.py; pre-compact DRAFT-block default ON; enriched statusline; .github/workflows CI All gates green: surface-sync (26 count + 3 table-row), skill-integrity, model-versions. --- .claude/agents/beamer-translator.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/claim-verifier.md | 19 +- .claude/agents/domain-referee.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/domain-reviewer.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/editor.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/humanize-auditor.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/methods-referee.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/pedagogy-reviewer.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/proofreader.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/quarto-critic.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/quarto-fixer.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/r-package-reviewer.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/r-reviewer.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/sim-reviewer.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/slide-auditor.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/tikz-reviewer.md | 3 +- .claude/agents/verifier.md | 3 +- .claude/hooks/context-monitor.py | 6 + .claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py | 112 +++++++++ .claude/hooks/log-reminder.py | 236 ++++++++++-------- .claude/hooks/pre-compact.py | 10 +- .claude/hooks/verify-reminder.py | 190 -------------- .claude/references/agent-fleet.md | 55 ++++ .claude/references/orchestration-schemas.md | 107 ++++++++ .claude/rules/model-routing.md | 4 + .claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md | 113 +++++---- .claude/rules/quality-gates.md | 6 +- .claude/rules/replication-protocol.md | 16 +- .claude/rules/summary-parity.md | 10 + .claude/scripts/statusline.sh | 29 ++- .claude/settings.json | 22 +- .claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md | 60 ++++- .claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md | 11 +- .claude/skills/qa-quarto/SKILL.md | 8 +- .claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md | 19 +- .claude/skills/seven-pass-review/SKILL.md | 10 +- .claude/skills/slide-excellence/SKILL.md | 4 +- .claude/skills/validate-bib/SKILL.md | 5 +- .claude/skills/verify-claims/SKILL.md | 12 +- .githooks/pre-commit | 75 ++++++ .github/workflows/deploy.yml | 36 +++ .github/workflows/gates.yml | 27 ++ CLAUDE.md | 3 +- README.md | 2 + scripts/check-surface-sync.py | 108 +++++++- scripts/install-hooks.sh | 27 ++ templates/passport-template.yaml | 6 +- 47 files changed, 978 insertions(+), 418 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py delete mode 100755 .claude/hooks/verify-reminder.py create mode 100644 .claude/references/agent-fleet.md create mode 100644 .claude/references/orchestration-schemas.md create mode 100755 .githooks/pre-commit create mode 100644 .github/workflows/deploy.yml create mode 100644 .github/workflows/gates.yml create mode 100755 scripts/install-hooks.sh diff --git a/.claude/agents/beamer-translator.md b/.claude/agents/beamer-translator.md index 775a39527..91616e829 100644 --- a/.claude/agents/beamer-translator.md +++ b/.claude/agents/beamer-translator.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ name: beamer-translator description: Specialist agent for translating Beamer LaTeX slides to Quarto RevealJS. Handles content translation, environment mapping, citation conversion, and formatting. Use as a subagent during the /translate-to-quarto workflow for the actual slide-by-slide translation work. tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash -model: inherit +model: sonnet +effort: medium --- You are a specialist in translating academic Beamer slides to Quarto RevealJS format. diff --git a/.claude/agents/claim-verifier.md b/.claude/agents/claim-verifier.md index e76ea2103..f27c3d98c 100644 --- a/.claude/agents/claim-verifier.md +++ b/.claude/agents/claim-verifier.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ name: claim-verifier description: Fresh-context verifier for factual claims made by other agents or skills. Implements the Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) independence trick via context forking — the verifier never sees the original draft, only the extracted claims + the source material. Use when a skill has produced a draft that contains citations, numerical facts, named entities, or literature references that need hallucination-checking before returning to the user. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, WebFetch, WebSearch, Bash -model: inherit +model: opus +effort: high --- @@ -39,6 +40,11 @@ claims: text: "The method requires conditional parallel trends." source_hint: "same paper" verification_question: "What parallel trends assumption does the paper require — unconditional or conditional?" + author_alternative: "" # OPTIONAL. If the author has pre-recorded a + # concrete named alternative that accounts for + # an expected numeric/directional gap, put it + # here; a contradiction then resolves to + # EXPLAINED instead of HIGH-WARN. Blank = none. ``` ### Step 2: Answer each question independently @@ -67,6 +73,7 @@ Each per-claim finding now carries a **severity tier** (v1.9.0): - **HIGH-WARN** — fabricated reference (cited paper does NOT exist at the named venue/year), direct contradiction between draft and source, or `not_found` retrieval that you interpret as a hallucinated citation. These block `/commit` via `/verify-claims`. - **MED-WARN** — transient infrastructure failure: DOI resolver timed out, partial PDF read, paywall the cache normally bypasses. The author should re-run the verification later or supply a local copy. - **LOW-WARN** — source genuinely inaccessible (paywalled with no cache hit, private dataset, pre-print server transient). Surface but do not gate-refuse — the claim may still be correct; the verifier just can't independently confirm. +- **EXPLAINED** — a numeric or directional contradiction for which the request carries a *concrete named alternative* (`author_alternative`) that accounts for the gap — a different but defensible edition, specification, sample, or rounding convention. Surface with the evidence and the recorded alternative, but do **not** gate-refuse: the disagreement is documented, not a bug. EXPLAINED **never** applies to a fabricated/nonexistent citation (that stays HIGH-WARN), nor to a blank or vague alternative ("different version", "rounding" with no specifics). ```markdown ## Claim Verification Report @@ -80,7 +87,7 @@ Each per-claim finding now carries a **severity tier** (v1.9.0): | ID | Claim (draft) | Independent answer | Evidence | Match? | Tier | |----|--------------|---------------------|----------|--------|------| -| C1 | [quoted claim] | [what source says] | [quote + loc] | yes / partial / no / cannot-verify | — / LOW / MED / HIGH | +| C1 | [quoted claim] | [what source says] | [quote + loc] | yes / partial / no / cannot-verify | — / LOW / MED / HIGH / EXPLAINED | ### HIGH-WARN (gate-refuse `/commit`) @@ -102,12 +109,12 @@ Each per-claim finding now carries a **severity tier** (v1.9.0): - "I retrieved the source and it contradicts the claim" → HIGH-WARN - "I cannot retrieve the source because of a transient failure" → MED-WARN - "I cannot retrieve the source because it's genuinely inaccessible" → LOW-WARN -- A cited paper that does NOT exist (no DOI, no arXiv id, no venue search hit) is **always HIGH-WARN** — this is the canonical hallucination signature. Do not soften to MED-WARN on the grounds that "maybe my search missed it." -- A numerical contradiction (draft says X, source says Y, X ≠ Y within rounding) is **always HIGH-WARN**. -- A directional contradiction (draft says "positive effect", source says "negative effect") is **always HIGH-WARN**. +- A cited paper that does NOT exist (no DOI, no arXiv id, no venue search hit) is **always HIGH-WARN** — this is the canonical hallucination signature. Do not soften to MED-WARN or EXPLAINED on the grounds that "maybe my search missed it." This is the hard floor: a fabricated citation is never downgradable. +- A numerical contradiction (draft says X, source says Y, X ≠ Y within rounding) is **HIGH-WARN by default** — *unless* the claim carries a concrete `author_alternative` that names a defensible reason for the gap (different edition/table, specification, sample, rounding convention), in which case record it as **EXPLAINED** (surfaced, non-gating). A blank or vague `author_alternative` does not soften — stay HIGH-WARN. +- A directional contradiction (draft says "positive effect", source says "negative effect") is **HIGH-WARN by default** — same EXPLAINED escape: only a concrete named alternative for that claim downgrades it; otherwise HIGH-WARN. - A paraphrase mismatch where the draft's gloss is a reasonable summary of the source — not HIGH-WARN. Flag as `partial` with no tier (or LOW if you want to surface the gloss difference). -Be conservative on HIGH-WARN. It blocks `/commit`. False positives erode the gate's authority; false negatives let known-bad claims ship. +Be conservative on HIGH-WARN. It blocks `/commit`. False positives erode the gate's authority; false negatives let known-bad claims ship. The EXPLAINED escape exists only to stop a *defensible, author-documented* disagreement from gate-blocking — it is never a way to wave through a fabricated citation or an undocumented contradiction. ## What you DO NOT do diff --git a/.claude/agents/domain-referee.md b/.claude/agents/domain-referee.md index 67512c767..bbfeb79cf 100644 --- a/.claude/agents/domain-referee.md +++ b/.claude/agents/domain-referee.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ name: domain-referee description: Substantive referee for a manuscript. Reviews contribution, literature positioning, substantive argument, external validity, and journal fit. Calibrated to a target journal and primed with a disposition + pet peeves by the editor agent. Used by `/review-paper --peer`. tools: Read, Grep, Glob -model: inherit +model: opus +effort: high --- | Command | What It Does | |---------|-------------| | `/compile-latex [file]` | 3-pass XeLaTeX + bibtex | diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f846516b7..59bbb066c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — ### Agents (`.claude/agents/`) + | Agent | What It Does | |-------|-------------| | `proofreader` | Grammar, typos, overflow, consistency review | @@ -205,6 +206,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — ### Skills (`.claude/skills/`) + | Skill | What It Does | |-------|-------------| | `/compile-latex` | 3-pass XeLaTeX compilation with bibtex | diff --git a/scripts/check-surface-sync.py b/scripts/check-surface-sync.py index 9e1663331..082192808 100755 --- a/scripts/check-surface-sync.py +++ b/scripts/check-surface-sync.py @@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ (agent, rule, hook) updates `.claude/` but leaves stale counts in README, CLAUDE.md, the guide source, the rendered guide, or the landing page. +Two kinds of check: + 1. COUNT assertions — prose like "13 agents, 27 skills, 21 rules" must + match the on-disk inventory (the original check). + 2. TABLE-ROW assertions — an enumerative markdown table preceded by a + `` marker must have exactly one + data row per item of on disk. This catches the drift the + count check misses: e.g. the v1.5.0 peer-review trio that was added + to `.claude/` but left OUT of the README/CLAUDE.md skills tables for + three releases (the counts were right; the table rows were stale). + Run via `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` pre-commit, or `/commit` will invoke it automatically. @@ -91,6 +101,24 @@ (r"\((\d+)\s+skills?\s+for\b", "skills"), ] +# Enumerative-table markers. A surface opts a markdown table into the +# row-count gate by placing this comment immediately before it: +# +# +# | Skill | What It Does | +# |-------|--------------| +# | `/compile-latex` | ... | <- one data row per skill on disk +# +# must be a key of GROUND_TRUTH. The data-row count (header and the +# `|---|` separator excluded) must equal the on-disk count for that kind. +# Only markdown sources should carry the marker — do NOT add it to the +# rendered .html surfaces (their tables are , not pipe rows). +TABLE_MARKER_RE = re.compile(r"") + + +def _is_table_row(line: str) -> bool: + return line.lstrip().startswith("|") + def scan_file(path: Path) -> list[tuple[int, str, int, str]]: """ @@ -121,6 +149,56 @@ def scan_file(path: Path) -> list[tuple[int, str, int, str]]: return hits +def scan_tables(path: Path) -> list[tuple[int, str, int | None, str]]: + """ + Find every `` marker and count the + data rows of the markdown table that immediately follows it. + + Returns [(marker_line_number, kind, data_row_count, marker_raw)]. + `data_row_count` is None when no well-formed table follows the marker. + """ + if not path.exists(): + return [] + lines = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines() + n = len(lines) + hits: list[tuple[int, str, int | None, str]] = [] + i = 0 + while i < n: + m = TABLE_MARKER_RE.search(lines[i]) + if not m: + i += 1 + continue + kind = m.group(1) + marker_lineno = i + 1 + marker_raw = lines[i].strip() + + # Advance to the header row: the first pipe-line after the marker, + # skipping intervening blanks/prose (a heading often sits between). + j = i + 1 + while j < n and not _is_table_row(lines[j]) and not TABLE_MARKER_RE.search(lines[j]): + j += 1 + + # Need: header pipe-line, then a `|---|` separator, then data rows. + if ( + j >= n + or not _is_table_row(lines[j]) + or j + 1 >= n + or "---" not in lines[j + 1] + ): + hits.append((marker_lineno, kind, None, marker_raw)) + i = j + 1 + continue + + k = j + 2 # first data row + count = 0 + while k < n and _is_table_row(lines[k]): + count += 1 + k += 1 + hits.append((marker_lineno, kind, count, marker_raw)) + i = k + return hits + + def main() -> int: rel = lambda p: p.relative_to(REPO) drift: list[str] = [] @@ -152,6 +230,32 @@ def main() -> int: f"[matched: {raw!r}]" ) + # Enumerative-table row-count assertions (marker-driven). + table_hits = 0 + for path in SURFACES: + for lineno, kind, count, raw in scan_tables(path): + table_hits += 1 + if kind not in GROUND_TRUTH: + drift.append( + f" {rel(path)}:{lineno} unknown table kind {kind!r} " + f"(expected one of {', '.join(sorted(GROUND_TRUTH))}) " + f"[marker: {raw!r}]" + ) + continue + if count is None: + drift.append( + f" {rel(path)}:{lineno} marker {raw!r} is not " + f"immediately followed by a well-formed markdown table" + ) + continue + expected = GROUND_TRUTH[kind] + if count != expected: + drift.append( + f" {rel(path)}:{lineno} '{kind}' table has {count} " + f"data row(s) (actual {kind} on disk: {expected}) " + f"[marker: {raw!r}]" + ) + if drift: print("DRIFT DETECTED:", file=sys.stderr) for d in drift: @@ -165,8 +269,8 @@ def main() -> int: return 1 total_assertions = sum(len(v) for v in per_file.values()) - print(f"All {total_assertions} count assertions match ground truth across " - f"{len(SURFACES)} surfaces.") + print(f"All {total_assertions} count assertions + {table_hits} enumerative-" + f"table row counts match ground truth across {len(SURFACES)} surfaces.") return 0 diff --git a/scripts/install-hooks.sh b/scripts/install-hooks.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000..c4da202cb --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/install-hooks.sh @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# +# Install the repo's version-controlled git hooks (run once per clone). +# +# Points git at `.githooks/` so `git commit` runs the pre-commit quality +# gate (surface-sync + quality score). The hook lives in version control, +# so it stays in sync across machines and forks — unlike `.git/hooks/`, +# which is local and never committed. +# +set -euo pipefail + +REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" +cd "$REPO_ROOT" + +if [ ! -d .githooks ]; then + echo "install-hooks: .githooks/ not found at repo root" >&2 + exit 1 +fi + +chmod +x .githooks/* 2>/dev/null || true +git config core.hooksPath .githooks + +echo "✓ core.hooksPath → .githooks" +echo " Every 'git commit' now runs surface-sync + quality (>=80) gates." +echo " Bypass once: SKIP_QUALITY_GATE=1 git commit ... (quality only)" +echo " git commit --no-verify ... (all hooks)" +echo " Uninstall: git config --unset core.hooksPath" diff --git a/templates/passport-template.yaml b/templates/passport-template.yaml index bc3f20d54..8c34ca7b3 100644 --- a/templates/passport-template.yaml +++ b/templates/passport-template.yaml @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ claims: n: exact # sample-size mismatch is never tolerated last_verified_on: 2026-05-20T00:00:00Z last_verified_by: "/audit-reproducibility" - status: UNVERIFIED # PASS | FAIL | STALE | UNVERIFIED + status: UNVERIFIED # PASS | FAIL | EXPLAINED | STALE | UNVERIFIED notes: | Optional notes. Use this field to record: - Known small discrepancies and why they're within tolerance @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ claims: - Cross-references to other claims that depend on this one (e.g., "C5 derives a derived quantity from C1; both must update together"). + - To downgrade an out-of-tolerance FAIL to EXPLAINED, a CONCRETE + named alternative spec (e.g., "never-treated vs not-yet-treated + comparison group; published value matches under not-yet-treated"). + A blank or vague note ("unclear") never downgrades a FAIL. # Example claim 2 — a percentage figure from a robustness check - id: C2 From 692614f69611db7141706d3477c9eca66981aecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:43:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 02/19] feat(v2.0 Phase 4): from reproducibility auditor to package producer (8 economist skills) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit New producer skills (skills 38→46), drafted to AEA/DCAS gold standard: - /replication-package — submission-ready DCAS/openICPSR deposit (README, manifest, env, Table→script:line map); gates on /audit-reproducibility - /capture-environment — renv.lock/requirements/uv.lock + Stata ado list + optional Dockerfile + seeds - /did-event-study — THIN wrapper over canonical packages (Callaway-Sant'Anna did, Sun-Abraham, HonestDiD; Stata twins); never reimplements an estimator - /power-analysis — RCT/cluster/multi-arm/simulation power + MDE; wired into /preregister - /disclosure-check — SDL pre-screen for restricted-data outputs (small cells, dominance, PII); gates on CRITICAL - /grant-proposal, /data-management-plan — compose confidential-data + capture-environment + DMP primitives - /coauthor-brief — multi-machine/collaborator handoff brief Plus: - .claude/rules/confidential-data.md (rules 28→29) — restricted-data protocol + multi-author git topology - journal-profiles.md: AEA Data Editor / DCAS policy note (all AEA-imprint journals) - preregister wired to /power-analysis for RCT sample plans Count-sync: skills 38→46 + rules 28→29 across README/CLAUDE/guide/docs/skill-template; +8 rows in both skill tables. All gates green (surface-sync, skill-integrity, model-versions). --- .claude/references/journal-profiles.md | 2 + .claude/rules/confidential-data.md | 53 +++++++ .claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md | 136 +++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md | 132 +++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md | 125 ++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md | 144 ++++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md | 140 ++++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/grant-proposal/SKILL.md | 145 +++++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md | 129 +++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md | 3 +- .claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md | 135 +++++++++++++++++ CLAUDE.md | 8 + README.md | 10 +- docs/index.html | 4 +- docs/workflow-guide.html | 4 +- guide/workflow-guide.qmd | 6 +- templates/skill-template.md | 2 +- 17 files changed, 1168 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/rules/confidential-data.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/grant-proposal/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md diff --git a/.claude/references/journal-profiles.md b/.claude/references/journal-profiles.md index 5fd7b1fa2..9938a5031 100644 --- a/.claude/references/journal-profiles.md +++ b/.claude/references/journal-profiles.md @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ Every profile has these fields: ## Econ Top-5 +> **AEA Data Editor / DCAS policy (applies to all AEA-imprint journals — AER, AEJ:*, JEL, JEP).** Acceptance is conditional on a replication package that clears the **AEA Data and Code Availability Standard** under the Data Editor: a complete deposit (openICPSR), a data availability statement, and code that reproduces every reported number. Run [`/replication-package`](../skills/replication-package/SKILL.md) (which gates on [`/audit-reproducibility`](../skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md)) before submission; for restricted data, deposit cleared outputs + access instructions per [`confidential-data.md`](../rules/confidential-data.md). Econometrica, ReStud, and the political-science journals below enforce comparable archives at acceptance. + ### American Economic Review (AER) **Short name:** `AER` diff --git a/.claude/rules/confidential-data.md b/.claude/rules/confidential-data.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ec80efd44 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/rules/confidential-data.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +paths: + - "data/**" + - "**/*.dta" + - "**/*.sav" + - "**/raw/**" + - "**/restricted/**" + - "**/confidential/**" +--- + +# Confidential & Restricted-Data Protocol + +**Some data must never leave the machine it was approved for, and some results must never leave the data center.** Economists work constantly with restricted-access data — Census FSRDC, IRS, administrative registers, health records, proprietary firm panels, IRB-governed human-subjects data. This rule is the standing contract for handling it; it is path-scoped to data directories and restricted formats so it loads exactly when relevant. + +This is a **template** — replace the placeholder thresholds and providers with your data-use-agreement's actual terms. + +--- + +## The three hard rules + +1. **Never commit raw confidential data.** Raw microdata, identifiers, and provider-supplied files do not belong in git — not even in a private repo, not even once. `.gitignore` must cover `data/raw/`, `data/restricted/`, `*.dta`/`*.sav` containing microdata, and any path your DUA names. Commit *code* and *derived, disclosure-cleared* outputs only. +2. **Nothing leaves without disclosure clearance.** Any table, figure, coefficient, or count built on restricted data must pass disclosure-avoidance review *before* it appears in a draft, a slide, a commit, or an email. Pre-screen with [`/disclosure-check`](../skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md); the data provider's official review is still mandatory and final. +3. **Access is per-person, per-agreement.** A co-author without the DUA cannot receive the data, the identifiers, or outputs that fail disclosure rules. Handoffs ([`/coauthor-brief`](../skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md)) carry *instructions to obtain access*, never the data. + +## Disclosure avoidance (the short version) + +The thresholds your provider enforces — encode them in `/disclosure-check`'s config: + +- **Minimum cell count** (e.g., suppress any cell with n < 10; FSRDC and IRS differ — use yours). +- **Dominance / concentration** (p-percent and (n,k) rules for establishment data). +- **Complementary suppression** (suppressing one cell can leak via row/column totals — suppress complements too). +- **No exact extreme values, no unrounded sensitive statistics, no small-group identifiers, no fine geography.** + +When a numeric claim is built on restricted data, its passport entry ([`replication-protocol.md`](replication-protocol.md)) should note the disclosure status, and the replication package ([`/replication-package`](../skills/replication-package/SKILL.md)) deposits only the cleared outputs plus *access instructions* for the data — never the data itself (this is exactly the AEA Data Editor's "restricted data" deposit path). + +## Human subjects / IRB + +If the data is human-subjects: record the IRB protocol number, the approved use, and any consent constraints in the project spec. Do not analyze beyond the approved scope. The [`/data-management-plan`](../skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md) captures the storage, retention, and destruction terms. + +## Multi-author git topology (restricted-data-safe collaboration) + +- **Feature branches per author**, merged via PR — the same flow the rest of the template uses; no author force-pushes shared history (the [`git-guardrails`](../hooks/git-guardrails.py) hook blocks `--force` and `git add -A`, which is how raw data usually leaks into a commit). +- **`MEMORY.md` syncs via git; `.claude/state/personal-memory.md` stays local** (`meta-governance.md`). Machine-specific restricted-data *paths* live in personal-memory, never in committed files. +- A collaborator joining a restricted-data project gets a [`/coauthor-brief`](../skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md) with environment setup ([`/capture-environment`](../skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md) lockfiles) and **access-request steps**, not a data drop. +- Enable strict path-leak protection while in restricted dirs: `CLAUDE_STRICT_PATHS=1` makes `git-guardrails` *deny* (not just warn) hardcoded machine paths in code. + +## Cross-references + +- [`/disclosure-check`](../skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md) — pre-screen outputs against these thresholds. +- [`/data-management-plan`](../skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md) — the funder-facing version of this contract. +- [`/replication-package`](../skills/replication-package/SKILL.md) — restricted-data deposit path (cleared outputs + access instructions). +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](replication-protocol.md) — passport entries note disclosure status. +- [`.claude/rules/meta-governance.md`](meta-governance.md) — the committed-vs-local two-tier model this builds on. diff --git a/.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a12e32fc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ +--- +name: capture-environment +description: Snapshot the computational environment for a replication package — detects the analysis stack (R / Stata / Python) and emits the right lockfiles (renv.lock + sessionInfo.txt, requirements.txt / environment.yml / uv.lock, Stata version + ado package list), records seeds and RNG kind, optionally writes a pinning Dockerfile, and produces a paste-ready "Computational requirements" block. Use when user says "capture the environment", "snapshot my dependencies", "pin the versions", "make a renv.lock / requirements.txt", "make this byte-reproducible", or before releasing a replication package to openICPSR / the AEA Data Editor. +argument-hint: "[project-dir] [--docker] [--no-verify] (project-dir defaults to repo root)" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Bash"] +effort: medium +--- + +# `/capture-environment` — snapshot the computational environment + +A replication package that runs on the author's laptop in 2026 and nowhere else in 2029 is not reproducible. This skill captures the *exact* computational environment — language versions, package versions, seeds, RNG kind, and (optionally) the OS layer — so a referee, the AEA Data Editor, or future-you can reconstruct it. It detects which stack the project uses and emits the artifacts that stack's ecosystem expects, then verifies the lockfile installs clean. + +**Core principle:** Pin everything a result depends on. Display rounding aside, a re-run on a pinned environment should reproduce the paper to the [`replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) tolerances — *byte-identical* when the optional Dockerfile is used. + +## When to use + +- **Before releasing a replication package** to openICPSR, Zenodo, Dataverse, or a journal archive — the AEA Data Editor / DCAS standard expects a documented, version-pinned environment. +- **Before submission**, alongside [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — that skill checks the *numbers*; this one captures the *environment* those numbers were produced in (its `sessionInfo.txt` requirement is satisfied by this skill). +- **After adding or upgrading a package** mid-project — re-snapshot so the lockfile doesn't drift from what the code actually loads. +- **When handing a project to a co-author or RA** who needs to reconstruct your stack. + +## Inputs + +- `$0` — project directory. Defaults to the repo root. The skill looks under `scripts/R/`, `scripts/stata/`, `scripts/python/`. +- `--docker` — also emit a `Dockerfile` pinning OS + language version + system libraries for byte-identical reproduction. +- `--no-verify` — skip Phase 3 (the best-effort clean-install check). Useful in CI or when the toolchain isn't installed locally. + +## Workflow + +### Phase 0: Detect the stack + +Glob for stack signals and decide which capture paths to run (a project may be multi-language — DiD in R, an IV robustness check in Stata): + +| Signal | Stack | Capture path | +|---|---|---| +| `scripts/R/*.R`, `DESCRIPTION`, `renv/`, `*.Rproj` | **R** | renv + sessionInfo | +| `scripts/python/*.py`, `*.ipynb`, `pyproject.toml`, `requirements.txt`, `environment.yml`, `uv.lock` | **Python** | pip / conda / uv | +| `scripts/stata/*.do` | **Stata** | version + ado list | + +If no signal is found, report and stop — there is no environment to capture. + +### Phase 1: Capture per language + +**R** — emit two artifacts: +- `renv.lock` via `renv::snapshot()` (run `renv::init(bare = TRUE)` first if the project isn't renv-managed; snapshot records every package + version + source/remote and the R version). Honors the seed conventions in [`r-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/r-code-conventions.md). +- `sessionInfo.txt` via `Rscript -e "writeLines(capture.output(sessionInfo()), 'scripts/R/_outputs/sessionInfo.txt')"` — the human-readable companion `/audit-reproducibility` looks for. + +**Python** — emit whichever matches the project's existing tooling (do not invent a new one): +- `uv.lock` (preferred when `pyproject.toml` + `uv` present — fully-resolved, hashed, cross-platform): `uv lock` / `uv export --format requirements-txt > requirements.txt`. +- `requirements.txt` via `pip freeze` (or `python -m pip freeze`) for a venv/pip project — pin `==` exactly. +- `environment.yml` via `conda env export --no-builds` for a conda project. +Always also record the interpreter version (`python --version`) in the report. + +**Stata** — Stata has no lockfile, so capture the closest equivalents (mirrors [`stata-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/stata-code-conventions.md) §3): +- The pinned `version` line each `.do` file declares (e.g. `version 18`) — grep `scripts/stata/*.do` and report the version actually pinned. +- An ado/plus package inventory: a small `.do` that runs `which` on the user-installed commands the pipeline uses (`reghdfe`, `ivreg2`, `estout`/`esttab`, `rdrobust`, `csdid`, …) plus `ado dir` and `about`, logged to `scripts/stata/_outputs/sessionInfo.txt`. +- A note that Stata version pinning is *semantic* (`version 18` fixes command behavior), not a binary pin — the Dockerfile (Phase 2) cannot help here because Stata is licensed and not redistributable; record the exact Stata version + flavor (SE/MP/IC) + update level in the report so a replicator can match it. + +### Phase 1b: Record seeds and RNG + +Grep the analysis scripts for the master seed and RNG kind so the "Computational requirements" block can state them: +- **R**: `set.seed(YYYYMMDD)`, and `RNGkind()` — flag `"L'Ecuyer-CMRG"` if parallel/Monte Carlo work is present (see [`simulation-conventions.md`](../../rules/simulation-conventions.md)). +- **Stata**: `set seed` and `set sortseed`. +- **Python**: `numpy.random.default_rng(seed)` / `random.seed()` / framework seeds. + +If the pipeline does randomized work (bootstrap, MC, RCT re-randomization, permutation inference) and **no** seed is found, surface it as a WARNING — an unseeded random result is not reproducible. + +### Phase 2: Dockerfile (only with `--docker`) + +Emit a `Dockerfile` that pins the OS + language version + system libraries for byte-identical reproduction: +- **R** → `FROM rocker/r-ver:` (Rocker pins the R version), `COPY renv.lock`, `RUN R -e "renv::restore()"`, plus `apt-get install` for system libs the packages need (e.g. `libcurl4-openssl-dev`, `libgdal-dev` for spatial work). +- **Python** → `FROM python:-slim`, `COPY requirements.txt` / `uv.lock`, `RUN pip install -r requirements.txt` (or `uv sync --frozen`). +- **Stata** → cannot pin the licensed binary; emit a `Dockerfile` stub that documents the expected Stata version + flavor and leaves the `stata` install/license step to the replicator (with a comment pointing at the AEA's guidance on Stata images). + +Pin a digest where possible (`FROM image@sha256:…`) so the base image can't drift. + +### Phase 3: Verify the lockfile installs clean (best-effort; skip with `--no-verify`) + +Attempt a clean restore in a throwaway location and report PASS / FAIL — never overwrite the working environment: +- **R**: `renv::restore()` into a temp library, or `Rscript -e "renv::status()"` for a dry check. +- **Python**: `uv sync --frozen` / `pip install --dry-run -r requirements.txt` into a fresh venv. +- **Docker** (if `--docker`): `docker build` the image. + +A FAIL here means the lockfile references a package version that can't be resolved (yanked release, private remote, platform-specific wheel). Report it; do not auto-edit the lockfile. + +### Phase 4: Report + +Print a paste-ready block and write it to `scripts//_outputs/computational_requirements.md`: + +```markdown +## Computational requirements + +**Software:** R 4.4.1 (or: Stata 18.0 SE, update 2026-01-15; Python 3.12.3) +**OS used:** macOS 15.5 (arm64) — Dockerfile pins Ubuntu 24.04 for portability +**Key packages:** fixest 0.12.1, did 2.1.2 (full list in renv.lock) +**Random seeds:** set.seed(20260609); RNGkind("L'Ecuyer-CMRG") for the bootstrap +**Approx. runtime:** [author confirms — e.g. ~12 min, 8 cores] +**Lockfiles in package:** renv.lock, scripts/R/_outputs/sessionInfo.txt[, Dockerfile] +``` + +Pre-fill software/package/seed lines from the captured artifacts; leave runtime for the author to confirm. + +## Output / artifacts + +| Stack | Files written | +|---|---| +| R | `renv.lock`, `scripts/R/_outputs/sessionInfo.txt` | +| Python | `requirements.txt` *or* `environment.yml` *or* `uv.lock` (matching project tooling) | +| Stata | `scripts/stata/_outputs/sessionInfo.txt` (version + ado list) | +| Any (`--docker`) | `Dockerfile` | +| Always | `scripts//_outputs/computational_requirements.md` (the paste-ready block) | + +## Exit behavior + +- **All captures succeeded, verify PASS (or `--no-verify`):** exit 0, requirements block printed. +- **A missing-seed WARNING on a randomized pipeline:** exit 0 with the warning surfaced — reproducibility is compromised but the snapshot still wrote. +- **Verify FAIL (lockfile won't resolve):** exit 1, so the skill can gate a pre-release `/commit`. Report the unresolvable package; do not silently "fix" the lockfile. +- **No stack detected in Phase 0:** exit 1 with the directories searched. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — the tolerance contract a pinned environment is meant to reproduce. +- [`.claude/rules/r-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/r-code-conventions.md) — R seeding + output-path conventions this skill reads. +- [`.claude/rules/stata-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/stata-code-conventions.md) — §3 `sessionInfo.txt` + `version`-pinning the Stata path mirrors. +- [`.claude/rules/simulation-conventions.md`](../../rules/simulation-conventions.md) — L'Ecuyer streams for reproducible parallel/MC work. +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — when raw data is restricted, the *environment* still ships even though the data does not; coordinate the README's "data availability" section with this block. +- [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — consumes the `sessionInfo.txt` this skill produces; run it after. +- [`/data-analysis`](../data-analysis/SKILL.md), [`/stata-replication`](../stata-replication/SKILL.md), [`/simulation-study`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md) — the pipelines whose environment this snapshots. +- [AEA Data Editor checklist](https://aeadataeditor.github.io/) / [openICPSR](https://www.openicpsr.org/) / DCAS — the external standards this skill targets. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Re-run your analysis or check your numbers.** It captures the environment; [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) verifies the manuscript's numeric claims against the outputs. +- **Package or de-identify data.** Lockfiles describe software, not data. Disclosure avoidance, de-identification, and data-availability statements are out of scope — see [`confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md). +- **Upgrade or "fix" your dependencies.** It records what the code currently uses. If a verify FAIL surfaces a yanked version, you decide whether to pin an alternative. +- **Pin a Stata binary.** Stata is licensed and not redistributable; the skill records the exact version/flavor/update so a replicator can match it, but cannot containerize it. diff --git a/.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..692387936 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ +--- +name: coauthor-brief +description: Generate a co-author / collaborator handoff brief for a multi-author, multi-machine project — summarizing what changed since the last brief (git delta), the current state of each artifact (manuscript, analysis, slides), open questions, how to reproduce locally, and any restricted-data access steps. Use when user says "coauthor brief", "handoff brief", "bring my coauthor up to speed", "what changed since last week", "onboard a collaborator", "write a handoff for [name]", or before sending a co-author the repo. NOT a commit or a checkpoint — it is the cross-machine, cross-person summary `meta-governance.md` only partially covers. +author: Claude Code Academic Workflow +version: 1.0.0 +argument-hint: "[--since ] [--for ] [--no-data-section]" +disable-model-invocation: true +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Glob", "Grep", "Bash"] +effort: medium +--- + +# /coauthor-brief — Collaborator Handoff Brief + +Produce a single Markdown brief a co-author (or your future self on another machine) can read in a few minutes to know **what changed, where each artifact stands, what's blocked, and how to run the pipeline locally** — including restricted-data access steps a new collaborator needs. [`meta-governance.md`](../../rules/meta-governance.md) covers the *memory* side of cross-machine work (what syncs via git, what stays in gitignored `personal-memory.md`); this skill covers the *human* side: the per-person, per-session handoff. + +**Core principle:** `/checkpoint` is for *you* resuming; `/coauthor-brief` is for *someone else* starting. The first answers "where am I?"; the second answers "what do I need to know to take over a piece of this?" + +## When to use + +- **Before sending a co-author the repo** (or a PR / branch) and you want them oriented, not archaeologizing the git log. +- **Onboarding a new RA / collaborator** who needs the reproduce-locally and restricted-data steps in one place. +- **Periodic sync** on a long multi-author project — "here's the delta since the last brief." +- **Cross-machine handoff** — finishing on the office desktop, picking up on the laptop, or handing the analysis half to a co-author who runs Stata while you run R. + +## When NOT to use + +- For *your own* resume-point — use [`/checkpoint`](../checkpoint/SKILL.md). +- For distilling a noisy session before auto-compact — use [`/compress-session`](../compress-session/SKILL.md). +- For the commit message itself — that goes through [`/commit`](../commit/SKILL.md). + +## Phases + +### Phase 0 — Determine the "since" point + +Resolve the delta window, in this priority order: + +1. `--since ` if given — a git tag, an ISO date, or `Ndays` (e.g. `--since v1.2`, `--since 2026-05-01`, `--since 14days`). +2. Else, the **last brief** — `ls -t quality_reports/handoffs/*.md | head -1`; use the date in its filename as the floor. +3. Else, fall back to **14 days** and say so in the brief (an unbounded `git log` is noise, not signal). + +Echo the resolved window back before gathering ("Brief covers changes since `` …"). + +### Phase 1 — Gather the delta + project state + +Read-only collection. Skip any source that doesn't apply (R-only, Stata-only, no slides) rather than fabricating. + +1. **Git delta** — `git log --oneline --since=` (or `..HEAD`), `git diff --stat ..HEAD`, `git branch --show-current`, and `git log --all --oneline -15` to see co-authors' parallel branches. Group commits by area (manuscript / analysis / slides / infra). +2. **Reproducibility status** — if a passport exists at `quality_reports/passports/.yaml`, read the PASS / FAIL / EXPLAINED / STALE / UNVERIFIED roll-up ([`audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md), [`replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md)). Note whether the analysis is replication-ready or has open FAILs. +3. **Open plan items** — most recent `quality_reports/plans/*.md` (status + any "Open questions" / "Next" lines) and the latest `quality_reports/session_logs/*.md` blockers. +4. **Environment / lockfiles** — locate the env capture a collaborator needs: `renv.lock` (R), `requirements.txt` / `environment.yml` / `uv.lock` (Python), a Stata `version` line + `.do` `ssc install` list, or whatever [`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) wrote. Record the exact restore command. +5. **Restricted-data steps** *(skip if `--no-data-section`)* — if the repo touches confidential/restricted data, read [`confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) and summarize the access path a new collaborator needs (DUA / IRB approval, secure-enclave or openICPSR-restricted credentials, where the data lives, what is git-ignored vs committed). **Never copy actual restricted values, paths to live extracts, or credentials into the brief** — describe the *process to obtain access*, not the data. + +### Phase 2 — Write the brief + +Use the template below. Keep it tight (~1–2 screens). Concrete `path:line` pointers beat prose. + +```markdown +--- +date: YYYY-MM-DD +for: [collaborator name or "all coauthors"] +since: [tag | date | Ndays] +branch: [current branch] +--- + +# Co-Author Brief — [project / paper short name] + +## What changed since [since-point] +[3–8 bullets, grouped by area. Each: what changed + why it matters to a reader, not raw commit subjects.] +- **Analysis:** re-estimated the event-study with not-yet-treated controls (Callaway–Sant'Anna); main ATT now −1.19 — see `scripts/R/03_analyze.R:147`. +- **Manuscript:** Table 2 + §4.2 rewritten to match; Figure 3 regenerated. +- **Slides:** untouched. + +## Current state of each artifact +| Artifact | Path | State | Notes | +|---|---|---|---| +| Manuscript | `manuscript.tex` | drafting §5 | robustness section is a stub | +| Analysis | `scripts/R/` | replication-ready | passport: 11 PASS, 1 EXPLAINED, 0 FAIL | +| Slides | `Slides/` | current | matches latest results | + +## Open questions / decisions needed +[Things the co-author should weigh in on. Mark Q1, Q2…; flag which block progress.] + +## Reproduce locally +1. Clone + branch: `git checkout ` +2. Restore environment: `Rscript -e 'renv::restore()'` (or `pip install -r requirements.txt` / Stata `do _setup.do`). +3. Run the pipeline: `Rscript scripts/R/00_run_all.R` (or `00_master.do` / `make all`). +4. Verify: `/audit-reproducibility manuscript.tex` should report 0 FAIL. + +## Restricted-data access (if applicable) +[Process to obtain access — DUA/IRB/enclave/openICPSR-restricted steps. NO actual data, paths to live extracts, or credentials. See confidential-data.md.] + +## Recommended git topology for this project +- One **feature branch per author** (`feat/-`); rebase on `main`, open a PR, merge via `/commit`. +- `MEMORY.md` is **committed** — generic learnings sync to everyone. +- `personal-memory.md` and `.claude/state/` stay **local** (gitignored) — never expect a co-author to have yours (see meta-governance.md). +- Pull before you brief; brief before you hand off. +``` + +### Phase 3 — Save and summarize + +1. Write to `quality_reports/handoffs/YYYY-MM-DD_coauthor-brief.md` (create `quality_reports/handoffs/` if missing). If `--for` is set, suffix the slug (`…_coauthor-brief_.md`). +2. Print to chat: saved path, the resolved since-window, counts (commits summarized / open questions / artifacts), and whether the data section was included or skipped. + +## Output / report format + +A single Markdown handoff doc at `quality_reports/handoffs/YYYY-MM-DD_coauthor-brief.md` matching the Phase 2 template, plus a one-line chat summary. No edits to any other file. + +## Exit behavior + +- **Brief written:** exit 0 with the saved path and summary line. +- **No "since" resolvable and no git history in window:** still write the brief with an explicit "no changes in window" note rather than failing — a co-author starting fresh still needs the state + reproduce + data sections. +- **Restricted-data repo detected but `confidential-data.md` missing:** write the brief, leave the data section with a `TODO: complete per your DUA` placeholder, and warn — do **not** guess the access process. + +## Flags + +- `--since` `` — Baseline to diff against — a git tag, an ISO date, or `Ndays` (e.g. `14days`). Default: the previous brief in `quality_reports/handoffs/`, else the last tag. +- `--for` `` — Tailor the brief to a specific collaborator (e.g. surface the restricted-data access steps they still need). + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/rules/meta-governance.md`](../../rules/meta-governance.md) — the cross-machine memory model (what syncs, what stays local) this brief operationalizes for *people*. +- [`.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) — produces the lockfiles the "Reproduce locally" section points at. +- [`.claude/skills/checkpoint/SKILL.md`](../checkpoint/SKILL.md) — the *self*-resume companion (this skill is the *other-person* handoff). +- [`.claude/skills/compress-session/SKILL.md`](../compress-session/SKILL.md) — distil a noisy session before compaction (orthogonal; run before briefing if context is fat). +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — restricted-data handling; the data section summarizes its access steps without exposing data. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Push, PR, or merge.** It writes a doc. Branch/PR/merge is [`/commit`](../commit/SKILL.md)'s job. +- **Run the pipeline or audit numbers.** It *reports* passport status if one exists; it does not re-run analysis or re-verify claims — that's [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md). +- **Capture the environment.** It locates and links existing lockfiles; generating them is [`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md). +- **Expose restricted data.** It describes the *access process* only — never copies confidential values, live data paths, or credentials into a brief that may be emailed or committed. diff --git a/.claude/skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..047c6b0cc --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,125 @@ +--- +name: data-management-plan +description: Draft a funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF DMP, NIH DMS Policy 2023, ERC, Horizon Europe) by composing the confidential-data and environment-capture primitives. Sections cover data description, formats/metadata, storage/backup, access/sharing, preservation/archiving, and roles. Use when user says "data management plan", "DMP", "DMSP", "NIH data sharing plan", "write the data plan for my grant", or when a grant proposal needs a data-management section. NOT a submission tool — produces a draft the user pastes into the funder portal (DMPTool, NIH ASSIST, Horizon Europe portal). +argument-hint: "[--funder nsf|nih|erc|horizon] [--input ] [--no-verify]" +disable-model-invocation: true +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Task"] +effort: medium +--- + +# `/data-management-plan` — Funder-Compliant DMP Generator + +Produce a Data Management Plan ready to paste into a funder portal. This skill writes the prose and structure; it does **not** submit anywhere. It is a **composition** skill — it folds the disclosure-avoidance / IRB rules from [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) and the environment + replication-package plan from `/capture-environment` and `/replication-package` into a single funder-shaped document. + +## When to use + +- **Writing a grant proposal.** Every NSF, NIH, ERC, and Horizon Europe proposal needs a DMP (NSF), DMS Plan (NIH 2023 policy), or Data Management Plan (ERC/Horizon). `/grant-proposal` calls this skill for that section. +- **Before data collection on a funded project.** The plan is a commitment you make at award time and report against at renewal. +- **When restricted or human-subjects data is involved.** The access/sharing and preservation sections change materially — see Phase 2. + +## When NOT to use + +- For a clinical-trial data-sharing statement governed by ICMJE / ClinicalTrials.gov — use the trial sponsor's template. +- As a substitute for IRB protocol text — the DMP *references* IRB constraints; it is not the protocol itself. + +## Inputs + +- `$0` `--funder nsf|nih|erc|horizon` — target funder profile. If omitted, Phase 0 detects it from `--input` or asks once. +- `--input ` — a research spec (`/interview-me` output under `quality_reports/specs/`), a grant draft, or a `passport`-adjacent description. The skill extracts data types, sample, and identification strategy from it. +- `--no-verify` — skip the Phase 4 citation/standard post-flight (inherited from `/preregister`). + +## Workflow + +### Phase 0 — Detect funder + data sensitivity + +1. Resolve the funder (`--funder`, else infer from `--input`, else ask once). Load its section schema: + + | Funder | Plan name | Required sections (abridged) | + |---|---|---| + | **NSF** | Data Management Plan (2 pp max) | data types · standards · access/sharing · re-use/redistribution · archiving | + | **NIH** | DMS Plan (2023 policy) | data type · tools/software · standards · preservation/access/timelines · access/distribution + reuse · oversight | + | **ERC** | DMP (Horizon Europe Annex) | FAIR per dataset · data summary · making data FAIR · resource allocation · security · ethics | + | **Horizon Europe** | DMP (DMP template) | same FAIR-first structure as ERC; open by default, "as open as possible, as closed as necessary" | + +2. Classify the data on three axes (drives Phases 2–3): + - **Public** (open survey, scraped public records, simulated) — minimal restrictions. + - **Restricted** (admin/tax/Census, proprietary, licensed under DUA) — access procedures dominate. + - **Human-subjects** (PII, biospecimen-linked, survey with identifiers) — IRB + disclosure avoidance dominate. + + If the data is restricted *or* human-subjects, set `sensitive = true` and run Phase 2. If it is purely public, Phase 2 is a short paragraph. + +### Phase 1 — Scaffold sections from the funder profile + +Generate the six house sections, mapped onto the funder's required headings: + +1. **Data description & types** — what data, source, volume, formats produced. Be specific: panel/admin microdata, RCT outcomes, event-study event files, replication intermediate `.rds`/`.dta`/`.parquet`. +2. **Formats & metadata standards** — open/non-proprietary formats where possible (`.csv`/`.parquet` over `.dta`; codebooks; DDI / Dublin Core / domain schema). Name the standard, don't say "appropriate metadata". +3. **Storage & backup** — during the project: encrypted institutional storage, 3-2-1 backup, version control for code (not raw restricted data in git). +4. **Access & sharing** — who can access, when, under what terms. For restricted data this is the **restricted-data access procedure** (see Phase 2). +5. **Preservation & archiving** — a named repository with a persistent identifier (see Phase 3). +6. **Roles & responsibilities** — PI as data steward, data manager, institutional support, succession plan. + +For any required field the input does not supply, write `[CLARIFY: ]` rather than fabricating — same convention as `/preregister`. + +### Phase 2 — Fold in disclosure-avoidance + IRB constraints (only if `sensitive = true`) + +Pull the relevant rules from [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) and weave them into the **access & sharing** and **preservation** sections: + +- **Restricted data → describe the access path, not the data.** State the data provider, the DUA/restricted-use agreement, and how a replicator obtains access (e.g., FSRDC application, openICPSR restricted-access tier, provider application). The data itself is *not* deposited; the *path to it* is. +- **Human-subjects → IRB + minimization.** Reference the IRB protocol number (or `[CLARIFY:]`), the consent terms governing sharing, and the de-identification plan. Shared outputs are de-identified per the consent. +- **Disclosure avoidance for any released microdata or tables.** Name the technique: suppression of small cells (n < threshold), rounding, top-coding, noise infusion, or aggregation. For tabular output, state the minimum cell-count rule. Defer the actual pre-release scan to `/disclosure-check`, and say so in the plan ("released outputs pass `/disclosure-check` before deposit"). + +### Phase 3 — Fold in the computational-environment + replication-package plan + +The DMP should commit to *reproducibility*, not just data deposit: + +- **Environment capture.** State that the computational environment will be captured (R `sessionInfo()` / `renv.lock`, Stata version + `.do` ado dependencies, Python `requirements.txt` / container). Point to `/capture-environment` as the mechanism. AEA Data Editor / DCAS standards expect this. +- **Replication package.** Commit to depositing a replication package (code + non-restricted data + a master run script + README) in a trusted repository. Point to `/replication-package` as the builder. +- **Repository choice** — match the data class: + - Economics / social science → **openICPSR** (AEA's home; DCAS-compliant) or **Harvard Dataverse**. + - Restricted data → openICPSR *restricted-access* tier or the provider's enclave (FSRDC); deposit code + metadata, not the microdata. + - Domain repos → field-specific (e.g., ICPSR proper, GenBank, Zenodo for code) where the funder or community expects them. +- State the **persistent identifier** (DOI) and the **timeline** (e.g., "at publication" or "within 12 months of project end" — NIH expects no later than publication or award end). + +### Phase 4 — Post-flight (skip with `--no-verify`) + +If the draft cites a funder policy or standard by name/number (e.g., "per NIH NOT-OD-21-013", "DCAS v1"), invoke `/verify-claims` via `Task` to confirm the policy citation resolves. Forked `claim-verifier` never sees the draft. Surface any FAIL/PARTIAL. + +### Phase 5 — Output + +Write the draft to `quality_reports/dmp/YYYY-MM-DD__.md` and a funder checklist alongside it. + +``` +✓ DMP draft saved: quality_reports/dmp/.md + Funder: Data class: + Sections: total — complete, with [CLARIFY:] placeholders + Disclosure/IRB folded in: + Repository: PID: + Policy citations verified: // (or "none to verify") + Next: resolve [CLARIFY:] items, then paste into +``` + +The **funder checklist** is a table: each required section → present? → complete / `[CLARIFY:]`, so the user sees at a glance whether the plan will pass the funder's compliance check. + +## Exit behavior + +- **All required sections present, zero `[CLARIFY:]`** → "DMP READY", checklist all green. +- **Any required section unresolved** → "INCOMPLETE — N MUST items unresolved", listed in the checklist. The draft is still written (so the user can fill it in), but not marked ready. +- This skill **does not block** anything — it produces a document. The gate is the funder's, not ours. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — restricted-data / IRB / disclosure-avoidance rules folded in at Phase 2. +- `.claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md` — pre-release disclosure scan the plan commits released outputs to. +- `.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md` — the environment-capture mechanism Phase 3 references. +- `.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md` — the replication-package builder Phase 3 commits to. +- `.claude/skills/grant-proposal/SKILL.md` — calls this skill for the proposal's data-management section. +- [`.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md`](../preregister/SKILL.md) — sibling document-generator; shares the MUST/`[CLARIFY:]` + post-flight conventions. +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — the reproducibility contract the deposited package must satisfy. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Submit the plan.** It writes a Markdown draft; the user pastes it into DMPTool / NIH ASSIST / the Horizon portal. +- **Run the disclosure scan or build the package.** It *commits* the project to `/disclosure-check`, `/capture-environment`, and `/replication-package`, and references them — it does not execute them. +- **Write the IRB protocol.** It references the protocol number and consent terms; the protocol is authored separately. +- **Choose a repository for you when the funder mandates one.** If NIH names a domain repository for your data type, that mandate wins over the defaults in Phase 3 — the skill flags it as `[CLARIFY:]` rather than guessing. diff --git a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1132bbbc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +--- +name: did-event-study +description: Thin wrapper that runs a staggered difference-in-differences / event-study using canonical, maintained packages and surfaces their native diagnostics — it never reimplements an estimator. R via `did::att_gt`+`aggte` (Callaway–Sant'Anna), `fixest::sunab` (Sun–Abraham), and `HonestDiD` (Rambachan–Roth) for parallel-trends sensitivity; Stata via `csdid` / `eventstudyinteract` / `honestdid`. Use when the user says "run a staggered DiD", "event-study", "Callaway Sant'Anna", "Sun Abraham", "group-time ATT", "pre-trends test", "HonestDiD", or "honest parallel trends". +argument-hint: "[panel data path] [--outcome Y --unit id --time t --gvar first_treat] [--control never|notyet]" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Bash"] +effort: high +--- + +# `/did-event-study` — Staggered DiD / Event-Study (thin wrapper) + +Run a staggered-adoption DiD / event-study by **calling a canonical package**, then surface that package's **native diagnostics** verbatim. This is a *proof-of-concept that launders no authority*: every number traces to a maintained estimator, and the skill writes back the exact package calls so the user owns the code. + +**Input:** `$ARGUMENTS` — a panel-data path (`.csv` / `.rds` / `.dta`) plus the column roles (`--outcome`, `--unit`, `--time`, `--gvar` = first-treated period, `0`/`Inf` for never-treated), optional `--covariates`, and the contested `--control` choice (`never` vs `notyet`). + +**Core principle:** ONE estimator family per run, run *correctly*, beats a five-estimator fleet run carelessly. The skill does not hand-roll a TWFE event-study, a fake placebo, or a bespoke aggregation — those are exactly the steps the canonical packages exist to get right. + +## When to use + +- You have **panel/repeated-cross-section data with staggered treatment timing** and want group-time ATTs and an event-study aggregation. +- You want the **native pre-trends test and event-study plot** from `did`/`fixest`, not a reimplementation. +- You want **HonestDiD (Rambachan–Roth) sensitivity** — the breakdown `M` / relative-magnitudes bound for the parallel-trends assumption. +- You're scoping the **never-treated vs not-yet-treated comparison-group** decision and want the contrast staged explicitly (the choice the EXPLAINED disposition in [`audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) was built around). + +## When NOT to use + +- **2×2 (single treatment period, two groups).** A plain `feols(y ~ treat | unit + time)` is the right tool — no staggering, no aggregation needed. +- **You need the finite-sample properties of an estimator** (bias / coverage under a known DGP) — that's [`/simulation-study`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md), not a single empirical run. +- **Continuous / dose treatment, IV-DiD, or non-absorbing treatment.** These need a different canonical package (e.g. `did_multiplegt_dyn`); this skill covers the absorbing-treatment, binary case. + +--- + +## Workflow Phases + +### Phase 0: Pre-flight — pin the design, warn on the contested choice + +Before running anything, produce a **Pre-Flight Report**. The single most consequential — and most contested — decision is the **comparison group**; surface it loudly. + +```markdown +## Pre-Flight Report — DiD / Event-Study + +**Data:** [path] — [N units × T periods, balanced? gaps?] +**Roles:** outcome=[Y], unit=[id], time=[t], cohort/gvar=[first_treat] (never-treated coded as [0|Inf]) +**Covariates:** [list or "none — unconditional parallel trends"] +**Comparison group:** never-treated │ not-yet-treated ← CONTESTED, see warning +**Estimator(s):** Callaway–Sant'Anna (did) │ Sun–Abraham (fixest) │ +HonestDiD +**Anticipation / base period:** [e.g. e = -1 normalized; anticipation = 0] +``` + +> ⚠️ **Comparison-group warning.** Never-treated vs not-yet-treated is a substantive identification choice, not a default. If there are **few or no never-treated units**, not-yet-treated is usually required (and `did` will warn). If treatment effects are dynamic, not-yet-treated controls are themselves treated later — `did` handles this correctly, a naive TWFE does not. **State the choice, do not silently pick one.** This is the canonical [EXPLAINED](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) named alternative: the same paper can report −1.19 (not-yet-treated) and −1.187 (never-treated) and *both* be defensible — record which one the headline uses. + +If outcome/unit/time/gvar cannot be inferred from the data, **stop and ask** before estimating. + +### Phase 1: Run the canonical estimator(s) + +Call the package — do **not** reimplement. Follow [`r-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/r-code-conventions.md) (header, `library()` at top, `set.seed()` once, relative paths) and write outputs to `scripts/R/_outputs/` (or `scripts/stata/_outputs/`). + +**R — Callaway–Sant'Anna (`did`):** +```r +library(did) +att <- att_gt(yname = "Y", tname = "t", idname = "id", gname = "first_treat", + xformla = ~ x1 + x2, # covariates; ~1 for unconditional + control_group = "notyettreated", # or "nevertreated" — the Phase-0 choice + data = panel) +es <- aggte(att, type = "dynamic") # event-study aggregation +grp <- aggte(att, type = "group") # cohort-specific ATTs +saveRDS(list(att = att, es = es, grp = grp), "scripts/R/_outputs/did_main.rds") +``` + +**R — Sun–Abraham (`fixest::sunab`), as a cross-check on the same data:** +```r +library(fixest) +sa <- feols(Y ~ sunab(first_treat, t) | id + t, data = panel, cluster = ~id) +``` + +**Stata equivalents** (mirrors, same estimands): `csdid Y x1 x2, ivar(id) time(t) gvar(first_treat) notyet` → `estat event`; `eventstudyinteract Y rel_*, cohort(first_treat) control_cohort(never) absorb(id t) vce(cluster id)`. + +### Phase 2: Surface the NATIVE diagnostics + +Do not invent diagnostics — print the ones the packages already compute: + +1. **Pre-trends test** — `did`'s universal pre-test `Wpval` (and per-period pre-event estimates from `es`); `fixest`'s pre-period coefficients. Report the p-value *and* the caveat that a passed pre-test is not proof of parallel trends. +2. **Event-study plot** — `ggdid(es)` / `iplot(sa)`. Save to `scripts/R/_outputs/`; pass `bg = "transparent"` for Beamer (per `r-code-conventions.md` §4). +3. **Group-time ATT table** — `summary(att)`: the full `ATT(g,t)` matrix, with the aggregation weights that produce the overall ATT. +4. **HonestDiD breakdown `M`** — Rambachan–Roth sensitivity over the relative-magnitudes (`Mbar`) or smoothness (`M`) restriction: + ```r + library(HonestDiD) + honest <- honest_did(es, type = "relative_magnitude", Mbarvec = seq(0, 2, by = 0.5)) + ``` + Report the **breakdown value** — the `M`/`Mbar` at which the CI first includes zero. A small breakdown means the result is fragile to pre-trend violations. + +### Phase 3: Write the results block + the exact calls + +Write `scripts/R/_outputs/did_event_study_summary.md`: + +```markdown +# DiD / Event-Study Results — [outcome] on [treatment] + +**Estimator:** Callaway–Sant'Anna (did vX.Y.Z) │ comparison group: not-yet-treated +**Overall ATT:** -1.187 (SE 0.42, [95% CI ...]) — aggte(type="dynamic") +**Pre-trends:** universal pre-test p = 0.31 (not rejected; ≠ proof of PT) +**HonestDiD:** CI excludes 0 up to Mbar = 1.0; breakdown Mbar ≈ 1.3 +**Sun–Abraham cross-check:** -1.20 (SE 0.44) — consistent + +## Exact package calls (you own this code) +[paste the att_gt / aggte / sunab / honest_did calls run above] + +## Comparison-group sensitivity (the contested choice) +| Control group | Overall ATT | SE | +|-----------------|-------------|------| +| not-yet-treated | -1.19 | 0.42 | +| never-treated | -1.187 | 0.43 | +``` + +Embed the **literal package calls** so the run is fully reproducible and editable by hand. The user, not the skill, is the author of the specification. + +--- + +## Output / Report format + +- `scripts/R/_outputs/did_main.rds` — the `att_gt` object + both aggregations (re-aggregatable, auditable). +- `scripts/R/_outputs/event_study.{pdf,png}` — the native event-study plot. +- `scripts/R/_outputs/did_event_study_summary.md` — headline ATT, native diagnostics, HonestDiD breakdown, the contested-control sensitivity table, and the exact calls. + +## Exit behavior + +- **Estimation + diagnostics succeed:** exit 0; print the headline ATT, pre-test p-value, and HonestDiD breakdown to the user. +- **Package emits a substantive warning** (e.g. no never-treated units under `nevertreated`; collinear covariates; unbalanced cohorts dropped): surface it verbatim — **do not swallow it** — and pause for the user to confirm the design. +- **Outcome/unit/time/gvar unresolved, or the required package is not installed:** stop and ask before estimating; never fall back to a hand-rolled TWFE substitute. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/simulation-study/SKILL.md`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md) — for the *finite-sample* behavior of these estimators under a known DGP (TWFE-vs-CS bias, coverage); this skill is one empirical run, not a Monte Carlo. +- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — the never-treated vs not-yet-treated contrast is its canonical **EXPLAINED** named alternative; audit the ATT this skill produces against the manuscript. +- [`.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md`](../preregister/SKILL.md) — pin the comparison group, anticipation window, and event-study horizon *before* estimating to avoid specification-searching. +- [`.claude/rules/r-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/r-code-conventions.md) — R script standards (seed, paths, figure theme). +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — tolerance thresholds for matching the ATT against a paper. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Reimplement any estimator.** No bespoke TWFE event-study, no hand-rolled aggregation, no DIY placebo. Every number comes from `did` / `fixest` / `HonestDiD` (or their Stata twins). If you need an estimator these packages don't provide, this is the wrong skill. +- **Choose your comparison group for you.** It stages never-treated vs not-yet-treated and warns; the identification call is yours. +- **Certify parallel trends.** A passed pre-test is necessary-not-sufficient; HonestDiD quantifies fragility but does not *prove* the assumption. +- **Run a five-estimator fleet.** One canonical family per run, run correctly — not a leaderboard of half-checked methods. +- **Handle continuous/dose treatment, non-absorbing treatment, or IV-DiD.** Out of scope (see "When NOT to use"). diff --git a/.claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..47dea033f --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +--- +name: disclosure-check +description: Pre-screen analysis outputs (tables, figures, logs) built on restricted or confidential data for statistical-disclosure-limitation problems before any release. Scans for small cell counts, complementary-suppression gaps, dominance (p-percent / (n,k)), re-identifiable exact counts, PII leakage, and unrounded sensitive statistics; classifies each finding CRITICAL / WARNING / OK and gates on any CRITICAL. Use before depositing or sharing restricted-data results, or when the user says "disclosure check", "SDL scan", "is this output safe to release", "check for small cells", "disclosure avoidance", "pre-screen for the RDC", or "can I export this from the enclave". +argument-hint: "[outputs-dir] [--provider census|irs|irb|generic] [--threshold N] (outputs-dir defaults to scripts/R/_outputs/)" +disable-model-invocation: true +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Bash"] +effort: high +--- + +# `/disclosure-check` — Statistical-Disclosure-Limitation pre-screen + +Scan analysis outputs built on **restricted or confidential data** (Census FSRDC, IRS SOI, administrative registers, linked health records, proprietary firm panels) for the disclosure-avoidance problems that get an export request rejected — *before* it reaches the data provider's official disclosure review. The skill is a **pre-screen, not a substitute** for that review. + +**Core principle:** A single un-suppressed `n=3` cell, an exact count that pins down one firm, or a `p`-percent dominance failure can re-identify a person or establishment. Catch it on your machine, not in the rejection email from the RDC analyst. + +## When to use + +- **Before requesting an export** from a Census FSRDC / secure data enclave / RDC. +- **Before depositing** restricted-data results to openICPSR, a journal, or a co-author outside the enclave. +- **Before sharing any figure, table, or log** derived from confidential microdata. +- **As a release gate.** Pair with a pre-commit / pre-deposit invocation so no restricted-data output ships un-screened. This is the foundation of the data-management plan for any restricted-data project. + +## Inputs + +- `$0` — outputs directory to scan. Defaults to `scripts/R/_outputs/`. Recognised siblings: `scripts/stata/_outputs/`, `scripts/python/_outputs/`, or any export-staging directory (e.g., a `to_review/` folder the analyst stages for the RDC). +- `--provider` — selects which disclosure-rule profile to load (Phase 0). One of `census` / `irs` / `irb` / `generic`. **Providers differ** — thresholds and rules are not interchangeable; default `generic` is deliberately conservative. +- `--threshold N` — override the minimum cell count (default `n<10`). Census FSRDC commonly uses 10 for establishments; IRS and many IRBs differ. Always reconcile with your provider's *written* rules. + +## Workflow + +### Phase 0: Load the provider's disclosure rules + +1. Read [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) for the project's restricted-data handling contract and the rule-profile placeholder. +2. Load the `--provider` profile (a **placeholder config** the forker fills in from their *signed* agreement — Census, IRS, and IRB rules differ and supersede any default here): + - **min cell count** (default `n<10`), + - **dominance rules**: `p`-percent (a cell is unsafe if the largest respondents contribute > `p`% of the total) and `(n,k)` (top `n` units > `k`% of total), + - **rounding** required for sensitive statistics (counts, totals, ratios), + - **top-coding / bottom-coding** thresholds for extreme values, + - **geographic** minimum population for any geocoded statistic. +3. If no signed-rule values are recorded, fall back to the conservative `generic` profile and **flag prominently** in the report that real provider thresholds must be substituted. + +### Phase 1: Scan the outputs directory + +Glob the outputs dir for `.tex`, `.csv`, `.txt`, `.log`, `.smcl`, `.out`, `.md` tables and figure-data files. For each: + +- **Cell counts** — parse table cells / frequency columns; flag any count `0 < n < threshold` that is not already suppressed. +- **Complementary-suppression gaps** — if one cell in a row/column is suppressed but the margin total and the other cells let a reader back it out by subtraction, the suppression is **incomplete**. +- **Dominance** — for any total/mean cell where unit-level contributions are available (or inferable), apply the `p`-percent and `(n,k)` rules. +- **Exact re-identifying counts** — small exact integers (e.g., "4 hospitals", "1 firm", a max/min that is a single observation) that single out a unit. +- **PII leakage** — regex for names, SSNs (`\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}`), exact dates of birth, addresses, exact lat/long or fine geocodes, record IDs that survived into an output. +- **Unrounded sensitive statistics** — exact unrounded counts/totals where the provider requires rounding. + +### Phase 2: Classify each finding — CRITICAL / WARNING / OK + +| Disposition | Meaning | Examples | +|---|---|---| +| **CRITICAL** | Would fail the provider's disclosure review; blocks release. | `n=3` cell un-suppressed; complementary-suppression hole; `p`-percent dominance failure; any PII; an exact count identifying ≤2 units. | +| **WARNING** | Plausibly safe but needs a human judgment call. | Cell at exactly the threshold; unrounded total just over a rounding base; geographic statistic near the min-population floor. | +| **OK** | Within the loaded rules, no action needed. | Counts ≥ threshold and rounded; dominance passes; no PII. | + +When two findings interact (a suppressed cell + a recoverable margin), report them **together** — the gate cares about the joint disclosure risk, not each cell in isolation. Be economics-aware: DiD / event-study cell counts per (cohort × period), IV first-stage subsamples, RCT arm × stratum balance tables, and panel firm-counts are the usual offenders. + +### Phase 3: Suggest remediation + +For each CRITICAL / WARNING, propose the standard SDL fix, in order of preference: + +- **Suppress** the offending cell (and its complement, if a margin allows back-out). +- **Round** counts/totals to the provider's base (e.g., nearest 10 or 15). +- **Top-code / bottom-code** extreme values. +- **Aggregate** — collapse thin categories, coarsen geography, widen bins until every cell clears the threshold. +- **Drop** the statistic if no remediation preserves both safety and meaning. + +Each suggestion names the file, the cell/location, the rule it violates, and the concrete edit — never auto-applies it (the analyst owns the disclosure decision). + +### Phase 4: Gate + +Exit non-zero on any **CRITICAL**. WARNINGs surface but do not block. See Exit behavior. + +## Output / Report format + +Write `quality_reports/disclosure_check_[outputs-dir-slug].md`: + +```markdown +# Disclosure Check: [outputs dir] + +**Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD] +**Provider profile:** census | irs | irb | generic (rules source: confidential-data.md) +**Min cell count:** [N] **Dominance:** p=[p]%, (n,k)=([n],[k]%) **Rounding base:** [b] + +## Summary +| Disposition | Count | +|---|---| +| CRITICAL | M | +| WARNING | W | +| OK | P | +| **Verdict** | **PASS / FAIL** (FAIL iff M > 0) | + +## CRITICAL (blocks release) +| File | Location | Rule violated | Observed | Suggested remediation | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| tab3_by_cohort.tex | row "2008", col "n" | min cell (n<10) | n=4 | suppress cell + suppress complement in margin | + +## WARNING (human judgment) +| File | Location | Concern | Suggested action | +|---|---|---|---| + +## OK +[counts only, or a short list] + +## Next steps +1. Resolve every CRITICAL — suppress / round / top-code / aggregate, then re-run. +2. Review WARNINGs with the agreement's written rules in hand. +3. Re-run until zero CRITICAL, THEN submit to the provider's OFFICIAL disclosure review. +``` + +## Exit behavior + +- **Zero CRITICAL:** exit 0; report printed. (WARNINGs allowed — they are surfaced, not blocking.) +- **Any CRITICAL:** exit 1; summary to stderr. This makes the skill usable as a release / pre-deposit gate. Mirrors [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md)'s gate semantics: WARNING ≠ FAIL, only CRITICAL blocks. +- **No rules loaded (generic fallback):** exit 0 with a **prominent warning** that real provider thresholds were not supplied — the pre-screen ran but at conservative defaults, not the actual agreement. + +## Flags + +- `--provider` `` — Load that data provider's disclosure rules (e.g. `census-fsrdc`, `irs`, `irb`). Default: the generic small-cell ruleset. +- `--threshold` `` — Override the minimum cell-count threshold (default `n<10`); match your data-use agreement's actual rule. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — restricted-data handling contract + the provider-rule profiles this skill loads. +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — for restricted-data papers the replication package ships code + access path, not the microdata; screen every released output first. +- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — numeric paper↔code verification: run it on the *retained* values, this skill on the *released* ones. +- [`.claude/skills/data-analysis/SKILL.md`](../data-analysis/SKILL.md), [`.claude/skills/stata-replication/SKILL.md`](../stata-replication/SKILL.md) — produce the R / Stata / Python outputs this skill screens. +- [AEA Data Editor checklist](https://aeadataeditor.github.io/) and the [DCAS standard](https://datacodestandard.org/) — disclosure + access expectations for restricted-data deposits (openICPSR restricted-access stub). + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **It does not replace the data provider's official disclosure review.** Census/RDC, IRS, and IRB analysts run the authoritative review; this skill **pre-screens** so the official review is more likely to pass on the first pass. A PASS here is not clearance to release. +- **It does not certify your rules are correct.** It applies the thresholds *you load* from your signed agreement; if the loaded `--provider` profile is wrong, the scan is wrong. Reconcile with the written agreement, not a default. +- **It does not move, encrypt, or transmit data,** never exfiltrates microdata from the enclave — it reads only the staged outputs you point it at. +- **It does not catch every disclosure risk.** Differencing across released tables, longitudinal re-identification, and model-based inferential disclosure can evade a per-file scan. A clean run is necessary, not sufficient. diff --git a/.claude/skills/grant-proposal/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/grant-proposal/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..198e51b5b --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/grant-proposal/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +--- +name: grant-proposal +description: Scaffold a research grant proposal (NSF, NIH, ERC, or foundation) by composing existing primitives — pulls identification strategy from an `/interview-me` spec, delegates the data-management plan to `/data-management-plan` and the facilities statement to `/capture-environment`, and emits a funder-requirements checklist. Use when user says "draft a grant", "write a proposal", "NSF proposal", "NIH aims", "ERC application", "foundation grant", "specific aims", or "scaffold a grant proposal". NOT a submission tool — produces a draft the user uploads to the sponsor's portal themselves. +argument-hint: "[--funder nsf|nih|erc|foundation] [--input ] [--out ] [--no-verify]" +disable-model-invocation: true +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Task"] +effort: high +--- + +# /grant-proposal — Research Grant Proposal Scaffolder + +Compose a funder-shaped grant proposal draft from primitives you already have: an `/interview-me` research spec supplies the science, `/data-management-plan` supplies the DMP, `/capture-environment` supplies the facilities/computational statement, and `/lit-review` supplies the prior-work framing. This skill structures and stitches — it does **not** submit anywhere, and it does not invent identification strategy where a spec is absent. + +**Core principle:** A proposal is a *coherence* artifact. Aims, methods, budget, timeline, and broader impacts must agree with each other and with the underlying research spec. The skill's main value-add over a blank template is the Phase 3 coherence pass (aims ↔ methods ↔ budget ↔ timeline). + +## When to use + +- Drafting an NSF / NIH / ERC / foundation proposal from an existing research idea. +- Turning an `/interview-me` spec (or a `/preregister` PAP) into a fundable narrative. +- Assembling the boilerplate-but-required pieces (DMP, facilities, data-sharing) so the human writes only the science. +- During resubmission, re-scaffolding aims after a reviewer "revise and resubmit" round. + +## When NOT to use + +- You need the *science itself* invented — run `/interview-me` first; this skill refuses to fabricate an identification strategy. +- The sponsor is a clinical-trial funder requiring its own protocol template (out of scope; use the sponsor's native forms). +- You want a finished, submittable PDF — this writes Markdown sections + a checklist; final assembly into the sponsor's format is yours. + +## Funder profiles + +Generic across sponsors via placeholder profiles. `--funder` selects the section set + naming; default is `nsf`. + +| Funder | Core sections (named per sponsor) | Page/format signals | +|---|---|---| +| **`nsf`** | Project Summary (Overview/Intellectual Merit/Broader Impacts) · Project Description · Broader Impacts · Data Management & Sharing Plan · Facilities/Equipment · Budget Justification | 15-page Project Description; DMSP required | +| **`nih`** | Specific Aims (1 p.) · Research Strategy (Significance/Innovation/Approach) · Vertebrate/Human Subjects (if any) · Data Management & Sharing · Facilities & Other Resources · Budget Justification | Aims page is load-bearing | +| **`erc`** | Extended Synopsis (B1) · Scientific Proposal (B2: state-of-art, objectives, methodology) · CV + track record · Resources/Budget · Data Management | PI-centric; "high-risk/high-gain" framing | +| **`foundation`** | Project Summary · Statement of Need · Goals & Objectives · Methods/Approach · Evaluation Plan · Budget Justification · Sustainability | Mission-fit framing; lighter methods | + +Economics framing is the primary lens (DiD/event-study, IV, RCT, panel; AEA Data Editor / openICPSR / DCAS data-sharing expectations), but the section scaffold is field-agnostic — a biology or CS forker fills the same slots. + +## Workflow + +### Phase 0 — Detect funder + spec + +1. Resolve `--funder` (or infer from the request wording; default `nsf`). Echo the chosen profile back before drafting. +2. Locate the research spec: `--input `, else the most recent `quality_reports/specs/research_spec_*.md` from `/interview-me`. If none exists, **stop and recommend `/interview-me`** — do not invent the science. +3. From the spec, extract: research question, hypotheses (directional), identification strategy (DiD / IV / RDD / RCT / structural), data sources, sample, expected results, contribution. Record any `paper_type:` field. +4. Scan `quality_reports/` for adjacent artifacts to reuse: a `/lit-review` synthesis (prior work), a `/preregister` PAP (analysis plan), a `passport.yaml` or `/data-analysis` outputs (preliminary results). + +### Phase 1 — Scaffold sections from templates + the spec + +Generate the funder's section set. Map spec content into slots: + +- **Specific Aims / Project Summary** — RQ + 2–3 numbered, directional aims drawn from the spec's hypotheses. +- **Background & Significance** — motivation + prior work; pull citations from the `/lit-review` synthesis if present (do not re-search unless asked). +- **Research Design & Methods** — lift the identification strategy verbatim from the spec (estimand, treatment/control, identifying assumption, robustness: pre-trends, placebo, clustering). Name the estimator concretely (e.g. `fixest::feols`, `did::att_gt`, Stata `csdid`). +- **Preliminary Results** — summarize any existing `/data-analysis` / passport outputs; otherwise mark `[PRELIMINARY RESULTS: none yet — describe planned pilot]`. +- **Timeline & Milestones** — quarter/year table aligned to the aims (every aim gets a milestone). +- **Broader Impacts / Significance** — sponsor-appropriate framing (NSF Broader Impacts vs NIH Significance vs foundation mission-fit). +- **Budget Justification skeleton** — personnel / data acquisition / compute / travel / dissemination line-item stubs, each tied to an aim. + +For every MUST slot the spec did not supply, write `[CLARIFY: ]` — never fabricate. Re-use the MUST / SHOULD / MAY clarity language from [`templates/requirements-spec.md`](../../../templates/requirements-spec.md). + +### Phase 2 — Compose the DMP and computational statements (delegate) + +1. **Data Management (& Sharing) Plan** — invoke [`/data-management-plan`](../data-management-plan/SKILL.md) via `Task` with the funder + data sources from the spec. It returns the DMP section (repository choice — openICPSR / Dataverse / Zenodo, access/retention, FAIR/DCAS alignment). If any data source is sensitive (restricted-use admin data, PII, IRB-restricted), have it honor [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) and describe access via a secure enclave / FSRDC rather than open release. **Do not draft a sharing plan that promises to release confidential data.** +2. **Facilities / Computational-Environment statement** — invoke [`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) via `Task` to produce the compute/software/dependency statement (cluster, R/Stata/Python toolchain, `renv.lock` / `DESCRIPTION` / `requirements.txt` provenance) for the Facilities section. + +If a delegate skill is unavailable, leave a `[DELEGATE: /data-management-plan]` placeholder rather than half-writing its output. + +### Phase 3 — Coherence pass (aims ↔ methods ↔ budget ↔ timeline) + +The differentiating step. Cross-check the assembled draft and report mismatches: + +- **Aims ↔ Methods** — every aim has a named method/estimator; no orphan method serves no aim. +- **Methods ↔ Budget** — each cost line traces to an aim (e.g. an RCT aim implies a participant-incentives line; admin data implies an acquisition/enclave line; a large simulation implies a compute line). +- **Aims ↔ Timeline** — every aim has at least one milestone; no milestone is unattributed. +- **DMP ↔ Methods** — the data named in Methods matches the data described in the DMP; confidential sources are not promised as open. +- **Page/format budget** — flag sections likely to overflow the funder's page limit (NSF 15-page Project Description, NIH 1-page Aims). + +### Phase 4 — Post-flight verification + output + +- **Post-flight (CoVe):** if Background/Significance cites prior literature, run the Post-Flight protocol from [`.claude/rules/post-flight-verification.md`](../../rules/post-flight-verification.md) — spawn `claim-verifier` via `Task` (`context: fork`) on the citations. Surface PASS / PARTIAL / FAIL. Skip on `--no-verify` or zero citations. +- **Write** sections to `--out` (default `quality_reports/grants/YYYY-MM-DD_/`), one Markdown file per section plus `checklist.md`. + +## Output / Report format + +A `proposal_draft.md` (concatenated sections) plus a `checklist.md`: + +```markdown +# Grant Proposal Draft — [Title] +**Funder:** NSF | NIH | ERC | foundation **Date:** YYYY-MM-DD +**Source spec:** quality_reports/specs/research_spec_.md + +## Funder-Requirements Checklist +| Requirement | Status | Source | +|---|---|---| +| Project Summary / Specific Aims | DRAFTED | Phase 1 | +| Research Design & Methods | DRAFTED | spec | +| Data Management & Sharing Plan | DELEGATED | /data-management-plan | +| Facilities / Computational Env | DELEGATED | /capture-environment | +| Budget Justification | SKELETON | Phase 1 | +| Broader Impacts / Significance | DRAFTED | Phase 1 | +| [n] [CLARIFY:] items unresolved | TODO | — | + +## Coherence Report +- Aims ↔ Methods: PASS / [n issues] +- Methods ↔ Budget: PASS / [n issues] +- Aims ↔ Timeline: PASS / [n issues] +- DMP ↔ Methods (confidential-data check): PASS / [n issues] +- Page-budget flags: [sections at risk of overflow] + +## Post-Flight Verification +Claims extracted: N · Verified: N · Outcome: PASS / PARTIAL / FAIL +``` + +## Exit behavior + +- **All MUST slots filled + coherence PASS:** report "DRAFT READY — review [CLARIFY:] items, then assemble in the sponsor's portal." +- **Open [CLARIFY:] / [DELEGATE:] items or coherence issues:** report "INCOMPLETE — N items unresolved" and list them. The skill never blocks like `/audit-reproducibility` (it is a drafting tool, not a gate) — it surfaces, the author resolves. +- **No research spec found:** stop in Phase 0 and recommend `/interview-me`. Nothing is written. + +## Flags + +- `--funder` `` — Select the funder profile that shapes section structure and the requirements checklist. +- `--input` `` — Path to an existing `/interview-me` research spec to seed Aims and Methods (otherwise the skill elicits them). + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md`](../interview-me/SKILL.md) — produces the research spec this skill consumes; run it first if none exists. +- [`.claude/skills/data-management-plan/SKILL.md`](../data-management-plan/SKILL.md) — Phase 2 delegate for the DMP/DMSP section. +- [`.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) — Phase 2 delegate for the facilities/computational statement. +- [`.claude/skills/lit-review/SKILL.md`](../lit-review/SKILL.md) — supplies Background & Significance prior-work framing. +- [`.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md`](../preregister/SKILL.md) — a PAP can seed the analysis plan; preregistration is the forward commitment a funded project then executes. +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — governs how sensitive data sources appear in the DMP and budget. +- [`.claude/rules/post-flight-verification.md`](../../rules/post-flight-verification.md) — Phase 4 citation fact-check. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Submit anywhere.** It writes Markdown + a checklist; you assemble and upload to Research.gov / ASSIST / the ERC portal / the foundation's system. +- **Invent the science.** No spec → no proposal. It will not fabricate an identification strategy, hypotheses, or aims. +- **Write the DMP or facilities statement itself.** Those are delegated to `/data-management-plan` and `/capture-environment`; this skill only stitches their output into the funder's section set. +- **Compute the budget.** It scaffolds line items tied to aims; actual dollar figures, indirect-cost rates, and effort percentages are the PI's and the grants office's job. +- **Guarantee page-limit compliance.** It flags likely overflow; final trimming to the sponsor's exact format is manual. diff --git a/.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f02ce6501 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +--- +name: power-analysis +description: Compute statistical power, required sample size, and minimum detectable effect (MDE) for a study design, then write a registry-ready power section. Handles two-arm RCTs (with clustering / ICC and unequal allocation), multiple-arm corrections, and a simulation-based power option for non-standard designs (DiD/event-study, IV, panel). Use when user says "power analysis", "power calculation", "MDE", "minimum detectable effect", "how big a sample do I need", "is my study powered", "power for an RCT", or when /preregister needs a power section for an experiment. Produces a power/MDE table, power curves, and a methods paragraph to paste into a preregistration. +author: Claude Code Academic Workflow +version: 1.0.0 +argument-hint: "[--mode mde|n|power] [--design rct|cluster|multiarm|sim] [--input ]" +disable-model-invocation: true +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Edit", "Bash", "Task"] +effort: high +--- + +# `/power-analysis` — Power / MDE for study design + +Compute the three interlocking quantities of an ex-ante design calculation — **power**, **required N**, and **minimum detectable effect (MDE)** — and emit a power section the user can paste straight into a preregistration. Analytical for standard designs; simulation-based (reusing the `/simulation-study` harness pattern) for non-standard ones. + +**Core principle:** a power calculation is a *design-time commitment made before the data exist*. Fix any two of {effect size, N, power} and solve for the third; never back out a "power" number from a realised estimate (that is post-hoc power, and it is uninformative — see "What this skill does NOT do"). + +## When to use + +- **Before launching an RCT / field / survey experiment** — to choose N (or clusters) for a target MDE at 80–90% power. +- **Invoked by [`/preregister`](../preregister/SKILL.md) for RCTs** — the AEA RCT Registry and most IRBs require a power/MDE justification; `/preregister`'s `aea-rct` style calls this skill to fill that section. +- **During R&R** — when a referee asks "was this study adequately powered to detect the effect you claim?" +- **Designing a Monte Carlo** — to set `R` and sample sizes before handing off to `/simulation-study`. + +## Inputs + +`$ARGUMENTS` may carry flags; missing pieces are elicited in Phase 0. + +- `--mode mde|n|power` — solve for MDE given N+power, N given MDE+power, or power given N+MDE. Default `mde`. +- `--design rct|cluster|multiarm|sim` — two-arm RCT, clustered RCT (ICC), multiple arms, or simulation-based. Default inferred from the elicited design. +- `--input ` — a spec from [`/interview-me`](../interview-me/SKILL.md) (under `quality_reports/specs/`) to pull the RQ, outcome, and design from. + +## Workflow + +### Phase 0 — Elicit the design + +Gather the design parameters; **ask once** for anything missing rather than fabricating. Required: + +- **Estimand & test:** primary outcome, one- vs two-sided test, `alpha` (default 0.05), and whether the target is a difference in means, a proportion, or a regression coefficient. +- **Two of {effect size, N, power}:** the effect as a raw difference *and* in standardized units (Cohen's d = effect / SD) — record both; `power` default 0.80. +- **Baseline mean and SD** (or baseline proportion for a binary outcome) — needed to translate raw ↔ standardized effects. +- **Allocation:** treated:control ratio (default 1:1; unequal allocation costs power — note it). +- **Clustering:** if randomization is at a group level (village, school, clinic), the **ICC** (ρ), the average cluster size (m), and number of clusters. Compute the design effect `DEFF = 1 + (m − 1)·ρ` and the effective N. +- **Multiplicity:** number of arms / primary outcomes; the correction (Bonferroni, Holm, or none) and whether power is per-comparison or familywise. + +Echo a **Pre-Flight Report** (design, the two fixed quantities, the one being solved for, alpha, power, allocation, ICC/clusters, multiplicity) before computing. If the estimand or the SD source is ambiguous, stop and ask. + +### Phase 1 — Analytical power (standard designs) + +For two-arm RCTs, clustered RCTs, and multi-arm comparisons, compute analytically. Prefer R `pwr` / `WebPower` (or a closed-form `power.t.test` / `power.prop.test`); for clustered designs inflate variance by `DEFF`, or use `pwr` on the effective N. Stata users: `power twomeans` / `power twoproportions` / `power, cluster`; Python: `statsmodels.stats.power`. Emit a short script to `scripts/R/power_.R` (or `.do` / `.py`) so the calc is reproducible, not a one-off console number. + +- **MDE mode:** `MDE = (z_{1−α/2} + z_{1−β}) · SE(effect)`, where `SE` is built from the SD, N, allocation, and `DEFF`. Report MDE in raw and standardized units. +- **N mode:** invert the above for total N (and #clusters when clustered) given the target MDE. +- **Power mode:** given N and a hypothesized effect, return achieved power. +- **Multi-arm:** apply the chosen correction to `alpha` (e.g. `alpha/(K−1)` for Bonferroni vs control) and report per-comparison *and* familywise power. + +Sweep a grid (N or #clusters × effect size) so Phase 3 can draw a power curve and an MDE-vs-N curve. + +### Phase 2 — Simulation-based power (non-standard designs) + +When the design is **not** a clean two-arm comparison — DiD / staggered event-study, IV / 2SLS (weak-instrument-aware), panel with serial correlation, a non-normal or censored outcome, or any estimator with no closed-form SE — switch to simulation. **Reuse the `/simulation-study` harness** exactly (see [`simulation-study`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md) and [`.claude/rules/simulation-conventions.md`](../../rules/simulation-conventions.md)): + +1. **Seeded, parameterized DGP** that embeds the hypothesized effect (and the null DGP for size). `set.seed(YYYYMMDD)` once; L'Ecuyer streams if parallel. +2. **Estimator** = the one you will actually use on the real data (e.g. `fixest::feols` two-way FE, `did::att_gt`, `AER::ivreg`), returning `est, se, ci, p, reject`. +3. **Power = share of reps rejecting H0** at `alpha`; **size = rejection rate under the null DGP** (verify it is near nominal before trusting power). Report each with its **Monte Carlo SE** = `sqrt(p(1−p)/R)`. +4. Sweep N (or #clusters / #periods) to trace the power curve; save the raw per-rep tibble via `saveRDS()` to `scripts/R/_outputs/`. + +A simulated power number without an MCSE, or without a verified size check, is not yet an answer. + +### Phase 3 — Write the power section + +Produce the deliverables under `quality_reports/power/`: + +- **`power_.md`** — a table and a methods paragraph (below). +- **`power_curve_.png`** — power vs N (and/or MDE vs N), with reference lines at the target power and the design's planned N. +- The reproducible script under `scripts/R/` (or `.do` / `.py`). + +```markdown +# Power Analysis: +**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD · **Design:** · **Method:** + +| Quantity | Value | +|---|---| +| alpha (sided) | 0.05 (two-sided) | +| Target power | 0.80 | +| Baseline mean (SD) | () | +| Allocation (T:C) | 1:1 | +| ICC / cluster size / #clusters | <ρ> / / (DEFF = <…>) | +| Total N (analysis sample) | | +| **MDE (raw / standardized)** | **<Δ> / ** | +| Achieved power at planned N | <…> (± MCSE <…> if simulated) | + +## Methods paragraph (paste into preregistration) +> Assuming a baseline outcome mean of (SD ), 1:1 allocation, and a two-sided +> test at α = 0.05, a total sample of [ clusters of , ICC = <ρ>] yields 80% +> power to detect a minimum effect of <Δ> ( SD). [Simulation: under the hypothesized +> DGP,

% of replications rejected H0 (MCSE <…>); size under the null was <…>.] +``` + +### Phase 4 — Handoff + +If invoked by `/preregister`, return the methods paragraph + MDE row for the preregistration's power section. If standalone, print the save paths and remind the user the MDE is a *design commitment* to record before data collection. + +## Exit behavior + +- **Computation succeeds:** exit 0; print the MDE / N / power result, the save paths, and (for simulation mode) the size-check value next to power. +- **Under-identified design (only one of {effect, N, power} supplied) or ambiguous SD source:** halt in Phase 0 with a single specific question — never guess the SD or the ICC. +- **Simulation size check fails** (empirical size far from nominal under the null DGP): report power as **UNRELIABLE** and surface the size value; the estimator/DGP must be fixed before the power number is trustworthy. + +## Flags + +- `--mode` `` — What to solve for: minimum detectable effect, required N, or achieved power. +- `--design` `` — Design family — two-arm RCT, clustered/ICC, multi-arm with corrections, or simulation-based for non-standard designs. +- `--input` `` — Path to an `/interview-me` spec or preregistration draft to read design parameters from. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md`](../preregister/SKILL.md) — invokes this skill to fill the power/MDE section of an `aea-rct` (and OSF) preregistration; this skill returns the methods paragraph. +- [`.claude/skills/simulation-study/SKILL.md`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md) — the Monte Carlo harness Phase 2 reuses (seeded DGP, estimator grid, % rejecting H0). +- [`.claude/rules/simulation-conventions.md`](../../rules/simulation-conventions.md) — the simulation contract (truth from DGP, MCSE, size-under-the-null) that Phase 2 must honor. +- [`.claude/skills/data-analysis/SKILL.md`](../data-analysis/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/stata-replication/SKILL.md`](../stata-replication/SKILL.md) — where the realised analysis (and its actual estimator/SE) lives; the power calc should use the same estimator. +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — when baseline mean/SD/ICC are taken from restricted-access data, disclosure-avoidance limits apply; cite published or pilot moments rather than embedding raw confidential statistics in the (externally-uploaded) preregistration. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Post-hoc / observed power.** It refuses to compute "the power we had to detect our estimate" from a realised result — that is a deterministic function of the p-value and tells you nothing. Power is ex-ante only. +- **Pick your effect size for you.** The MDE is *your* design commitment; the skill computes consequences of an assumed effect (from theory, a pilot, or a meta-analysis), it does not invent a plausible one. +- **Submit to a registry.** Like `/preregister`, it writes a document; the user uploads it. +- **Replace `/simulation-study`.** Phase 2 borrows the harness for a single power question; a full bias/RMSE/coverage study is `/simulation-study`'s job. diff --git a/.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md index a4f9ef4ea..789449acf 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Refuse to mark the document "ready" if any of these fails: - **Hypothesis directionality.** Each hypothesis must contain a direction ("higher than", "increases", "negatively predicts", "no effect" is acceptable as a directional claim under equivalence-testing). Reject "is associated with" without a sign. - **Estimator named.** Analysis plan names a specific estimator (OLS, logit, fixest::feols, lme4::lmer, ATT difference-in-means …) and a primary outcome variable. "Regression" alone is insufficient. -- **Sample plan numeric.** Target N, stopping rule, or power-calc target appear. "As many as possible" is not a sample plan. +- **Sample plan numeric.** Target N, stopping rule, or power-calc target appear. "As many as possible" is not a sample plan. For RCTs and prospective designs, run [`/power-analysis`](../power-analysis/SKILL.md) to produce the MDE / required-N and a ready-to-paste power paragraph for this field. - **Exclusions ex ante.** Outlier and exclusion rules are stated *before* the data is seen ("we will exclude observations with completion time < 1 minute"). Vague "we'll deal with outliers" fails. - **Internal consistency.** If the design is randomised, the unit of randomisation matches the unit of analysis OR the analysis plan addresses clustering. If observational, identification strategy is stated. @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ Include the registry URL: OSF → `osf.io/registries`, AsPredicted → `aspredic - `templates/preregistration-template.md` — the three style templates this skill consumes. - `templates/requirements-spec.md` — MUST/SHOULD/MAY annotation language re-used here. - `.claude/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md` — produces the spec this skill consumes via `--input`. +- `.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md` — supplies the MDE / required-N + power paragraph for the sample-plan field (RCTs). - `.claude/skills/verify-claims/SKILL.md` — Phase 5 invokes this for citation post-flight. - `.claude/references/discipline-cards.md` — field defaults that drive `--style` selection. - `.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md` — preregistration is the *forward* commitment; replication-protocol is the *backward* contract. diff --git a/.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4528de9ca --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,135 @@ +--- +name: replication-package +description: Assemble a submission-ready replication package to the AEA Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS) / openICPSR / Social Science Reproduction Platform expectations — standard replication README, dataset manifest, computational-requirements capture, a Table/Figure → script:line map, and a confidential-data deposit plan. Use when user says "build the replication package", "prepare the openICPSR deposit", "make the AEA data and code package", "DCAS compliance", "assemble the deposit for the journal", or after a paper is accepted and the journal's data editor needs the package. NOT a numeric verifier — it calls /audit-reproducibility to confirm claims reproduce before packaging. +argument-hint: "[manuscript path] [outputs-dir] (outputs-dir defaults to scripts/R/_outputs/)" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Bash", "Task"] +effort: high +--- + +# Replication Package + +Produce the deposit an economist hands a journal at acceptance: a directory tree (`data/`, `code/`, `output/`, `README`) plus a DCAS compliance checklist, built to the [AEA Data and Code Availability Standard](https://datacodestandard.org/), openICPSR deposit expectations, and the [Social Science Reproduction Platform](https://www.socialsciencereproduction.org/) reproduction protocol. This skill **moves the repo from auditing reproducibility to producing the deposit** — `/audit-reproducibility` proves the numbers; this skill packages everything a third party needs to regenerate them from scratch. + +**Core principle:** the package is reproducible by a stranger with the data and the README — no tacit knowledge, no "ask the author" steps. Every table and figure maps to the exact script and line that produces it. + +## When to use + +- **At acceptance.** The journal's data editor (AEA, REStud, JPE, EJ, ...) requests a DCAS-compliant deposit before the paper is typeset. +- **Before an openICPSR / Zenodo / Dataverse upload.** Build the tree and README once, locally, before the web upload. +- **Pre-submission dry run.** Catch the "I never wrote down where Table 3 comes from" gap while it is cheap to fix. +- **Confidential-data papers.** Produce the access-restricted-data note and a runnable-on-restricted-data package even when the data itself cannot be deposited. + +## Inputs + +- `$0` — path to the manuscript (`.tex`, `.qmd`, `.md`, `.pdf`). Required (the source of the Table/Figure inventory). +- `$1` — outputs directory. Defaults to `scripts/R/_outputs/`. Recognised alternatives: `scripts/stata/_outputs/`, `scripts/python/_outputs/`, `_targets/objects/`. + +## Workflow + +### Phase 0: Pre-flight — detect language(s) and outputs + +1. Detect the analysis language(s) by scanning for `scripts/R/*.R` (+ `renv.lock` / `DESCRIPTION`), `scripts/stata/*.do`, `scripts/python/*.py` (+ `requirements.txt` / `environment.yml` / `pyproject.toml`). A project may be **polyglot** — record all detected languages. +2. Locate the outputs directory (`$1`) and the one-command entry point (`00_run_all.R`, `99_run_all.do`, `run.py`, `Makefile`). If none exists, flag it — DCAS requires a single master script. +3. If `quality_reports/passports/.yaml` exists, load it; its `claims:` entries are the authoritative Table/Figure → `source_file:source_line` map for Phase 1. + +### Phase 1: Generate the standard replication README + +Write `replication_package/README.md` (the AEA template, fields below). Leave a `[FILL]` marker on any field you cannot infer — never fabricate a data source or license. + +- **Overview / paper citation** — title, authors, abstract one-liner. +- **Data Availability Statement** — for each dataset: public / restricted / proprietary, and whether it is redistributed in the package. This is the single most-rejected DCAS field; be explicit. +- **Dataset manifest** — a table, one row per file: `filename | description | source (URL/citation) | access (public / DUA / purchase) | license | provided in package? (Y/N)`. +- **Computational requirements** — OS, software + versions (R / Stata / Python), key packages, approximate runtime, RAM, any HPC/cluster need. +- **Step-by-step run instructions** — the single master-script invocation, then the expected outputs. +- **Table/Figure → script:line map** — one row per exhibit: `Exhibit | Program | Line | Output file`. Read from the passport if present; otherwise grep the manuscript for `\input{}` / `\includegraphics{}` and trace each to the producing script. This map is what a reproducer follows; it is the heart of the package. + +### Phase 2: Capture the computational environment + +Generate the dependency lockfile(s) and an environment snapshot for each detected language. Prefer [`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) if available; otherwise produce them directly: + +- **R** — `renv::snapshot()` → `renv.lock`; `sessionInfo()` → `output/sessionInfo.txt`. +- **Python** — `pip freeze` → `requirements.txt` (or export the conda `environment.yml`); record `python --version`. +- **Stata** — `creturn list` / `about` → `output/stata_version.txt`; confirm every `.do` pins `version NN` (per [`stata-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/stata-code-conventions.md)). +- **Container (recommended by DCAS for non-trivial setups)** — scaffold a `Dockerfile` pinning the base image + language version. + +### Phase 3: Confirm claims reproduce before packaging + +Run [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) `$0 $1` (passport-aware if the YAML exists). + +- **Any FAIL** (out of tolerance, no named alternative) → **block**: do not assemble a package around numbers that do not reproduce. Surface the failing claims and stop. +- **EXPLAINED** (out of tolerance with a recorded named alternative) → allowed; carry the note into the README's known-discrepancies section. +- **All PASS / PASS + EXPLAINED** → proceed to Phase 4. + +### Phase 4: Assemble the tree + DCAS checklist + +Create the deposit skeleton (copy/symlink real files where they exist; leave `[FILL]` placeholders otherwise): + +``` +replication_package/ +├── README.md # Phase 1 +├── data/ +│ ├── raw/ # as-obtained (or a pointer + DUA note if restricted) +│ └── analysis/ # constructed analysis files +├── code/ # numbered scripts + master script (00_run_all.* / 99_run_all.do) +└── output/ # tables/, figures/, logs/, sessionInfo.txt, renv.lock / requirements.txt +``` + +Then emit the **DCAS compliance checklist** (`replication_package/DCAS_checklist.md`): Data Availability Statement present · every dataset has source + access + license · master script present and one-command · computational requirements stated · every Table/Figure mapped to program:line · no absolute/machine-specific paths in code · seeds set for any stochastic step · license file (a code license such as BSD/MIT + a data-usage statement). Mark each PASS / FAIL / `[FILL]`. + +### Phase 5: Confidential-data handling + +Per [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md), scan the manifest for restricted, proprietary, or PII-bearing inputs (administrative records, IRS/Census RDC, proprietary panels, linked health data). + +- **Never copy restricted data into `replication_package/data/`.** Replace it with a pointer: the provider, the application/DUA process, the access cost, and the expected wait time. +- Generate `replication_package/data/access-restricted-data.md` — the access-restricted-data note a reproducer follows to obtain the same inputs. +- Confirm the **code still ships** (DCAS requires runnable-on-restricted-data code even when the data cannot be deposited), and that any committed extracts pass disclosure-avoidance (cell suppression / rounding) before they enter `output/`. + +## Output / Report format + +Write `quality_reports/replication_package_[paper-slug].md`: + +```markdown +# Replication Package: [Paper Title] +**Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD] **Languages:** [R / Stata / Python] **Deposit target:** [openICPSR / Zenodo / Dataverse] + +## DCAS checklist +| Item | Status | +|---|---| +| Data Availability Statement | PASS / FAIL / [FILL] | +| Dataset manifest (source · access · license) | ... | +| One-command master script | ... | +| Computational requirements | ... | +| Table/Figure → program:line map | ... | +| No machine-specific paths · seeds set | ... | +| Reproducibility audit (Phase 3) | PASS / EXPLAINED-only / FAIL (blocker) | +| Confidential-data note (if applicable) | ... | + +## Skeleton built at +replication_package/ (tree + README + checklist) + +## Open [FILL] items +[one line per unresolved field] +``` + +## Exit behavior + +- **All checklist items PASS (or PASS + `[FILL]`) and audit PASS/EXPLAINED-only:** exit 0; print the tree location and any `[FILL]` items for the author to complete. +- **Any audit FAIL (Phase 3):** exit 1; package assembly halts. Numbers that do not reproduce do not get deposited. +- **Restricted data detected but no access note generated:** exit 1 with the confidential-data blocker — packaging cannot proceed until Phase 5 runs. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — tolerance contract + passport schema (the upstream verification this skill packages). +- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — the Phase 3 gate; proves claims reproduce. +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — restricted-data deposit rules driving Phase 5. +- [`templates/passport-template.yaml`](../../../templates/passport-template.yaml) — source of the Table/Figure → program:line map when present. +- [`.claude/skills/data-analysis/SKILL.md`](../data-analysis/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/stata-replication/SKILL.md`](../stata-replication/SKILL.md) — the R / Stata pipelines whose outputs this skill packages. +- [`.claude/skills/simulation-study/SKILL.md`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md) — seeded Monte Carlo outputs are packaged the same way (seeds + per-rep raw results belong in `output/`). +- [`.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md`](../preregister/SKILL.md) — for RCTs, the PAP belongs in the deposit alongside the analysis. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Verify the numbers.** That is `/audit-reproducibility` (called in Phase 3). This skill packages a *verified* result; it blocks rather than re-derives on FAIL. +- **Upload to the repository.** It builds the local tree and README; the author performs the openICPSR / Zenodo / Dataverse upload and gets the DOI. Web deposit is deliberately out of scope. +- **Judge the research.** Whether the identification strategy (DiD / event-study, IV, RCT, panel FE) is sound is a `/review-paper` question. A reproducible package can still house a flawed design. +- **De-identify your data.** It flags restricted inputs and refuses to deposit them; it does not run disclosure-avoidance algorithms on raw microdata — that is the author's (and the RDC's) responsibility. diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md index 453e6b15a..fc5d01b88 100644 --- a/CLAUDE.md +++ b/CLAUDE.md @@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ Enforced by `/commit` (halts + asks for override) **and** — once you run `./sc | `/stata-replication [paper-or-data]` | End-to-end Stata pipeline scaffold + execution via `stata-mcp` (mirrors `/data-analysis` for R) | | `/simulation-study [estimator+DGP]` | Reproducible Monte Carlo study: DGP, estimator grid, seeded reps, bias/RMSE/coverage/size/power + Monte Carlo SEs | | `/r-package-check [pkg path]` | R package release gate: `devtools::document()` + tests + `R CMD check --as-cran`, CRAN-policy triage, `r-package-reviewer` pass | +| `/replication-package [paper] [outputs-dir]` | Assemble a submission-ready DCAS / openICPSR replication package (README, dataset manifest, env capture, Table/Figure→script:line map, confidential-data note); calls `/audit-reproducibility` and blocks on FAIL | +| `/capture-environment [project-dir] [--docker]` | Snapshot the computational environment — detect R/Stata/Python, emit renv.lock + sessionInfo / requirements.txt / uv.lock + optional Dockerfile, record seeds, write a paste-ready "Computational requirements" block | +| `/did-event-study [data] [--outcome --unit --time --gvar] [--control never\|notyet]` | Thin wrapper for staggered DiD / event-study via canonical packages (Callaway–Sant'Anna `did`, Sun–Abraham `fixest::sunab`, HonestDiD; Stata `csdid`/`eventstudyinteract`/`honestdid`) — surfaces native pre-trends, event-study plot, group-time ATTs, HonestDiD breakdown M; never reimplements an estimator | +| `/power-analysis [--mode mde\|n\|power] [--design rct\|cluster\|multiarm\|sim]` | Power / required-N / MDE for study design (RCT, clustered/ICC, multi-arm, or simulation-based) + a methods paragraph for `/preregister` | +| `/disclosure-check [outputs-dir] [--provider] [--threshold]` | Pre-screen restricted-data outputs for SDL violations (small cells, dominance, PII, unrounded stats); gates on any CRITICAL | +| `/grant-proposal [--funder nsf\|nih\|erc\|foundation] [--input spec]` | Scaffold a grant proposal (aims/methods/timeline/budget/broader-impacts) from an `/interview-me` spec; delegates DMP to `/data-management-plan` + facilities to `/capture-environment`; runs an aims↔methods↔budget coherence pass and emits a funder-requirements checklist | +| `/data-management-plan [--funder nsf\|nih\|erc\|horizon]` | Draft a funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF/NIH 2023/ERC/Horizon) composing confidential-data + environment-capture primitives | +| `/coauthor-brief [--since ] [--for ]` | Generate a collaborator handoff brief: git delta, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data steps | --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 59bbb066c..350588416 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — ## What's Included

-18 agents, 38 skills, 28 rules, 6 hooks (click to expand) +18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules, 6 hooks (click to expand) ### Agents (`.claude/agents/`) @@ -247,6 +247,14 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — | `/stata-replication` (v1.9.0) | End-to-end Stata pipeline via the `stata-mcp` MCP server (mirrors `/data-analysis` for R-first projects) | | `/simulation-study` (v1.10.0) | Scaffold + run a reproducible Monte Carlo study — parameterized DGP, estimator grid, seeded replications, bias/RMSE/coverage/size/power with Monte Carlo SEs | | `/r-package-check` (v1.10.0) | R package release gate — `devtools::document()` + tests + `R CMD check --as-cran`, triage ERROR/WARNING/NOTE vs CRAN policy, `r-package-reviewer` pass | +| `/replication-package` (v2.0) | Assemble a submission-ready DCAS / openICPSR replication package — standard README, dataset manifest, computational-requirements capture, Table/Figure → script:line map, confidential-data deposit note (blocks on `/audit-reproducibility` FAIL) | +| `/capture-environment` (v2.0) | Snapshot the computational environment for a replication package — renv.lock + sessionInfo.txt (R), requirements.txt / environment.yml / uv.lock (Python), Stata version + ado list, seeds/RNG, optional pinning Dockerfile | +| `/did-event-study` (v2.0) | Thin wrapper for staggered DiD / event-study via canonical packages (Callaway–Sant'Anna `did`, Sun–Abraham `fixest::sunab`, HonestDiD sensitivity; Stata equivalents) — surfaces each package's native diagnostics, never reimplements an estimator | +| `/power-analysis` (v2.0) | Power / required-N / minimum-detectable-effect for study design — two-arm RCT (clustering/ICC, unequal allocation), multi-arm corrections, simulation-based power for non-standard designs; feeds `/preregister` | +| `/disclosure-check` (v2.0) | Statistical-disclosure-limitation pre-screen for restricted/confidential-data outputs (small cells, complementary-suppression gaps, dominance, PII); CRITICAL/WARNING/OK + gate | +| `/grant-proposal` (v2.0) | Scaffold an NSF/NIH/ERC/foundation grant proposal by composing primitives (spec → aims/methods, delegated DMP + facilities, coherence pass + requirements checklist) | +| `/data-management-plan` (v2.0) | Funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF / NIH DMS 2023 / ERC / Horizon Europe) — folds in disclosure-avoidance + IRB constraints and a replication-package/environment plan; outputs a draft + funder checklist | +| `/coauthor-brief` (v2.0) | Collaborator handoff brief — what changed since last brief, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data access steps | ### Research Workflow diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index 88b2405c1..68e31a6bf 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ - + @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@

What's in the template

  • 18 specialized agents — proofreader, slide auditor, pedagogy reviewer, R reviewer, TikZ critic, domain reviewer, adversarial QA pair, translator, verifier, claim-verifier (Chain-of-Verification), the simulated-peer-review trio (editor, domain referee, methods referee), the Monte Carlo sim-reviewer, the CRAN-focused R package-reviewer, the AI-voice humanize-auditor, and the promote-memory council
  • Adversarial critic-fixer loop — two agents that check each other's work across up to 5 rounds — the critic can't fix, the fixer can't approve
  • Quality scoring with mandatory verification — every file scored 0–100; /commit halts below 80 (user can override with an explicit reason); skills that implement the orchestrator pattern verify every output before reporting done
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  • 38 slash commands + 28 context-aware rules — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, and R conventions
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  • 46 slash commands + 29 context-aware rules — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, and R conventions
  • Simulated peer review — /review-paper --peer <journal> runs a full editorial pipeline: editor desk review, two blind referees with deliberately different dispositions (STRUCTURAL / CREDIBILITY / MEASUREMENT / POLICY / THEORY / SKEPTIC), editorial synthesis with FATAL / ADDRESSABLE / TASTE classification. Calibrated to 5 econ journals (AER / QJE / JPE / ECMA / ReStud) plus a template for adding your own field. Adapted from Hugo Sant’Anna’s clo-author with permission.
  • Research workflow skills — /lit-review for literature synthesis, /research-ideation for hypothesis generation, /interview-me to formalize ideas, /review-paper for manuscript review, /data-analysis for end-to-end R analysis
  • Smart hooks — Desktop notifications (macOS/Linux), pre-compaction context snapshots to session logs, progressive context-usage warnings, post-edit verify reminders
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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 38 skills, and 28 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 46 skills, and 29 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 38 skills, 28 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd index 4d187ec13..efd9f230e 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd @@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ Most of the time, you just describe what you want and Claude handles the rest. E ::: {.callout-important} ## The Bottom Line -**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 38 skills, and 28 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. +**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 46 skills, and 29 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. ::: ::: {.callout-note} ## You Don't Need All of This on Day One -This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 38 skills, 28 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. +This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. ::: --- @@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ argument-hint: "[filename without .tex extension]" ::: {.callout-note} ## Built-In Skills -Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template's 38: `/batch` orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), `/simplify` runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and `/debug` helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above. +Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template's 46: `/batch` orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), `/simplify` runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and `/debug` helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above. ::: ## Agents --- Specialized Reviewers {#agents---specialized-reviewers} diff --git a/templates/skill-template.md b/templates/skill-template.md index f3fef5899..e5b944790 100644 --- a/templates/skill-template.md +++ b/templates/skill-template.md @@ -437,4 +437,4 @@ When adapting this template to your domain: - **Purpose:** Starter for domain-specific skills - **Usage:** Copy to `.claude/skills/[name]/SKILL.md`, customize for your field -For existing skills examples, see `.claude/skills/` directory (38 skills for LaTeX, R, Quarto, and research workflows). +For existing skills examples, see `.claude/skills/` directory (46 skills for LaTeX, R, Quarto, and research workflows). From 8750c0dadcbb939200eb836bb865b0ee7ff34daa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:52:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 03/19] feat(v2.0 Phases 5-7): background autonomy, teaching-at-scale, loop-first onboarding + retirements MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Phase 5 — background/scheduled/event-driven autonomy: - claim-reconcile.py (PostToolUse): event-driven — flags stale manuscript claims the moment an analysis script / _outputs changes (hooks 6→7) - references/scheduled-routines.md: nightly reproducibility, weekly lit-delta, monthly memory-promotion, daily inbox triage (Routines, push-on-failure) - scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh: cron-able passport staleness check - /triage-inbox skill: schedulable Gmail/Calendar triage + referee-obligations tracker (human-gated, never auto-sends) Phase 6 — teaching-at-scale (the repo's origin, previously a blind spot): - /syllabus, /teach-from-paper, /respond-to-eval, /scaffold-exercises (problem sets w/ solutions, imported from mattpocock/skills) Phase 7 — loop-first onboarding, output-styles, scaffolder, retirements: - README: "Goal-first, gate-enforced" reframe; fixed the stale "no pre-commit hook" claim; loop-until-dry - output-styles/: academic-writing.md + referee.md (repo shipped zero before) - /new-skill scaffolder (imported from mattpocock write-a-skill) — gate-passing frontmatter first try - RETIRE /prompt + /prompt-only → demoted to .claude/rules/prompt-shaping.md (ambient habit, not a command); prompt-formatting-core re-pointed Net inventory: skills 46→50 (+6 new, −2 retired), rules 29→30, hooks 6→7, agents 18. Count-sync across README/CLAUDE/guide/docs/skill-template; all gates green. --- .claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py | 122 ++++++++++++++++ .claude/output-styles/academic-writing.md | 25 ++++ .claude/output-styles/referee.md | 23 +++ .claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md | 2 +- .claude/references/scheduled-routines.md | 42 ++++++ .claude/rules/prompt-shaping.md | 32 +++++ .claude/settings.json | 10 ++ .claude/skills/new-skill/SKILL.md | 106 ++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/prompt-only/SKILL.md | 81 ----------- .claude/skills/prompt/SKILL.md | 85 ----------- .claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md | 128 +++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/SKILL.md | 140 +++++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/syllabus/SKILL.md | 119 ++++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/teach-from-paper/SKILL.md | 116 +++++++++++++++ .claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md | 120 ++++++++++++++++ CLAUDE.md | 8 +- README.md | 26 +++- docs/index.html | 4 +- docs/workflow-guide.html | 4 +- guide/workflow-guide.html | 8 +- guide/workflow-guide.qmd | 6 +- scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh | 64 +++++++++ templates/skill-template.md | 2 +- 23 files changed, 1086 insertions(+), 187 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py create mode 100644 .claude/output-styles/academic-writing.md create mode 100644 .claude/output-styles/referee.md create mode 100644 .claude/references/scheduled-routines.md create mode 100644 .claude/rules/prompt-shaping.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/new-skill/SKILL.md delete mode 100644 .claude/skills/prompt-only/SKILL.md delete mode 100644 .claude/skills/prompt/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/syllabus/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/teach-from-paper/SKILL.md create mode 100644 .claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md create mode 100755 scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh diff --git a/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py b/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cdd8d084d --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +""" +Numeric-Claim Reconciliation Hook (PostToolUse) + +Event-driven half of the cross-artifact dependency graph: the moment an +analysis script or an `_outputs/` artifact changes, the manuscript's +numeric claims that depend on it may be STALE. Instead of waiting for the +nightly reproducibility Routine, this hook surfaces the staleness +immediately so the author re-runs /audit-reproducibility before relying +on the affected tables. + +Fires on Write/Edit to: + - scripts/**/*.{R,do,py,jl} (analysis code) + - scripts/**/_outputs/** (regenerated outputs) +when a passport (quality_reports/passports/*.yaml) exists. It counts the +passport claims whose `source_file`/`output_file` mentions the changed +file and emits a one-line systemMessage + additionalContext. Throttled to +once per changed file per session (so a burst of edits is one nudge). + +PostToolUse output: exit 0 + JSON {"systemMessage", "hookSpecificOutput": +{"additionalContext"}}. Fail-open: any error → exit 0, silent. + +For external regenerations (a user running Rscript outside Claude), the +broader `FileChanged` event can drive the same logic — see +.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md. +""" + +from __future__ import annotations + +import json +import os +import re +import sys +import time +import hashlib +from pathlib import Path + +WATCH = re.compile(r"(^|/)scripts/.*\.(R|r|do|py|jl)$|(^|/)scripts/.*/_outputs/") +THROTTLE_S = 300 + + +def state_dir() -> Path: + pd = os.environ.get("CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR", "") + h = hashlib.md5(pd.encode()).hexdigest()[:8] if pd else "default" + d = Path.home() / ".claude" / "sessions" / h + d.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) + return d + + +def main() -> int: + try: + data = json.load(sys.stdin) + except (json.JSONDecodeError, EOFError): + return 0 + + ti = data.get("tool_input", {}) or {} + fp = ti.get("file_path", "") or "" + if not fp or not WATCH.search(fp): + return 0 + + project_dir = os.environ.get("CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR", "") or data.get("cwd", "") + if not project_dir: + return 0 + passports = sorted((Path(project_dir) / "quality_reports" / "passports").glob("*.yaml")) + if not passports: + return 0 # no claims tracked → nothing to reconcile + + changed = Path(fp).name + + # Throttle: one nudge per changed file per THROTTLE_S. + st_path = state_dir() / "claim-reconcile-state.json" + try: + st = json.loads(st_path.read_text()) + except Exception: + st = {} + now = time.time() + if now - st.get(changed, 0) < THROTTLE_S: + return 0 + st[changed] = now + try: + st_path.write_text(json.dumps(st)) + except Exception: + pass + + # Count passport claims that reference this file (best-effort text match). + affected = [] + for p in passports: + try: + text = p.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") + except Exception: + continue + hits = sum(1 for ln in text.splitlines() + if ("source_file" in ln or "output_file" in ln) and changed in ln) + if hits: + affected.append((p.name, hits)) + if not affected: + return 0 + + total = sum(h for _, h in affected) + where = ", ".join(f"{name} ({h})" for name, h in affected) + msg = (f"⟳ {changed} changed — {total} passport claim(s) may be STALE [{where}]. " + f"Run /audit-reproducibility before relying on the affected tables.") + json.dump({ + "systemMessage": msg, + "hookSpecificOutput": { + "hookEventName": "PostToolUse", + "additionalContext": ( + f"A tracked analysis input ({changed}) was just modified. " + f"{total} numeric claim(s) recorded in {where} depend on it and are now " + f"potentially stale. Before presenting or committing those numbers, run " + f"/audit-reproducibility to re-verify them against the regenerated outputs." + ), + }, + }, sys.stdout) + return 0 + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + try: + sys.exit(main()) + except Exception: + sys.exit(0) # fail open diff --git a/.claude/output-styles/academic-writing.md b/.claude/output-styles/academic-writing.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6aa103236 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/output-styles/academic-writing.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +name: Academic Writing +description: Precise, publishable academic prose — claims hedged to the evidence, notation defined, no AI-voice tells. For drafting papers, abstracts, and referee responses. +--- + +You are writing for a top field journal. Optimize for a referee's time and a careful reader's trust. + +## Voice +- **Lead with the claim, then support it.** Topic sentence first; evidence after. No throat-clearing ("It is important to note that…", "In today's world…"). +- **Active voice and concrete subjects.** "We estimate" not "It is estimated". Name the agent. +- **Hedge to the evidence, never more, never less.** A causal claim needs an identification argument; a correlation says "associated with". Do not stack hedges ("may potentially suggest") and do not overclaim ("proves"). +- **Short sentences for hard ideas.** If a sentence exceeds ~30 words or two clauses of math, split it. + +## Discipline +- **Define notation at first use**; keep it consistent throughout. +- **Every number carries its units, its uncertainty, and its source** (table/equation). No bare point estimates. +- **One paragraph, one point.** The first sentence is the point; the rest earns it. +- **Cite as you assert.** Attribute each prior result to a specific paper; never "the literature shows" without a citation. + +## Avoid the AI tells (see `/humanize`) +- No boilerplate transitions ("Moreover", "Furthermore", "Additionally" stacked), no tricolons-for-rhythm, no em-dash overuse, no "not only X but also Y" scaffolding, no symmetric paragraph shapes, no sycophantic framing. +- Prefer the plain word. Cut intensifiers ("very", "crucial", "significant" when not statistical). + +## When unsure +Say what you can support and flag what you cannot — "We cannot rule out X" is stronger than a confident wrong claim. Do not fabricate citations, magnitudes, or results; if a number is needed and unknown, write `[CITE]` / `[NUM]` rather than inventing it. diff --git a/.claude/output-styles/referee.md b/.claude/output-styles/referee.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..40281f10a --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/output-styles/referee.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +name: Referee Report +description: Terse, structured, constructive referee voice — fatal-vs-fixable triage, every criticism paired with a concrete ask. For writing or simulating peer review. +--- + +You are a fair but demanding referee at a top journal. Your report decides whether the editor's time was well spent. + +## Structure +1. **One-paragraph summary** of what the paper does and claims — in your own words, so the author knows you read it. +2. **Recommendation** up front: Accept / Minor / Major / Reject, with the single load-bearing reason. +3. **Major concerns** (numbered) — each is a *threat to a conclusion*, not a preference. For every one, state **"What would change my mind: …"** with a specific, achievable ask. +4. **Minor concerns** (numbered) — clarity, notation, missing citations, table formatting. + +## Voice +- **Terse and specific.** Cite the exact section, equation, table, or page. "Table 3" not "the results". +- **Triage ruthlessly.** Separate *fatal* (the claim cannot survive) from *fixable* (addressable in revision) from *taste* (you'd do it differently — say so and move on). +- **Constructive by default.** Every criticism carries a path forward. A criticism with no ask is a complaint. +- **Calibrated, not cruel.** Acknowledge what is genuinely well done. Attack arguments, never authors. + +## Discipline +- **Disagreement is a signal, not a verdict.** If the authors made a defensible alternative choice (a comparison group, a clustering convention, a specification), say so and ask them to *justify* it — do not score it as an error. +- **Do not invent flaws.** If you cannot point to the specific place a problem occurs, you have not found a problem. No vague "the identification seems weak" without naming the threat. +- **Stay in scope.** Review the paper that was written, not the paper you would have written. diff --git a/.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md b/.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md index de86b5d45..553acfc21 100644 --- a/.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md +++ b/.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Prompt-Formatting Core (shared reference) -Used by `/prompt` and `/prompt-only`. Defines the **structured-prompt skeleton** and the **depth-calibration heuristic** that both skills emit. +Applied by the [`prompt-shaping`](../rules/prompt-shaping.md) rule as a standing habit. (The `/prompt` and `/prompt-only` skills that formerly emitted this skeleton were retired in v2.0 — a loop-first workflow shapes every ambiguous request automatically rather than behind a command.) Defines the **structured-prompt skeleton** and the **depth-calibration heuristic**. > Pattern adapted with attribution from Chris Blattman's [`claudeblattman` v2.1](https://github.com/chrisblattman/claudeblattman) (`skills/prompt-references/formatting-core.md`). Blattman-specific elements (tool-routing to ChatGPT / Perplexity / Gemini, the `council` token that dispatches to his `/council` skill) are deliberately omitted — see this file's "What we don't ship" section. diff --git a/.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md b/.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9ca456e9a --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# Scheduled & Background Routines + +The loop-first half of the workflow: recurring scholarly chores that should run *on a schedule* and surface only when they find something — not when you remember to run them. These are **Routines** (cron-scheduled remote agents managed by [`/schedule`](../skills/schedule/SKILL.md)), not committed cron files, so they survive a closed laptop and run on web infrastructure. + +> **Use Routines, not `CronCreate`,** for any away-from-keyboard work — Routines run on managed infra and persist; a local cron dies with the REPL. Each routine below is a *prompt + interval*; set them up once with `/schedule`. + +## The four standing routines + +| Routine | Interval | What it does | Push when | +|---|---|---|---| +| **Reproducibility drift** | nightly | Re-run `/audit-reproducibility` against the passport; diff stale claims | any FAIL (not EXPLAINED) | +| **Literature delta** | weekly | `/lit-review` sweep on your saved topics; diff against last week | new directly-relevant work | +| **Memory promotion** | monthly | `/promote-memory` — the five-critic council reviews `[LEARN]` candidates | items graduate to MEMORY.md | +| **Inbox triage** | daily / weekdays | `/triage-inbox` — referee requests, R&R deadlines, co-author asks | action proposed (always human-gated) | + +**Push-on-failure, silence-on-success.** A nightly job that emails "all good" every day trains you to ignore it. These notify only on a real finding; a quiet run leaves no trace but a log line. + +## Event-driven, not just scheduled + +The nightly reproducibility job is the *backstop*. The *immediate* signal is the [`claim-reconcile`](../hooks/claim-reconcile.py) PostToolUse hook: the moment an analysis script or `_outputs/` artifact changes, it flags the manuscript claims that depend on it as potentially stale and points you at `/audit-reproducibility` — so you catch drift during analysis, not the next morning. For *external* regenerations (you ran `Rscript` outside Claude), the harness `FileChanged` hook event can drive the same check; wire it in `.claude/settings.json` if your workflow regenerates outputs outside the tool layer. + +## Setting one up + +```text +/schedule create "nightly-repro" --cron "0 6 * * *" \ + --prompt "Run /audit-reproducibility against the current passport. If any claim FAILs (not EXPLAINED), summarize which tables are affected and push a notification; otherwise exit quietly." +``` + +`scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh` is a thin local equivalent for users who prefer a machine cron over a Routine (note: a local cron does not survive a closed laptop — prefer `/schedule`). + +## Guardrails for unattended runs + +- **Never point an unattended loop at a submission portal, shared/restricted data, or a co-author's inbox without a human gate.** Routines *propose*; a human *sends*. (`/triage-inbox` never auto-sends; the [`git-guardrails`](../hooks/git-guardrails.py) hook still blocks destructive git even in a routine.) +- **Bound the cost.** A nightly full-manuscript re-audit is fine; a nightly 7× `/seven-pass-review` is not — cost-pilot first. +- **MCP may be absent in headless/cron runs** (interactively-authenticated servers like Gmail). Routines that need them must degrade gracefully. + +## Cross-references + +- [`/schedule`](../skills/schedule/SKILL.md) — create/list/run routines. +- [`.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py`](../hooks/claim-reconcile.py) — the event-driven reconciliation hook. +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../rules/replication-protocol.md) — what the reproducibility routine checks. +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../rules/confidential-data.md) — why unattended runs stay human-gated near restricted data. diff --git a/.claude/rules/prompt-shaping.md b/.claude/rules/prompt-shaping.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..256d0854f --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/rules/prompt-shaping.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# Prompt Shaping (a standing habit, not a skill) + +**When a request arrives informal, dictated, or ambiguous, shape it before you act on it — silently, in your head, every time.** This used to be a `/prompt` skill you had to invoke. In a loop-first workflow that ceremony is backwards: you should *always* be resolving a fuzzy ask into a clear one, not only when asked to. So it is a habit now, not a surface. + +## The shape + +Before executing a non-trivial informal request, resolve these five things (the sixth, the bookend, is for the *output*): + +1. **Role** — whose expertise answers this? (econometrician, referee, instructor, data engineer) +2. **Task** — the single concrete deliverable, stated as a verb + object. +3. **Context** — which files, datasets, prior decisions, and constraints bear on it. +4. **Constraints** — what must hold (journal style, tolerance, reproducibility, no hardcoded paths). +5. **Output format** — exactly what to return (a report? a diff? a table? a plan?). +6. **Bookend** — restate the goal at the end and confirm it was met. + +Full elaboration and examples: [`.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md`](../references/prompt-formatting-core.md). + +## How to apply it + +- **Mostly silent.** Resolve the shape and proceed; do not narrate a six-section preamble back to the user. The point is a better answer, not a visible form. +- **Surface only the genuine ambiguity.** If a *decision* is the user's to make (which journal? which estimator? overwrite or append?), ask it — briefly, via `AskUserQuestion` — instead of guessing. Everything else, infer and state your assumption in one line. +- **For multi-turn project specification** (a fuzzy research idea → a full spec), that is still a real skill: use [`/interview-me`](../skills/interview-me/SKILL.md). Prompt-shaping is the single-shot habit; `/interview-me` is the conversation. + +## Why this replaced `/prompt` and `/prompt-only` (v2.0) + +The `/prompt` skills reformatted an informal ask into a six-section prompt — useful in 2023 when prompt-craft was the lever. In a goal-first, verification-gated workflow the lever is the *goal and the gates*, not the wording. Shaping is now ambient (this rule), and the reusable-artifact use case (`/prompt-only`) is served by saving a spec via `/interview-me` or a plan in `quality_reports/plans/`. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md`](../references/prompt-formatting-core.md) — the six-section elaboration. +- [`.claude/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md`](../skills/interview-me/SKILL.md) — multi-turn specification (the surviving, heavier sibling). +- [`.claude/rules/plan-first-workflow.md`](plan-first-workflow.md) — for non-trivial tasks, shaping feeds the plan. diff --git a/.claude/settings.json b/.claude/settings.json index b68b63dcb..97de67b41 100644 --- a/.claude/settings.json +++ b/.claude/settings.json @@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ "timeout": 5 } ] + }, + { + "matcher": "Write|Edit|MultiEdit", + "hooks": [ + { + "type": "command", + "command": "python3 \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py", + "timeout": 5 + } + ] } ], "Stop": [ diff --git a/.claude/skills/new-skill/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/new-skill/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..da5926d54 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/new-skill/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +--- +name: new-skill +description: Scaffold a new skill that follows this repo's conventions — interviews for purpose, trigger phrases, and tool needs, then writes `.claude/skills//SKILL.md` from the skill template with frontmatter and body that pass the integrity gates on first try. Use when user says "write a skill", "scaffold a skill", "create a new skill", "I keep doing X, make it a skill", "new slash command", or "turn this workflow into a skill". NOT for capturing a one-off session discovery — that is `/learn`. +argument-hint: "[skill-name (kebab-case)] [--from-learn] [--dry-run]" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Glob", "Grep", "Bash"] +disable-model-invocation: true +effort: medium +--- + +# /new-skill — Author a Convention-Compliant Skill + +Scaffold a new skill the way this template's gold-standard skills are written: a **deep module behind a simple interface** (Ousterhout, *A Philosophy of Software Design* — "deep modules": a small surface that hides substantial implementation). The user supplies a fuzzy intent; this skill interviews it into a tight spec, then writes `.claude/skills//SKILL.md` with frontmatter and body that are mutually consistent — so `check-skill-integrity.py` and `check-surface-sync.sh` pass without a second pass. + +Adapted from the *write-a-skill* pattern in [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills), reshaped to this repo's frontmatter, section, and gate conventions. + +## When to use + +- You keep re-explaining the same 3+ step workflow to Claude and want it captured as a reusable slash command. +- You need a domain-specific check or output format (citation style, replication gate, a new review lens). +- You want a new skill that is consistent with the 40+ siblings in `.claude/skills/` — same sections, same cross-reference style, same gate-passing frontmatter. + +**Use `/learn` instead** when you just discovered something non-obvious *this session* and want it preserved — `/learn` captures a discovery; `/new-skill` deliberately designs an interface. With `--from-learn`, this skill upgrades a `/learn`-shaped stub into a full convention-compliant skill. + +## Phases + +### Phase 0 — Resolve the name and check for collisions + +1. Take the kebab-case name from `$0` (or ask). Reject non-kebab-case, names that collide with an existing `.claude/skills//`, or names that shadow a built-in (`commit`, `learn`, …) — `ls .claude/skills/` and stop if taken. +2. Read [`templates/skill-template.md`](../../../templates/skill-template.md) for the canonical structure and the frontmatter-field reference. +3. Skim 2-3 sibling skills near the intended domain (e.g. `Glob .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md`, then `Read` the closest matches) so the new skill borrows real conventions, not invented ones. + +### Phase 1 — Interview (collect everything *before* writing) + +A skill cannot stop to ask mid-write, so gather all interactivity up front (the [orchestrator-protocol.md](../../rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) RUN_CONFIG discipline). Ask, in one batch: + +1. **Purpose** — one sentence: what does it accomplish and why does it exist? +2. **Trigger phrases** — the 4-7 quoted phrases a user would actually say. These become the `description`'s "Use when…" clause and are what makes the skill auto-discoverable. +3. **Inputs / arguments** — positional args and any **flags** (each must become a documented `--token`). +4. **Tools** — does the body Read? Write? Grep/Glob? run `Bash`? fan out to a subagent (the `Task` tool)? hit the web via `WebSearch`/`WebFetch`? Only declare what it actually uses. +5. **Output** — a written file (where?), a chat report, or an in-place edit? Should it be read-only? +6. **Scope boundary** — the one or two things it explicitly does NOT do (and which sibling owns those). + +Echo a one-paragraph **design brief** back for confirmation before writing. + +### Phase 2 — Write the SKILL.md (deep module, simple interface) + +Write `.claude/skills//SKILL.md` from the template, with these gold-standard sections: + +- Frontmatter: `name`, `description` (third person, with the quoted trigger phrases), `argument-hint`, `allowed-tools`, `effort`. Add `disable-model-invocation: true` if it writes a persistent, load-bearing file (template's "when to disable" rule). +- Body sections: **When to use**, numbered **Phases** (or Steps), an **Output / report format**, **Exit behavior**, **Cross-references** (to real sibling files), **What this skill does NOT do**, and a **## Flags** section if any flags are advertised. +- Keep the *interface* small (a few args) and the *implementation* deep (the phases carry the weight) — resist exposing a knob for every internal choice. + +### Phase 3 — Enforce parity so the gates pass first try + +`check-skill-integrity.py` enforces two parities this phase must satisfy (`.claude/scripts/` hosts the gate runners; `scripts/check-skill-integrity.py` is the checker): + +- **Flag parity (both directions).** Every flag in `argument-hint` MUST appear in the body as a bare-backticked token, and every flag documented in the body MUST appear in `argument-hint`. So `--from-learn` and `--dry-run` are listed in the hint *and* described under `## Flags`. A stale hint flag fails the gate as surely as a missing one. +- **allowed-tools parity.** The body may only invoke tools listed in `allowed-tools`. If a phase fans out to a subagent (the `Task` tool), that tool must be in the list; if it never does, do not list it. This skill lists exactly `Read, Write, Glob, Grep, Bash` — the tools its phases use, and no subagent fan-out. +- **Anchor resolution.** Internal `[text](path#anchor)` links must resolve — only link to headings that exist. + +Run `python3 scripts/check-skill-integrity.py --verbose` and fix any P0/P1 before declaring done. + +### Phase 4 — Remind: register the surface (table-row gate) + +The skill is NOT discoverable to a reader until it is listed. `check-surface-sync.sh` runs a **table-row gate**: the `` tables in `README.md` and `CLAUDE.md` must have exactly one data row per skill on disk. Adding a skill without a row fails the gate. + +REMIND the user to: + +1. Add a row to the **CLAUDE.md** "Skills Quick Reference" table: `` | `/ [args]` | | ``. +2. Add a row to the **README.md** skills table: `` | `/` | | ``. +3. Run `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` and `python3 scripts/check-skill-integrity.py` — both must exit 0. + +Print the two ready-to-paste rows so the user can drop them in. + +## Output / report format + +- A new file at `.claude/skills//SKILL.md`. +- A chat summary: the resolved name, the design brief, the gate results (integrity + a reminder that surface-sync still needs the two table rows), and the two paste-ready table rows. +- With `--dry-run`: emit the proposed SKILL.md to chat only and write nothing. + +## Exit behavior + +- **Skill written, gates green:** exit 0 with the path, the two table rows, and the explicit "now add those rows + run the two checks" reminder. +- **Name collision or non-kebab-case:** stop in Phase 0 with the conflict named; write nothing. +- **`check-skill-integrity.py` reports P0/P1:** fix in-place and re-run before returning; never hand back a skill that fails its own gate. +- **`--dry-run`:** print the draft, write nothing, exit 0. + +## Flags + +- `--from-learn` — Seed the interview from an existing `/learn`-style stub (or the current session's discovery) and upgrade it into a full convention-compliant skill rather than starting blank. +- `--dry-run` — Produce the SKILL.md content in chat for review without writing it to disk or touching any surface table. + +## Cross-references + +- [`templates/skill-template.md`](../../../templates/skill-template.md) — the canonical structure, frontmatter-field reference, and the "when to set `disable-model-invocation`" rule this skill follows. +- [`.claude/skills/learn/SKILL.md`](../learn/SKILL.md) — capture a session discovery (the lighter sibling); `--from-learn` upgrades its output. +- [`.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md`](../coauthor-brief/SKILL.md) — a gold-standard skill to imitate (interview → write → flags → exit-behavior shape). +- [`.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md`](../../rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) — why the interview collects all interactivity *before* writing. +- `.claude/scripts/` and `scripts/check-skill-integrity.py` / `scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` — the gates this skill is built to pass on the first try. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Capture a session discovery** — that is [`/learn`](../learn/SKILL.md). This skill designs an interface; `/learn` records a finding. +- **Edit the README / CLAUDE.md surface tables for you.** It *prints* the two rows and reminds you; registering them (and re-running `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh`) is a deliberate human step so the surface gate is never silently satisfied. +- **Write agents, rules, or hooks.** It scaffolds a skill only; an agent goes in `.claude/agents/`, a rule in `.claude/rules/`. +- **Commit anything.** Branch / PR / merge is [`/commit`](../commit/SKILL.md)'s job. diff --git a/.claude/skills/prompt-only/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/prompt-only/SKILL.md deleted file mode 100644 index 96f75d8d3..000000000 --- a/.claude/skills/prompt-only/SKILL.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,81 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: prompt-only -description: Reformat an informal or dictated request into a structured prompt (Role / Task / Context / Constraints / Output format / Bookend) and emit it as a reusable artifact — does NOT execute. Companion to `/prompt`. Use when user says "format this prompt", "give me a clean version of this ask", "save this prompt for later", "I want a reusable prompt", or wants a prompt to use elsewhere (different model, different conversation, recurring task). -author: Claude Code Academic Workflow -version: 1.0.0 -argument-hint: "[informal-text-or-pointer-to-text] [depth:light|standard|deep] [--save path]" -allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Glob"] ---- - - - -# `/prompt-only` — format input into a structured prompt without executing - -Same six-section skeleton as [`/prompt`](../prompt/SKILL.md), but **does not execute**. Returns the formatted prompt as a reusable artifact. - -## When to use - -- You want a prompt you'll run later — in a different conversation, against a different model, or as the basis for a recurring task. -- You're drafting a prompt template (e.g., for a future skill, a co-author, a teaching exercise). -- The execution itself should happen elsewhere (a long batch, a different tool, an offline workflow). - -## When NOT to use - -- You want the formatted prompt run immediately. Use [`/prompt`](../prompt/SKILL.md). -- You want a research project formalised. Use [`/interview-me`](../interview-me/SKILL.md). - -## How it works - -### Step 1: Read the input - -`$ARGUMENTS` is the informal text or a pointer to a file. Strip a trailing `depth:` token and `--save` if present. - -### Step 2: Calibrate depth - -Same heuristic as `/prompt` (see [`.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md`](../../references/prompt-formatting-core.md)): - -- Light: < 40 words, no domain jargon, "quick" / "small". -- Standard: 40–200 words, or 1+ domain-specific terms. -- Deep: > 200 words, or specific paper/dataset/submission mentioned, or "thorough" / "for submission". - -User override honoured via `depth:light|standard|deep`. - -### Step 3: Emit the formatted prompt - -Use the six-section skeleton from [`.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md`](../../references/prompt-formatting-core.md): - -- Light → Role + Task + Output format + Bookend. -- Standard → All six + Assumptions block. -- Deep → All six + Assumptions + Investigation pre-step. - -Output the formatted prompt **in a fenced code block** so the user can copy it cleanly. - -### Step 4 (optional): Save - -If `--save ` was supplied, write the formatted prompt to that path. If the path is a directory, default the filename to `quality_reports/prompts/YYYY-MM-DD_.md`. The slug is derived from the first ~8 words of the Task section. - -### Step 5: Return - -Standard output: - -- The formatted prompt in a code block. -- If saved: a one-line "saved to " confirmation. - -**No execution.** That's the whole point. - -## Boundary - -`/prompt-only` is for **reusable prompt artifacts**. It does not produce the output of the prompt — that's `/prompt`'s job (single-run) or your job (when you run the saved prompt elsewhere). - -## Anti-pattern - -Do not use `/prompt-only` when you want immediate execution. The friction of "format then run separately" is wasteful in interactive contexts. Reach for `/prompt` instead. - -## Output - -- The formatted prompt (fenced code block). -- Optionally: "saved to " confirmation. -- No execution result. diff --git a/.claude/skills/prompt/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/prompt/SKILL.md deleted file mode 100644 index d78bd6ac4..000000000 --- a/.claude/skills/prompt/SKILL.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,85 +0,0 @@ ---- -name: prompt -description: Reformat an informal or dictated request into a structured prompt (Role / Task / Context / Constraints / Output format / Bookend) at Light / Standard / Deep depth, then execute it immediately. Use when user has a conversational ask that would benefit from being made specific before Claude runs it, or says "prompt", "structure this", "format this ask", "reshape this request", "make this rigorous". Single-shot input shaping — distinct from `/interview-me` (multi-turn project specification). -author: Claude Code Academic Workflow -version: 1.0.0 -argument-hint: "[informal-text-or-pointer-to-text] [depth:light|standard|deep]" -allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Glob", "Grep", "Task", "WebSearch", "WebFetch"] ---- - - - -# `/prompt` — format informal input into a structured prompt, then execute - -Take an informal or dictated request, reformat it into a structured six-section prompt (Role / Task / Context / Constraints / Output format / Bookend) at the appropriate depth, **show the formatted prompt to the user**, and execute it. - -## When to use - -- The user dictates a long, meandering ask and wants a clean run. -- The request mentions specific domain terminology and would benefit from explicit Constraints + Output-format sections before execution. -- The user has tried an unformatted run and got a generic answer; reformatting before re-running is cheaper than iterating in dialogue. - -## When NOT to use - -- The request is already a clean, specific ask. Skip the formatter; run the request directly. -- The request is for a multi-turn project specification (hypotheses, identification strategy, data needs). Use [`/interview-me`](../interview-me/SKILL.md) instead. -- The request is for ad-hoc fact-checking. Use [`/verify-claims`](../verify-claims/SKILL.md). -- The request is a side question that shouldn't enter conversation history. Use the built-in `/btw` instead. - -## How it works - -### Step 1: Read the input - -`$ARGUMENTS` is either the informal text itself or a pointer to a file containing it (`.md`, `.txt`, `.qmd`). If it's a file, read it. Strip a trailing `depth:light|standard|deep` token if present and record the override. - -### Step 2: Calibrate depth - -Default heuristic (from [`.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md`](../../references/prompt-formatting-core.md)): - -- **Light** — input < 40 words, no domain-specific terminology, or explicit "quick" / "small". -- **Standard** — input 40–200 words, OR contains 1+ domain-specific terms (econometrics / political science / methods jargon). -- **Deep** — input > 200 words, OR mentions a specific paper / dataset / submission target, OR says "thorough" / "detailed" / "for submission". - -User override (`depth:light|standard|deep`) is honoured. - -### Step 3: Emit the formatted prompt - -Use the structured-prompt skeleton from [`.claude/references/prompt-formatting-core.md`](../../references/prompt-formatting-core.md): - -- **Light:** Role + Task + Output format + Bookend. -- **Standard:** All six sections + Assumptions/Rationale block (2–4 bullets). -- **Deep:** All six sections + Assumptions + Investigation pre-step (one sentence describing what Claude should research/read/verify before producing the output). - -**Always show the formatted prompt to the user before executing.** Use a fenced code block. The user sees what you reshaped their ask into and can correct an inferred assumption with one message. - -### Step 4: Execute the formatted prompt - -Immediately after emitting the formatted prompt, **execute it** — run the request as if the user had typed the formatted version. Use the appropriate tools (Read, Grep, WebFetch, etc.) per the formatted prompt's Constraints. - -If the formatted Bookend asked a clarifying question and the answer would change the output, surface that question first and wait for the answer. - -### Step 5: Return the output - -Standard prose, table, or code output per the formatted prompt's Output-format section. - -## Boundary with `/interview-me` - -`/prompt` is **input shaping** (single-shot). `/interview-me` is **project specification** (multi-turn Socratic). They don't compete — use `/prompt` when you want a well-formed ask; use `/interview-me` when you want a well-formed research project. - -## Companion: `/prompt-only` - -[`/prompt-only`](../prompt-only/SKILL.md) is the same skill **without** Step 4 — it emits the formatted prompt as a reusable artifact and stops. Use it when you want a prompt you'll run later (e.g., in a different conversation, against a different model, or as the basis for a recurring task). - -## Anti-pattern - -Do not run `/prompt` on a request that is already specific. If the user has already typed a six-section prompt manually, reformatting it via `/prompt` adds friction without value. - -## Output - -- The formatted prompt (visible in the conversation). -- The execution result (the answer to the formatted prompt's Task). -- Optionally: a one-sentence note if an Assumptions item turned out to be wrong during execution, so the user can correct for the next run. diff --git a/.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..736fd2dd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +--- +name: respond-to-eval +description: Turn student course evaluations (free-text + numeric) into an actionable teaching-improvement plan — the teaching analogue of /respond-to-referees. Clusters comments into themes, separates signal from noise, classifies each theme Keep / Change / Investigate / Out-of-scope, and drafts concrete changes mapped to the syllabus and slide decks. Use when user says "respond to my evals", "what do these course evaluations tell me", "turn my teaching feedback into a plan", or after a semester's evals arrive. +argument-hint: "[eval-file(s)] [prior-plan-path] [--min-mentions N] [--no-verify]" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash", "Task"] +effort: high +--- + +# Respond to Evaluations + +Convert a semester's course evaluations into a defensible teaching-improvement plan. Cluster free-text comments into themes, weight each theme by how many independent students raised it, classify what to do about it, and draft specific changes pointed at the syllabus and deck — so next semester's revision is a checklist, not a vibe. + +**Posture (echoes `/respond-to-referees`):** one angry comment is not a trend, and a comment you disagree with is a signal to *investigate*, not a license to ignore or to auto-act. A single student's frustration may be the only one willing to say what twenty felt — frequency weights the theme, it does not gate it. Ground truth here is a process: the plan records *why* a theme was kept or changed, so the reasoning survives to the next round. + +## When to use + +- End of term, when numeric scores + open-text comments land and you want a revision plan, not a mood. +- Assembling a teaching dossier / tenure file where you must *show* you acted on feedback. +- Mid-stream (early-semester feedback) to course-correct before the term ends. + +Not for: writing the syllabus from scratch (compose with `/create-lecture` and a course outline), or reviewing one deck's pedagogy (use `/pedagogy-review`). + +## Inputs + +- `$0` — the evaluation file(s): a CSV/TSV export, `.txt`/`.md` of pasted comments, or a `.pdf`/`.docx` report. +- `$1` (optional) — the **prior** improvement plan, so this round is a diff (did last term's changes land?). + +| Format | How to read | +| --- | --- | +| `.csv`, `.tsv`, `.txt`, `.md` | `Read` directly; for CSV, note which column is numeric vs free-text. | +| `.pdf` | `TMP=$(mktemp -t evals).txt && pdftotext "$0" "$TMP"` (poppler). Read/grep `"$TMP"`. | +| `.docx` | `TMP=$(mktemp -t evals).txt && pandoc "$0" -t plain -o "$TMP"`. | + +If extraction fails or a tool is missing, ask for a plain-text export and stop. + +## Phases + +### Phase 0: Load evals + prior plan (Pre-Flight) + +Read the eval file(s) and the prior plan (if given). Produce a short Pre-Flight block before clustering: + +```markdown +## Pre-Flight Report +**Evals loaded:** N responses (M with free-text), instrument: [name/term] +**Numeric items:** [list each scale item + mean, and the institution/department mean if present] +**Prior plan:** [path, or "none — first round"] — changes promised last term: [bullet list] +**Course artifacts in scope:** [syllabus path] · [deck(s) under Slides/ or Quarto/] +``` + +Numbers anchor the read but do not override text: a 4.2/5 with ten "I was lost by week 6" comments is a problem the mean is hiding. + +### Phase 1: Theme-cluster + weight by frequency + +1. Split free-text into atomic comments (one student may raise several themes; one comment may belong to several themes). +2. Cluster into themes (e.g., *pacing*, *problem-set difficulty*, *grading clarity*, *real-world relevance*, *office hours*, *prerequisite gaps*). Name each theme in the instructor's words, not the student's. +3. For each theme record: **mention count** (distinct students), **representative verbatim quote** (~25 words, anonymized — strip names/identifying detail), **valence** (positive / negative / mixed), and **numeric corroboration** (which scale item, if any, moves with it). +4. **Signal vs noise:** a theme with `< --min-mentions` (default 2) distinct students is tagged **low-frequency**, not dropped — it carries to Phase 2 for a Keep/Investigate call. Frequency weights; it never silences. + +### Phase 2: Classify + propose changes + +Assign each theme exactly one label (the teaching analogue of `/respond-to-referees`' coverage matrix): + +| Label | Meaning | Drives | +| --- | --- | --- | +| **Keep** | Working well; protect it from collateral damage when you change other things. | A "do not break" note. | +| **Change** | Clear, agreed problem with a concrete fix you can name. | A specific syllabus/deck edit. | +| **Investigate** | Real signal but root cause unclear, or you disagree with the proposed remedy — gather evidence (a mid-term pulse poll, a look at the grade distribution, peer observation) before acting. | An investigation step, not an edit. | +| **Out-of-scope** | Outside your control (room, time slot, required textbook, prerequisite course) or contrary to a deliberate pedagogical choice you stand behind. | A documented rationale, not a change. | + +For each **Change**, write a concrete revision mapped to a target: `syllabus §X` / `Slides/LectureNN.tex slide K` / a new worked example / an assessment reweighting — the same point-to-the-location discipline `/respond-to-referees` uses for "we added X on page Y". For **Investigate**, name the evidence you'll collect and the decision rule. For **Out-of-scope**, write the one-sentence rationale you'd stand behind in a dossier. + +Disagreement is explicit and reasoned: "Students asked to drop proofs; retained because the course's stated objective is derivation fluency — added two scaffolded worked examples (LectureNN slide K) to ease the on-ramp instead" is a Keep-with-mitigation, not an Out-of-scope dismissal. + +### Phase 3: Save the improvement plan + +Write the plan to `quality_reports/teaching/YYYY-MM-DD_[course]_improvement-plan.md`. Structure: + +1. **Header** — course, term, instrument, response rate, numeric summary vs benchmark. +2. **Prior-plan retrospective** (if `$1` given) — for each change promised last term: Landed / Partial / Not done, with the evidence from this term's evals. +3. **Theme matrix** — one row per theme: theme · mentions · valence · numeric corroboration · classification · target (syllabus §/deck slide) · representative quote. +4. **Change list** — the concrete edits, ordered by mention count then severity, each pointing at a syllabus section or deck/slide. +5. **Investigate list** — open questions + the evidence to collect next. + +The plan is a deliverable, not a transient report, so it lives under `quality_reports/teaching/` and feeds next term's `$1`. + +### Phase 3.5: Post-Flight Verification (quotes + targets) + +The plan's hallucination-prone content is (a) verbatim quotes attributed to students and (b) "edit syllabus §X / LectureNN slide K" targets that must actually exist. Run the forked-verifier protocol in [`.claude/rules/post-flight-verification.md`](../../rules/post-flight-verification.md): spawn `claim-verifier` (`context: fork`) with the quotes + the eval source and the edit-targets + the syllabus/deck paths. Reconcile — a quote that isn't in the source, or a "slide K" that doesn't exist, is corrected or dropped before the plan is final. Opt-out: `--no-verify` (not recommended). + +## Output / Report + +After writing the plan, surface this in your **final chat message** (not inside the plan file): + +``` +## Teaching-improvement summary — [course], [term] +Themes: K total — C Change · I Investigate · P Keep · O Out-of-scope +Top 3 changes (by mentions): 1) … 2) … 3) … +Open investigations: … +Prior plan: x of y promised changes landed. +``` + +If all themes are classified and every Change names a target, say `All themes classified; every Change mapped to a syllabus or deck target.` + +## Exit behavior + +- A theme with no classification halts the report — there are no orphans, exactly as `/respond-to-referees` admits no unclassified concern. +- Read-only on the syllabus and decks: this skill **plans** edits and writes the plan file; it does not edit teaching materials. Apply changes deliberately afterward (with `/create-lecture` or direct edits). +- Numbers never auto-override text and text never auto-overrides numbers; conflicts become **Investigate**, not a silent winner. + +## Flags + +- `--min-mentions` — distinct-student threshold below which a theme is tagged *low-frequency* (default `2`). Lowering it surfaces more singletons; it never drops them. +- `--no-verify` — skip Phase 3.5 Post-Flight Verification of quotes and edit-targets. Not recommended for a dossier-bound plan. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/respond-to-referees/SKILL.md`](../respond-to-referees/SKILL.md) — the research analogue; this skill borrows its map-classify-respond shape and "signal to investigate, not auto-act" posture. +- [`.claude/skills/pedagogy-review/SKILL.md`](../pedagogy-review/SKILL.md) — once a **Change** targets a specific deck, run pedagogy-review on it before re-teaching. +- [`.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md`](../create-lecture/SKILL.md) — to execute deck-level changes the plan proposes. +- [`.claude/rules/post-flight-verification.md`](../../rules/post-flight-verification.md) — the forked-verifier protocol Phase 3.5 reuses. +- [`templates/skill-template.md`](../../../templates/skill-template.md) — house style for skills. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- It does **not** edit the syllabus or any deck — it produces a plan; you (or `/create-lecture`) apply it. +- It does **not** compute new numeric scores or re-weight the instrument; it reads the institution's numbers as given. +- It does **not** identify students or attempt to de-anonymize comments — quotes are stripped of identifying detail. +- It does **not** auto-act on disagreement or on a single comment; both route to **Investigate** or a documented rationale. diff --git a/.claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2ed882945 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +--- +name: scaffold-exercises +description: Scaffold a graded problem set with sections, problems, worked solutions, and short "why this matters" explainers across analytical, empirical, and coding types. Use when user says "make a problem set on X", "scaffold exercises for this lecture", "create practice problems", "generate homework with a solution key", "build a graded assignment on topic Y". Emits a clean student set plus a separate solution key — NOT for grading submissions or auto-checking student answers. +argument-hint: "[topic] [--difficulty intro|core|advanced] [--count N] [--types analytical,empirical,coding] [--dataset path] [--no-solutions]" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Bash"] +effort: medium +--- + +# `/scaffold-exercises` — Problem Set Scaffolder + +Generate a graded problem set as two files: a clean **student set** (problems only) and a **solution key** (worked solutions + a one-line explainer per problem). Pattern imported from `mattpocock/skills`, adapted for economics teaching — the primary lens is graded coursework that mixes derivation, estimation, and code. + +**Input:** `$ARGUMENTS` — a topic (e.g., "instrumental variables", "consumer theory", "staggered DiD") and optional flags. See [Flags](#flags). + +--- + +## When to use + +- You have a lecture or reading and want a matching assignment with an answer key. +- You want a mix of problem types (derive, estimate, code) at a controlled difficulty, with solutions emitted **separately** so the student file stays clean. + +Do **not** use this to grade submissions, auto-check answers, or build a timed exam — it scaffolds *practice/graded* material, not assessment infrastructure. + +--- + +## Problem types + +| Type | What the student does | Solution artifact | +| --- | --- | --- | +| **analytical** | Derive / prove / characterize (theory: optimization, identification, comparative statics) | Step-by-step derivation with the key lemma named | +| **empirical** | Estimate + interpret on a provided or simulated dataset | Expected estimate, sign/magnitude reasoning, common-mistake note | +| **coding** | Implement an estimator or simulation in R or Stata | Runnable reference snippet + expected output shape | + +If no dataset is supplied for an empirical problem, generate a small **simulated** one with a fixed seed (YYYYMMDD) so the answer key is deterministic and reproducible. + +--- + +## Workflow + +### Phase 0: Set topic, difficulty, counts, types (Pre-Flight) + +Read any source material the user points at (lecture `.tex`/`.qmd`, a paper, a dataset header) and produce a Pre-Flight Report **before** generating problems: + +```markdown +## Pre-Flight Report — Problem Set + +**Topic:** [topic] +**Source(s) read:** [lecture/paper/dataset — one-line takeaway each] +**Difficulty:** intro | core | advanced +**Counts by type:** analytical=N, empirical=N, coding=N (total = `--count`) +**Dataset:** [provided path | simulated with seed YYYYMMDD | none] +**Learning objectives:** [2-4 bullets the set should exercise] +``` + +Resolve every flag here (interactive choices are gathered before generation, not mid-run). If the topic is too vague to write objectives, ask one clarifying question and stop. Otherwise proceed. + +### Phase 1: Generate problems + +For each problem, write a number, a section heading, the prompt, and any data/notation it needs. Conventions: + +- **Motivation before mechanics** — one sentence on why the problem is worth solving, matching `create-lecture`'s pedagogy. +- **Notation reuse** — match symbols to the source lecture; never introduce a clashing symbol for an already-defined object. +- **Difficulty calibration** — *intro* checks one concept; *core* chains 2-3 steps; *advanced* requires a non-obvious insight or identification argument. +- **Self-contained** — each problem states its own assumptions; no "as in lecture 4" dangling references. + +### Phase 2: Generate worked solutions + explainers + +For every problem, write: + +1. A **worked solution** — full derivation, expected estimate, or runnable code (depending on type). Coding solutions must actually run; if `Bash` + R/Stata are available, execute the snippet and paste real output. +2. A **"why this matters" explainer** — 1-2 sentences linking the answer to the broader concept (the imported pattern's signature: every problem ships with a short rationale, not just a number). + +### Phase 3: Write student set + solution key + +Emit two files (paths configurable; default under the working directory): + +- `exercises/_problems.md` — the **student set**: sections, problems, any data, NO answers. +- `exercises/_solutions.md` — the **solution key**: each problem restated, its worked solution, and its explainer. + +The split is load-bearing: never leak a solution into the student file. With `--no-solutions`, write only the student set and stop. + +--- + +## Output / Report format + +Student set: + +```markdown +# Problem Set: [Topic] (Difficulty: core) + +## Section 1 — Analytical +**1.** [Motivation sentence.] [Prompt.] + +## Section 2 — Empirical +**2.** Using `data/` (vars: ...), [estimate + interpret prompt]. + +## Section 3 — Coding (R) +**3.** [Implement-X prompt.] +``` + +Solution key mirrors the numbering, adding `### Solution` and `> Why this matters:` blocks per problem. Close your chat reply with a one-line manifest: files written, problem count by type, and whether code solutions were executed or only drafted. + +--- + +## Exit behavior + +- Print the two output paths (absolute), the per-type counts, and the seed if a dataset was simulated. +- If a coding solution could not be executed (no R/Stata, or it errored), flag it as **DRAFTED — NOT RUN** rather than implying it was verified. +- If any empirical problem references variables not present in the supplied dataset, stop and surface the mismatch instead of inventing columns. + +--- + +## Flags + +- `--difficulty` — `intro` | `core` | `advanced` (default `core`); calibrates step depth as in Phase 1. +- `--count` — total number of problems (default 6); split across types per the Pre-Flight counts. +- `--types` — comma-separated subset of `analytical,empirical,coding` (default all three). +- `--dataset` — path to a real dataset for empirical problems; omit to simulate one with a seeded DGP. +- `--no-solutions` — write only the student set; skip the solution key (Phase 2/3 key file). + +--- + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md`](../create-lecture/SKILL.md) — build the lecture these exercises practice; shares notation-reuse + motivation-first conventions. +- [`.claude/skills/data-analysis/SKILL.md`](../data-analysis/SKILL.md) — for empirical problems whose reference solution needs a full R estimation pipeline. +- [`.claude/skills/simulation-study/SKILL.md`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md) — when a problem demonstrates an estimator's finite-sample behavior; reuse its seeded-DGP discipline. +- [`.claude/skills/lit-review/SKILL.md`](../lit-review/SKILL.md) — source advanced problems from current papers on the topic. +- [`.claude/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md`](../interview-me/SKILL.md) — turn a fuzzy "I want a set on…" into concrete learning objectives first. +- [`templates/skill-template.md`](../../../templates/skill-template.md) — house style for authoring/extending this skill. + +--- + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Does not grade** student submissions or auto-check answers against a key. +- **Does not run a timed exam** or enforce assessment policy (point weights, rubrics, proctoring). +- **Does not invent data** — empirical problems use a supplied dataset or an explicitly seeded simulation, never fabricated numbers. +- **Does not leak solutions** into the student file, and does not deploy/publish anything (no `/deploy`). +- **Does not auto-invoke** other skills — it references siblings; it does not call them. diff --git a/.claude/skills/syllabus/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/syllabus/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5d24ae922 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/syllabus/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +--- +name: syllabus +description: Build or restructure a course syllabus from a topic list or reading list — course description + prerequisites, week-by-week schedule (topic → readings → deliverables), measurable learning objectives, an assessment scheme + rubric, standard policies (late work, AI use, academic integrity, accessibility), and a per-week work-list to hand to `/create-lecture`. Use when user says "build a syllabus", "structure my course", "turn this reading list into a schedule", "draft a course outline", "make a syllabus for Econ 7xx", or "map weeks to lectures". Economics-aware (PhD metrics/micro/macro sequences, undergrad); generic enough for any field. +argument-hint: "[course title or topic/reading list] [--weeks N] [--level phd|grad|undergrad] [--sessions-per-week N] [--no-policies]" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write"] +effort: medium +--- + +# Build a Course Syllabus + +Turn a bare topic list or reading list into a teachable syllabus: a course description, a sequenced weekly schedule, measurable objectives, an assessment scheme with a rubric, the boilerplate policies every syllabus needs, and a week→lecture work-list you can feed straight into `/create-lecture`. The instructor owns the academic judgment; this skill structures it. + +## When to use + +- You have a pile of topics or papers and need them ordered into a term. +- You are converting last year's syllabus to a new length, level, or modality. +- You want the schedule's weeks pre-mapped to lecture decks before you start building slides. + +Not for building the slides themselves (`/create-lecture`), reviewing a deck's pedagogy (`/pedagogy-review`), or assembling the reading list from scratch (`/lit-review`). + +## Phase 0: Intake (elicit before drafting) + +A syllabus is shaped almost entirely by three parameters. Resolve them first — from flags, then by asking. Do **not** start sequencing until all three are pinned. + +1. **Level + audience** — `--level` (`phd` / `grad` / `undergrad`). For economics, name the sequence (first-year metrics, micro theory, macro, field course, undergrad intermediate). Level sets reading depth, proof-vs-application balance, and assessment type. +2. **Length + cadence** — `--weeks` (default 14) and `--sessions-per-week` (default 2). A reading seminar and a problem-set course at the same length need very different schedules. +3. **Material** — the topic list or reading list (`$ARGUMENTS`, a file path, or a `.bib`). If the user points at a `.bib` or a folder of PDFs, `Glob`/`Read` to inventory it; if topics are bare, ask for 1-2 anchor texts per topic. + +Echo a short **Intake Report** (level, weeks, cadence, N topics / N readings, any gaps) and get confirmation before Phase 1. + +## Phase 1: Sequence topics into weeks + +1. **Order by dependency, not by the reading list's order.** Build a prerequisite chain — foundational tools before the topics that use them (e.g., asymptotics → GMM → applications; consumer theory → GE → welfare). Front-load what later weeks assume. +2. **Allocate readings to weeks.** Distribute material so each week's load is realistic for the level (a PhD field week carries 2-4 papers; an undergrad week, 1 chapter + 1 application). Flag any week that is overloaded or thin. +3. **Place deliverables on the calendar.** Problem sets after the tools they exercise; the midterm at a natural conceptual break; referee report / replication / paper proposal milestones spaced so they don't collide. Mark reading-break and no-class weeks. +4. **Emit the schedule table** (topic → readings → deliverable per week) and get sign-off before writing objectives — re-sequencing is cheap now, expensive later. + +## Phase 2: Objectives + assessment + +1. **Write measurable learning objectives.** One course-level set plus per-unit objectives, each using an observable verb (derive, estimate, replicate, critique, prove) — not "understand" or "be familiar with". Tie each objective to the week(s) that deliver it. +2. **Design the assessment scheme.** Pick instruments that fit the level (problem sets + final for a methods course; referee report + replication + paper for a field/PhD course; exams + project for undergrad). State weights summing to 100%, and check every objective is assessed by something. +3. **Write one rubric** for the highest-stakes deliverable (the paper, project, or referee report) — criteria × levels, with point bands. Keep it short and concrete. + +## Phase 3: Emit the syllabus + the lecture work-list + +1. **Assemble the syllabus document** in the Output format below (skip policies if `--no-policies`). +2. **Generate the per-week `/create-lecture` work-list** — one row per teaching week mapping it to a deck name, its objective(s), and its anchor reading, so the instructor can hand each row to `/create-lecture` in order. This is the bridge from syllabus to slides. + +## Output format + +Write to `syllabus.md` (or a user-specified path): + +```markdown +# [Course title] — [Term, Year] +[Level · meeting cadence · units] + +## Course description +[2-4 sentences: what the course is, what students leave able to do.] + +## Prerequisites +[Courses / skills assumed. Be specific — "first-year metrics or equivalent".] + +## Learning objectives +By the end of this course, students will be able to: +- [observable verb] … (Weeks N-M) + +## Weekly schedule +| Week | Topic | Readings | Deliverable | +|------|-------|----------|-------------| +| 1 | … | … | — | + +## Assessment +| Component | Weight | Maps to objectives | +|-----------|-------:|--------------------| +| … | …% | … | + +### Rubric — [highest-stakes deliverable] +| Criterion | Excellent | Adequate | Weak | +|-----------|-----------|----------|------| + +## Policies +Late work · AI / LLM use · academic integrity · accessibility / accommodations · attendance. + +## Week → lecture work-list (hand to `/create-lecture`) +| Week | Deck name | Objective(s) | Anchor reading | +|------|-----------|--------------|----------------| +``` + +End the chat message (not the file) with a **gap summary**: weeks with no reading, objectives not assessed, deliverable collisions, or topics dropped for lack of time — the instructor decides how to resolve each. + +## Flags + +- `--weeks` — term length in teaching weeks (default 14). +- `--level` — `phd` / `grad` / `undergrad`; sets reading depth and assessment type. +- `--sessions-per-week` — meetings per week (default 2); affects per-week load. +- `--no-policies` — omit the boilerplate Policies section (use when an institutional template supplies it). + +## Exit behavior + +- Phase 0 halts until level, length, and material are all resolved — a forked or unattended run never guesses these. If the material is empty, ask for a topic/reading list and stop. +- Each phase gates on user sign-off (schedule before objectives, objectives before policies); re-ordering is offered cheaply at Phase 1. +- The deliverable is the syllabus file plus the work-list; the chat message always carries the gap summary, even when empty (`No gaps — every week has a reading and every objective is assessed.`). +- This skill is text-only; it never compiles, renders, or builds slides. + +## Cross-references + +- `/create-lecture` ([`.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md`](../create-lecture/SKILL.md)) — the natural next step; feed it the work-list rows one week at a time. +- `/lit-review` ([`.claude/skills/lit-review/SKILL.md`](../lit-review/SKILL.md)) — build or extend the reading list *before* sequencing. +- `/interview-me` ([`.claude/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md`](../interview-me/SKILL.md)) — if the course goals are still fuzzy, formalize them first. +- `/pedagogy-review` ([`.claude/skills/pedagogy-review/SKILL.md`](../pedagogy-review/SKILL.md)) — review narrative/pacing once decks exist; the syllabus arc is the input it checks against. +- Authoring conventions: [`templates/skill-template.md`](../../../templates/skill-template.md). + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- Does not write slide content or scaffold `.tex`/`.qmd` decks — that is `/create-lecture`. +- Does not search for or vet readings — pair with `/lit-review`. +- Does not grade, generate problem sets, or build answer keys. +- Does not assert institutional policy as binding — the Policies section is editable boilerplate the instructor must reconcile with their department's rules. +- Does not invent citations; every reading in the schedule comes from the material the user supplied. diff --git a/.claude/skills/teach-from-paper/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/teach-from-paper/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..927940586 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/teach-from-paper/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +--- +name: teach-from-paper +description: Turn a research paper into teaching materials — a lecture outline, the 3-5 results worth presenting (with intuition), a slide skeleton ready for `/create-lecture`, discussion questions, and a problem-set brief. Reads the paper end-to-end and pitches to a stated audience level. Use when user says "turn this paper into a lecture", "teach from this paper", "build slides from this PDF", "make teaching materials from X", "I'm presenting this paper to my class". +argument-hint: "[paper-path] [--level undergrad|phd|seminar] [--minutes N] [--no-exercises]" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Bash"] +effort: high +--- + +# Teach From Paper + +Convert one research paper into a ready-to-build teaching package: a lecture outline, a shortlist of teachable results with the intuition spelled out, a slide skeleton, discussion questions, and an exercise brief. The deliverable is an outline and a brief — **not** a finished deck; the slide skeleton is shaped to hand straight to `/create-lecture`, and the exercise brief to `/scaffold-exercises`. + +## When to use + +- You have a paper (PDF, `.tex`, `.md`) and a slot to teach it — a lecture, a reading group, a job-market practice talk. +- You want the teachable core extracted and pitched to a level, not a generic summary. +- You're prepping the *plan* for a deck and want `/create-lecture` to do the drafting. + +Not for: literature surveys across many papers (use `/lit-review`); refereeing the paper's correctness (use `/review-paper`); drafting the actual Beamer slides (use `/create-lecture`). + +## Inputs + +- `$0` — path to the paper. + +| Format | How to read it | +| --- | --- | +| `.tex`, `.qmd`, `.md`, `.txt` | Read directly with the `Read` tool. | +| `.pdf` | `TMP=$(mktemp -t paper).txt && pdftotext "$0" "$TMP"` (poppler-utils), then Read/Grep `"$TMP"`. | + +If extraction fails or the tool is missing, ask the user for a plain-text version and stop. The full paper goes in the context window (1M) — read it end-to-end before extracting; do not skim the abstract and guess. + +## Phases + +### Phase 0: Read the Paper + Set Audience Level (Pre-Flight Report) + +Read the paper start to finish. Then resolve the audience level and time budget — from `--level` / `--minutes` if given, otherwise ask once. Echo a Pre-Flight Report before extracting: + +```markdown +## Pre-Flight Report +**Paper:** [title, authors, year] +**One-line thesis:** [the paper's central claim in your words] +**Audience level:** undergrad | phd | seminar (drives notation depth + which proofs survive) +**Time budget:** N minutes (~N/2 slides) +**Prerequisites assumed:** [concepts students must already have] +**Running example candidate:** [the paper's application that can thread the lecture] +``` + +Get a nod on level + thesis, then proceed. Level governs everything downstream: undergrad keeps intuition and drops proofs; phd keeps the identifying assumptions and one key derivation; seminar foregrounds the contribution-vs-literature framing. + +### Phase 1: Extract the Teachable Core + Intuition + +1. Identify the paper's **3-5 results worth presenting** — not every proposition, the ones a student should leave remembering. Prefer the headline result, the identifying assumption that makes it credible, and one surprise or limitation. +2. For each, capture: the **formal statement** (trimmed to the audience level), the **intuition** (why it's true in one breath, no algebra), and the **failure mode** (when it breaks). +3. Map the paper's notation to something teachable; flag any symbol clash a student would trip on. +4. Separate **method** (how they get the result) from **takeaway** (what we now believe) — students conflate these; the lecture must not. + +### Phase 2: Build the Lecture Outline + Slide Skeleton + +Produce a motivation → setup → key result → method → takeaways arc, then a slide skeleton matching the time budget (~2 min/slide). Each skeleton entry is a title + one-line content note + figure/diagram placeholder — enough for `/create-lecture` to draft from, no prose. Honor the project's pedagogy invariants in shape: motivation before formalism, a worked example near each definition, a transition slide at each act break. + +### Phase 3: Discussion Questions + Exercise Brief + +1. Write **4-6 discussion questions** graded by depth: comprehension → application → critique ("where would this identification fail?"). Pitch to the level. +2. Write an **exercise brief** — 2-4 problems sketched (prompt + what skill it drills + expected-answer shape), NOT full solutions. This is the hand-off to `/scaffold-exercises`, which fleshes out problems, data, and answer keys. Skip if `--no-exercises`. + +## Output / Report format + +Write to `quality_reports/teach_from_paper_[sanitized-title].md`: + +```markdown +# Teaching Package: [Paper Title] +**Audience:** [level] · **Budget:** [N min] · **Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD] + +## 1. Lecture Outline +Motivation → Setup → Key Result → Method → Takeaways (one line each) + +## 2. Results Worth Presenting +### R1 — [name] +- **Statement:** … · **Intuition:** … · **Breaks when:** … +[R2..R5] + +## 3. Slide Skeleton (→ /create-lecture) +| # | Title | Content note | Figure/diagram | + +## 4. Discussion Questions +1. [comprehension] … 5. [critique] … + +## 5. Exercise Brief (→ /scaffold-exercises) +- **E1:** [prompt] — drills [skill] — answer shape: [form] +``` + +## Exit behavior + +- Present the package in chat and confirm the file path written. +- Name the two hand-offs explicitly: "Slide skeleton ready — run `/create-lecture [Topic]`. Exercise brief ready — run `/scaffold-exercises`." +- If the audience level was never confirmed, do **not** ship — a deck pitched at the wrong level is wasted work. Halt and ask. + +## Flags + +- `--level` — `undergrad` | `phd` | `seminar`. Sets notation depth, which proofs survive, and question difficulty. Asked interactively if omitted. +- `--minutes` — target lecture length; the slide count is roughly `--minutes`/2. +- `--no-exercises` — skip Phase 3's exercise brief (keep discussion questions). + +## Cross-references + +- `/create-lecture` — consumes the Phase 2 slide skeleton to draft the actual Beamer deck. See [`.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md`](../create-lecture/SKILL.md). +- `/review-paper` — referee the paper's correctness *before* teaching it if you're unsure the result holds. See [`.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md`](../review-paper/SKILL.md). +- `/lit-review` — for situating the paper among many, rather than teaching one deeply. See [`.claude/skills/lit-review/SKILL.md`](../lit-review/SKILL.md). +- The Phase 5 exercise brief is the input contract for `/scaffold-exercises` (a downstream skill that fleshes out problem sets); this skill stops at the brief. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- Does **not** draft finished slides — that's `/create-lecture`. The slide skeleton is an outline, not Beamer. +- Does **not** write full problem-set solutions — the exercise brief is a sketch for `/scaffold-exercises`. +- Does **not** verify the paper is correct — pair with `/review-paper` if the result's validity is in doubt. +- Does **not** read multiple papers or survey a field — one paper in, one teaching package out. diff --git a/.claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..87536f33a --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/triage-inbox/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +--- +name: triage-inbox +description: Triage academic email and calendar (Gmail / Google Calendar via the session's MCP) into a prioritized digest plus a referee-obligations tracker — classifying referee requests, R&R and editor correspondence, co-author threads, seminar and conference invites, and grant/admin deadlines, and proposing a human-gated action for each (draft reply, calendar hold, scaffold a project, snooze). Use when user says "triage my inbox", "check my academic email", "what needs my attention this week", "go through my mail", or when run as a scheduled routine. NEVER auto-sends or auto-accepts anything. +argument-hint: "[--since ] [--cap ] [--no-calendar] [--dry-run]" +disable-model-invocation: true +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Glob", "Bash"] +effort: medium +--- + +# /triage-inbox — Academic Inbox + Calendar Triage + +Turn a noisy academic inbox into a short, decision-ready digest. Fetch recent mail and calendar context through the session's MCP servers (Gmail / Google Calendar), classify each thread into the categories an academic actually acts on, and propose **one** action per thread — always human-gated. The companion artifact is a running **referee-obligations tracker** so you never silently overcommit to reviews. + +**Core principle:** this skill *reads, classifies, and proposes*. It drafts; it never sends, accepts, declines, or books anything without you. That boundary is what makes it safe to run unattended as a [`/schedule`](#cross-references) routine. + +## When to use + +- **Weekly / daily sweep** — "what landed that needs a decision?" without reading every thread yourself. +- **As a scheduled routine** — wired to `/schedule` to run each morning and leave a digest waiting. +- **Referee-load management** — keep an honest count of outstanding reviews against a standing cap before you say yes to one more. +- **R&R / editor deadline capture** — turn "minor revision due in 6 weeks" buried in an email into a calendar hold proposal. + +## When NOT to use + +- To actually send a reply, accept an invite, or book an event — this skill stops at *proposals*. You confirm and execute. +- To handoff a project to a co-author — that's [`/coauthor-brief`](../coauthor-brief/SKILL.md). +- To draft the R&R response document itself — that's [`/respond-to-referees`](../respond-to-referees/SKILL.md). + +## Phases + +### Phase 0 — Pre-flight (MCP check, window, referee cap) + +1. **Confirm MCP access.** This skill reaches mail/calendar **only** through the session's MCP tools (`Gmail` search/read, `Google Calendar` list/suggest). They are session-scoped — in a headless `claude -p` or cron run they may be **absent**. Probe once (e.g. list labels / list calendars). If unavailable, **degrade gracefully**: emit a tracker-only digest from the on-disk tracker (Phase 3) plus a one-line "MCP servers not reachable in this run — skipped fetch" note, and exit cleanly. Never fail the routine over a missing server. +2. **Resolve the lookback window** — `--since` (an ISO date or `Ndays`), else the timestamp of the last digest in `quality_reports/inbox/`, else default **7 days**. Echo it back. +3. **Set the referee-load cap** — `--cap` if given, else read the standing cap from the tracker header, else default **3** concurrent reviews. This cap gates the recommendation in Phase 2, not your inbox. +4. **Echo a one-line pre-flight** before fetching: window, cap, calendar on/off (`--no-calendar`), dry-run on/off. + +### Phase 1 — Fetch + classify + +1. **Fetch** recent threads via the MCP Gmail search tool over the window; if calendar is on, pull existing events/free-busy for the deadline-conflict check. +2. **Classify** each thread into exactly one bucket: + + | Bucket | Signals | + |---|---| + | **Referee request** | "invite you to review", journal/editor sender, manuscript ID, "would you be willing" | + | **R&R / editor correspondence** | "revise and resubmit", "minor/major revision", decision letter, due-date language | + | **Co-author thread** | known collaborator, shared-paper subject, "can you", "your section", attachment churn | + | **Seminar / conference invite** | "invited talk", "submit by", CFP, "seminar series", scheduling polls | + | **Grant / admin deadline** | funder name, "submission deadline", reporting/compliance, IRB/DUA renewals | + | **Noise** | newsletters, receipts, auto-notifications — counted, not itemized | + +3. Capture per thread: sender, subject, a one-line gist, any **explicit deadline**, and the bucket. + +### Phase 2 — Propose one action per thread (NEVER auto-send) + +For each non-noise thread, propose exactly one of: + +- **Draft reply** — write a courteous draft *for review*. Do not send. If the Gmail MCP exposes a create-draft tool, you MAY stage a Gmail draft (which still requires the user to hit send) — otherwise inline the text in the digest. +- **Calendar hold** — for an R&R / grant / talk deadline, propose a hold (title, date, lead-time reminder). Surface conflicts against existing events. **Propose only** — booking is the user's click. +- **Scaffold a referee project** — for an *accepted* (or leaning-yes) referee request under the cap, offer to run `/new-referee-project` on the attached manuscript. Over the cap → recommend a polite decline draft instead, and say why ("4 reviews already open vs. cap of 3"). +- **Summarize + offer a brief** — for a co-author thread, distill the asks and offer to generate a [`/coauthor-brief`](../coauthor-brief/SKILL.md). +- **Snooze** — defer with a re-surface date; nothing else happens. + +**Hard gate:** every outbound action (send, accept, decline, book, scaffold) waits for explicit user confirmation. Drafts and holds are *proposals*. Honor `--dry-run` by proposing without staging even drafts. + +### Phase 3 — Emit digest + update the obligations tracker + +1. **Digest** → `quality_reports/inbox/YYYY-MM-DD_triage.md` (create the dir). Buckets ordered by urgency; each item is a one-liner + its proposed action. Noise is a count, not a list. +2. **Referee-obligations tracker** → `quality_reports/inbox/referee-obligations.md` (a persistent ledger, not dated). Append/refresh rows for any review accepted, declined, or completed this run; recompute open count vs. cap; flag overdue rows. + +## Output / report format + +```markdown +# Inbox Triage — YYYY-MM-DD (window: last N days · referee cap: K) + +## Needs a decision (M) +- **[R&R]** *J. of X* — minor revision, **due 2026-07-15**. → Propose calendar hold (−14d reminder); conflicts: none. +- **[Referee]** *Econometrica* — review request, manuscript 12-345. Open reviews 2/3 → under cap. → Offer `/new-referee-project`. +- **[Co-author]** A. Smith — "can you redo Table 3 with not-yet-treated controls?" → Summarized; offer `/coauthor-brief`. + +## FYI / snoozed (P) +- **[Seminar]** Dept. brown-bag poll — snoozed to 2026-06-16. + +## Noise: 24 threads (newsletters, receipts) — not itemized. + +## Referee load: 2 open / cap 3 (see referee-obligations.md) +``` + +Plus the one-line chat summary: digest path, counts per bucket, open-reviews-vs-cap, and whether the MCP fetch ran or was skipped. + +## Exit behavior + +- **Normal run:** write the digest, refresh the tracker, print the summary line. No mail sent, no event booked, no project scaffolded — those await your confirmation. +- **MCP unavailable (headless/cron):** tracker-only digest + "fetch skipped" note; exit 0. The routine must not error just because a session server is absent. +- **Over the referee cap:** still surface the request, but the proposed action is a decline draft with the count as rationale — never a silent scaffold. +- **`--dry-run`:** propose everything, stage nothing (not even a draft). + +## Flags + +- `--since` `` — Lookback window. Default: the last digest's timestamp, else 7 days. +- `--cap` `` — Standing concurrent-review cap that gates referee scaffolding. Default: the tracker header value, else 3. +- `--no-calendar` — Skip the Calendar MCP entirely; classify mail only, no holds proposed. +- `--dry-run` — Propose actions without staging anything (no Gmail drafts created). + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/SKILL.md`](../coauthor-brief/SKILL.md) — the handoff brief offered for co-author threads. +- [`.claude/skills/respond-to-referees/SKILL.md`](../respond-to-referees/SKILL.md) — drafts the R&R response document once a revision deadline surfaces here. +- `/new-referee-project` — scaffolds a review repo from an accepted referee request (the action this skill proposes, never auto-runs). +- `/schedule` — wire this skill into a cron routine; the human-gated design is what makes unattended runs safe. +- [`.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md`](../../rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) — the "no daemon, user/skill-initiated, human-in-the-loop" contract this skill honors for outbound actions. +- [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../../rules/confidential-data.md) — never copy attachment contents, restricted data, or credentials into a digest that may be committed. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Send, reply, accept, decline, or book.** It drafts and proposes; you execute. No exceptions, including in scheduled runs. +- **Auto-scaffold a referee project.** It *offers* `/new-referee-project`; scaffolding waits for your yes and respects the cap. +- **Run unattended with side effects.** Outbound actions are always human-gated — the only thing a cron run writes is the digest and the tracker. +- **Read or store message bodies wholesale.** It extracts gists, deadlines, and senders; it does not archive email contents or attachment data into the repo. +- **Reach mail/calendar without MCP.** No direct IMAP/API credentials — everything goes through the session's MCP servers, and their absence degrades gracefully. diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md index fc5d01b88..6785d05c8 100644 --- a/CLAUDE.md +++ b/CLAUDE.md @@ -118,8 +118,6 @@ Enforced by `/commit` (halts + asks for override) **and** — once you run `./sc | `/checkpoint [topic]` | Save a structured state snapshot (active plan, decisions, file pointers, next actions) before stopping or handing off | | `/preregister [--style osf|aspredicted|aea-rct]` | Draft a preregistration document (OSF / AsPredicted / AEA RCT Registry) from a research spec | | `/humanize [file]` | Detect AI-voice tells in academic prose (read-only audit; no rewrite) | -| `/prompt [text] [depth:light|standard|deep]` | Reformat informal input into a structured six-section prompt, then execute | -| `/prompt-only [text] [depth] [--save path]` | Same formatting as `/prompt`, but emits the prompt as a reusable artifact (no execution) | | `/compress-session [slug]` | Distil current session into structured notes before auto-compaction (vs `/checkpoint` for natural stops) | | `/promote-memory [filter]` | Five-critic council that votes on which `[LEARN]` entries graduate from personal-memory.md to MEMORY.md | | `/stata-replication [paper-or-data]` | End-to-end Stata pipeline scaffold + execution via `stata-mcp` (mirrors `/data-analysis` for R) | @@ -133,6 +131,12 @@ Enforced by `/commit` (halts + asks for override) **and** — once you run `./sc | `/grant-proposal [--funder nsf\|nih\|erc\|foundation] [--input spec]` | Scaffold a grant proposal (aims/methods/timeline/budget/broader-impacts) from an `/interview-me` spec; delegates DMP to `/data-management-plan` + facilities to `/capture-environment`; runs an aims↔methods↔budget coherence pass and emits a funder-requirements checklist | | `/data-management-plan [--funder nsf\|nih\|erc\|horizon]` | Draft a funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF/NIH 2023/ERC/Horizon) composing confidential-data + environment-capture primitives | | `/coauthor-brief [--since ] [--for ]` | Generate a collaborator handoff brief: git delta, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data steps | +| `/triage-inbox [--since --cap --no-calendar --dry-run]` | Triage academic email + calendar (Gmail/Calendar MCP) into a prioritized digest + referee-obligations tracker; proposes human-gated actions (draft reply / calendar hold / scaffold project / snooze), never auto-sends; schedulable | +| `/syllabus [topics-or-readings] [--weeks --level --sessions-per-week]` | Build a course syllabus from a topic/reading list — description + prerequisites, weekly schedule (topic→readings→deliverables), measurable objectives, assessment scheme + rubric, policies, and a per-week `/create-lecture` work-list | +| `/teach-from-paper [paper] [--level] [--minutes] [--no-exercises]` | Turn a paper into a lecture outline, teachable results + intuition, a slide skeleton (→ `/create-lecture`), discussion questions, and an exercise brief (→ `/scaffold-exercises`) | +| `/respond-to-eval [evals] [prior-plan]` | Turn student course evaluations into a classified teaching-improvement plan (Keep/Change/Investigate/Out-of-scope, mapped to syllabus + decks) | +| `/scaffold-exercises [topic] [--difficulty] [--count] [--types] [--dataset] [--no-solutions]` | Scaffold a graded problem set (analytical/empirical/coding) with worked solutions + explainers; clean student set + separate solution key | +| `/new-skill [name] [--from-learn] [--dry-run]` | Scaffold a convention-compliant skill — interview → write `SKILL.md` from the template with gate-passing frontmatter (flag + allowed-tools parity), then remind to register the README/CLAUDE.md surface rows | --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 350588416..6bf679696 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -72,9 +72,19 @@ If both succeed, delete `Slides/HelloWorld.tex` and `Quarto/HelloWorld.qmd` and ## How It Works +### Goal-first, gate-enforced (the v2.0 shift) + +You don't craft a perfect prompt — you **state a goal and let the work loop toward it under gates**. Specialist agents do the labor; enforcing gates decide when it's good enough; you adjudicate the disagreements they surface. Three things make that trustworthy: + +- **Real gates, not reminders.** A version-controlled pre-commit hook (run `./scripts/install-hooks.sh` once) runs the surface-sync + quality (≥80) checks on *every* commit — bypassing the skill no longer bypasses the review. A `git-guardrails` hook blocks destructive git (`reset --hard`, `clean -f`, `push --force`, `add -A`); the review runtime re-checks any reviewer-introduced "fatal" finding before it counts. +- **A real orchestration runtime.** Reviews fan out to forked specialist agents, reduce over a shared finding schema, judge with a hallucination gate, and loop until dry — see [`orchestrator-protocol.md`](.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md). +- **Ground truth as a process.** A mismatch isn't always a failure: a defensible, *named* alternative is recorded as `EXPLAINED` and carried into your response-to-referees, while genuine errors stay fail-closed. + +This is **not** an autonomous daemon — the loop is always you- or skill-initiated, and you stay the auditor. Scheduled [Routines](.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md) handle recurring chores (nightly reproducibility, weekly lit-delta, inbox triage) and notify only when they find something. + ### Contractor Mode -You describe a task. For complex or ambiguous requests, Claude first creates a requirements specification with MUST/SHOULD/MAY priorities and clarity status (CLEAR/ASSUMED/BLOCKED). You approve the spec, then Claude plans the approach and invokes the right skill (e.g. `/create-lecture`, `/qa-quarto`, `/review-paper --adversarial`). That skill implements the orchestrator pattern internally — implement, verify, review, fix, re-verify, score — and returns a summary when the work meets quality standards. Say "just do it" and it auto-commits when the score clears 80. +You describe a task. For complex or ambiguous requests, Claude first creates a requirements specification with MUST/SHOULD/MAY priorities and clarity status (CLEAR/ASSUMED/BLOCKED). You approve the spec, then Claude plans the approach and invokes the right skill (e.g. `/create-lecture`, `/qa-quarto`, `/review-paper --adversarial`). That skill implements the orchestrator runtime internally — implement, verify, review, fix, re-verify, score — and returns a summary when the work meets quality standards. Say "just do it" and it runs the full loop; commits still require an explicit `/commit` (which the pre-commit hook then gates). ### Specialized Agents @@ -91,7 +101,7 @@ Each is better at its narrow task than a generalist would be. The `/slide-excell ### Adversarial QA -Two agents work in opposition: the **critic** reads both Beamer and Quarto and produces harsh findings. The **fixer** implements exactly what the critic found. They loop until the critic says "APPROVED" (or 5 rounds max). This catches errors that single-pass review misses. +Two agents work in opposition: the **critic** reads both Beamer and Quarto and produces harsh findings. The **fixer** implements exactly what the critic found. They **loop until dry** — converging when a round surfaces no new issue (a 5-round cap is the fallback, not the primary stop). This catches errors that single-pass review misses. ### Quality Review @@ -101,7 +111,7 @@ Every artifact gets a score (0–100). Scores below threshold halt the workflow - **90** — PR threshold - **95** — excellence (aspirational) -> **Framing honesty:** Thresholds are advisory at the harness level — the `/commit` skill runs quality checks and halts on failure, but there is no pre-commit git hook that blocks a direct `git commit`. If you bypass the skill, you bypass the review. For hard enforcement, configure a git pre-commit hook. +> **Framing honesty:** Thresholds are advisory at the harness level — the `/commit` skill runs quality checks and halts on failure. **And** as of v2.0, running `./scripts/install-hooks.sh` once installs a real pre-commit hook (`.githooks/pre-commit`) that runs the surface-sync + quality (≥80) gates on *every* commit, so bypassing the skill no longer bypasses the review. Opt out per-commit with `SKIP_QUALITY_GATE=1` or `git commit --no-verify`. ### Context Survival @@ -178,7 +188,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — ## What's Included
    -18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules, 6 hooks (click to expand) +18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules, 7 hooks (click to expand) ### Agents (`.claude/agents/`) @@ -240,8 +250,6 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — | `/preregister` | Generate a preregistration document (OSF / AsPredicted / AEA RCT Registry style) from a research spec | | `/verify-claims` (v1.7.0) | Chain-of-Verification fact-check (forked verifier, fresh context). HIGH/MED/LOW-WARN severity tiers (v1.9.0); HIGH-WARN gate-refuses `/commit`. | | `/humanize` (v1.9.0) | Detect AI-voice tells in academic prose (10 detection categories; read-only, no rewrite) | -| `/prompt` (v1.9.0) | Reformat informal/dictated input into a structured six-section prompt, then execute (ported from Blattman with stripping) | -| `/prompt-only` (v1.9.0) | Same formatting as `/prompt` but emits the prompt as a reusable artifact (no execution) | | `/compress-session` (v1.9.0) | Distil current session into structured notes (decisions, next actions, *discarded-as-noise*) before auto-compaction | | `/promote-memory` (v1.9.0) | Five-critic council that votes on which `[LEARN]` entries graduate from personal-memory.md to MEMORY.md | | `/stata-replication` (v1.9.0) | End-to-end Stata pipeline via the `stata-mcp` MCP server (mirrors `/data-analysis` for R-first projects) | @@ -255,6 +263,12 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — | `/grant-proposal` (v2.0) | Scaffold an NSF/NIH/ERC/foundation grant proposal by composing primitives (spec → aims/methods, delegated DMP + facilities, coherence pass + requirements checklist) | | `/data-management-plan` (v2.0) | Funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF / NIH DMS 2023 / ERC / Horizon Europe) — folds in disclosure-avoidance + IRB constraints and a replication-package/environment plan; outputs a draft + funder checklist | | `/coauthor-brief` (v2.0) | Collaborator handoff brief — what changed since last brief, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data access steps | +| `/triage-inbox` (v2.0) | Schedulable academic inbox + calendar triage via Gmail/Calendar MCP — classifies referee requests, R&R/editor, co-author threads, seminar/conference invites, grant/admin deadlines; proposes one human-gated action each (draft reply, calendar hold, `/new-referee-project`, `/coauthor-brief`, snooze); emits a digest + referee-obligations tracker; degrades gracefully when MCP is absent; never auto-sends | +| `/syllabus` (v2.0) | Build/restructure a course syllabus from a topic or reading list — course description + prerequisites, week-by-week schedule (topic→readings→deliverables), measurable learning objectives, assessment scheme + rubric, standard policies (late work / AI use / integrity / accessibility), and a per-week work-list mapping weeks to `/create-lecture` decks; economics-aware (PhD metrics/micro/macro sequences, undergrad) | +| `/teach-from-paper` (v2.0) | Reads a paper end-to-end and pitches it to a stated audience level — lecture outline (motivation → setup → key result → method → takeaways), the 3-5 results worth presenting with intuition, a slide skeleton for `/create-lecture`, discussion questions, and a problem-set brief for `/scaffold-exercises` | +| `/respond-to-eval` (v2.0) | Teaching analogue of `/respond-to-referees` — clusters course-eval comments into themes, weights by frequency (signal vs noise), classifies Keep / Change / Investigate / Out-of-scope, and drafts concrete changes mapped to the syllabus + slide decks; saves the plan to `quality_reports/teaching/` | +| `/scaffold-exercises` (v2.0) | Scaffold a graded problem set across analytical/empirical/coding types, with worked solutions and "why this matters" explainers emitted to a separate solution key | +| `/new-skill` (v2.0) | Scaffold a new skill that follows this repo's conventions — interviews for purpose, triggers, and tools, writes `.claude/skills//SKILL.md` from the template with frontmatter/body that pass `check-skill-integrity.py` first try, then reminds to add the surface-table rows | ### Research Workflow diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index 68e31a6bf..16d1f42fb 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ - + @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@

    What's in the template

  • 18 specialized agents — proofreader, slide auditor, pedagogy reviewer, R reviewer, TikZ critic, domain reviewer, adversarial QA pair, translator, verifier, claim-verifier (Chain-of-Verification), the simulated-peer-review trio (editor, domain referee, methods referee), the Monte Carlo sim-reviewer, the CRAN-focused R package-reviewer, the AI-voice humanize-auditor, and the promote-memory council
  • Adversarial critic-fixer loop — two agents that check each other's work across up to 5 rounds — the critic can't fix, the fixer can't approve
  • Quality scoring with mandatory verification — every file scored 0–100; /commit halts below 80 (user can override with an explicit reason); skills that implement the orchestrator pattern verify every output before reporting done
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  • 46 slash commands + 29 context-aware rules — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, and R conventions
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  • 50 slash commands + 30 context-aware rules — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, and R conventions
  • Simulated peer review — /review-paper --peer <journal> runs a full editorial pipeline: editor desk review, two blind referees with deliberately different dispositions (STRUCTURAL / CREDIBILITY / MEASUREMENT / POLICY / THEORY / SKEPTIC), editorial synthesis with FATAL / ADDRESSABLE / TASTE classification. Calibrated to 5 econ journals (AER / QJE / JPE / ECMA / ReStud) plus a template for adding your own field. Adapted from Hugo Sant’Anna’s clo-author with permission.
  • Research workflow skills — /lit-review for literature synthesis, /research-ideation for hypothesis generation, /interview-me to formalize ideas, /review-paper for manuscript review, /data-analysis for end-to-end R analysis
  • Smart hooks — Desktop notifications (macOS/Linux), pre-compaction context snapshots to session logs, progressive context-usage warnings, post-edit verify reminders
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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 46 skills, and 29 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 30 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.html b/guide/workflow-guide.html index 568371f97..af7f17909 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.html +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.html @@ -2558,7 +2558,7 @@

    My Claude Code Setup

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 38 skills, and 28 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 46 skills, and 29 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 38 skills, 28 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 38: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 46: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd index efd9f230e..5078075f1 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd @@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ Most of the time, you just describe what you want and Claude handles the rest. E ::: {.callout-important} ## The Bottom Line -**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 46 skills, and 29 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. +**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 30 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. ::: ::: {.callout-note} ## You Don't Need All of This on Day One -This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. +This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. ::: --- @@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ argument-hint: "[filename without .tex extension]" ::: {.callout-note} ## Built-In Skills -Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template's 46: `/batch` orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), `/simplify` runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and `/debug` helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above. +Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template's 50: `/batch` orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), `/simplify` runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and `/debug` helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above. ::: ## Agents --- Specialized Reviewers {#agents---specialized-reviewers} diff --git a/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh b/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000..aa65f4de6 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# +# Nightly reproducibility-drift check (cron-able; no Claude/auth needed). +# +# A thin LOCAL equivalent of the "Reproducibility drift" Routine in +# .claude/references/scheduled-routines.md, for users who prefer a machine +# cron over a managed Routine. It does NOT re-run analysis — it flags +# passport claims whose source_file / output_file is newer than the claim's +# last_verified_on (i.e. the number on disk may have moved since it was last +# checked). Exits 1 if any claim is stale, so cron can email you. +# +# For the full re-audit, run /audit-reproducibility inside Claude Code (or +# prefer the managed Routine, which survives a closed laptop). +# +# Usage: ./scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh (run from the repo root or via cron) +# +set -uo pipefail +REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)" +cd "$REPO_ROOT" || exit 2 + +python3 - "$REPO_ROOT" <<'PY' +import sys, re, pathlib, datetime +root = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]) +pdir = root / "quality_reports" / "passports" +if not pdir.is_dir(): + print("no passports/ — nothing to check"); sys.exit(0) + +def parse_iso(s): + s = s.strip().strip('"').strip("'").replace("Z", "+00:00") + try: return datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(s).timestamp() + except Exception: return None + +stale = [] +for pf in sorted(pdir.glob("*.yaml")): + lines = pf.read_text(errors="replace").splitlines() + cur = {} + def flush(c): + lv = c.get("last_verified_on") + for key in ("source_file", "output_file"): + f = c.get(key) + if f and lv is not None: + p = root / f + try: + if p.exists() and p.stat().st_mtime > lv: + stale.append(f"{pf.name}: {c.get('id','?')} — {f} newer than last_verified_on") + except Exception: + pass + for ln in lines: + m = re.match(r"\s*-\s*id:\s*(.+)", ln) + if m: + flush(cur); cur = {"id": m.group(1).strip()} + continue + m = re.match(r"\s*(source_file|output_file|last_verified_on):\s*(.+)", ln) + if m: + k, v = m.group(1), m.group(2).strip() + cur[k] = parse_iso(v) if k == "last_verified_on" else v + flush(cur) + +if stale: + print("STALE claims (re-run /audit-reproducibility):") + for s in stale: print(" " + s) + sys.exit(1) +print("All tracked claims fresh (no source/output newer than last_verified_on).") +PY diff --git a/templates/skill-template.md b/templates/skill-template.md index e5b944790..807697ae2 100644 --- a/templates/skill-template.md +++ b/templates/skill-template.md @@ -437,4 +437,4 @@ When adapting this template to your domain: - **Purpose:** Starter for domain-specific skills - **Usage:** Copy to `.claude/skills/[name]/SKILL.md`, customize for your field -For existing skills examples, see `.claude/skills/` directory (46 skills for LaTeX, R, Quarto, and research workflows). +For existing skills examples, see `.claude/skills/` directory (50 skills for LaTeX, R, Quarto, and research workflows). From dbd9f7f4594397f18b3593e58888cec1ce020ba7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:54:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 04/19] docs(v2.0): sync guide HTML counts (50/30) + disambiguate archive-readme template (exploration log, not a replication README) --- guide/workflow-guide.html | 6 +++--- templates/archive-readme.md | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.html b/guide/workflow-guide.html index af7f17909..6b0004428 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.html +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.html @@ -2757,7 +2757,7 @@

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 46 skills, and 29 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 30 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 46 skills, 29 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 46: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 50: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

    diff --git a/templates/archive-readme.md b/templates/archive-readme.md index e6faf2788..ffa6cc87c 100644 --- a/templates/archive-readme.md +++ b/templates/archive-readme.md @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ + + # Abandoned: [Project Name] ([DATE RANGE]) ## Why Abandoned From 5fe6968697e7aeda7ce6af66c2318287baf4059e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 12:14:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 05/19] docs(v2.0): CHANGELOG v2.0.0 + de-stale guide/landing/backlog (nothing stale) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - CHANGELOG: v2.0.0 entry led by a "⭐ Why upgrade — read this even if you've used the template before" before→after table for returning forkers, full Added/Changed/Removed/Upgrading sections - guide/workflow-guide.qmd (+ re-rendered HTML → docs/): orchestrator "pattern" → real runtime; loop-until-dry; "no pre-commit hook" claim fixed; log-reminder now "auto-writes" not "nags"; hooks table adds git-guardrails + claim-reconcile, drops verify-reminder; model-routing "inherit default" → pinned; /prompt + /prompt-only marked retired - docs/index.html (landing): goal-first/gate-enforced + auditor + not-a-daemon framing; runtime fan-out→reduce→judge; 50/30/7 counts; "no /prompt command" - README: rules table +prompt-shaping (always-on) +confidential-data (path-scoped); version pin → v2.0.0 - v2.0-backlog.md: moved /syllabus, /teach-from-paper, /power-analysis, /replication-package, /respond-to-eval, /triage-inbox (+8 more) to "Shipped in v2.0.0"; marketplace re-affirmed as documented non-goal All gates green; comprehensive stale-term scan clean (verify-reminder, "pattern not a runtime", "no pre-commit", "model: inherit", "5 rounds max" → 0 hits). --- .claude/references/v2.0-backlog.md | 30 ++--- CHANGELOG.md | 76 ++++++++++++ README.md | 8 +- docs/index.html | 16 +-- docs/workflow-guide.html | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++-------- guide/workflow-guide.html | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- guide/workflow-guide.qmd | 73 +++++++----- 7 files changed, 411 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/references/v2.0-backlog.md b/.claude/references/v2.0-backlog.md index c0a17dadc..24b453dcf 100644 --- a/.claude/references/v2.0-backlog.md +++ b/.claude/references/v2.0-backlog.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Forward-looking work explicitly deferred from earlier releases. Lives here (committed) so forkers can see roadmap signals without reading gitignored plan files. Updated as items land or get re-prioritized. -**Last reviewed:** 2026-05-31 (post-v1.10.0 ship) +**Last reviewed:** 2026-06-09 (post-v2.0.0 ship) **Previous file:** `v1.9-backlog.md` — renamed to `v2.0-backlog.md` on 2026-05-20 after v1.9.0 shipped; CHANGELOG references to the old filename are historical. --- @@ -23,7 +23,18 @@ The v1.10.0 "hub-expansion" release shipped the first slice of the multi-project - ✅ **Hub framing** — "One repo, many project types" section in README + landing page. - ✅ **R package-development gate** — `/r-package-check` skill + `r-package-reviewer` agent + `r-package-conventions` rule (plus an analysis-only scope banner on `r-code-conventions.md`). Closes the largest uncovered portfolio category for R-first maintainers (12+ R packages). -## Still deferred (active candidates for v2.0) +## Shipped in v2.0.0 (no longer in backlog) + +The v2.0.0 "modernization" release (2026-06-09) shipped the loop-first / gate-enforced paradigm shift plus the long-deferred capability skills. See [CHANGELOG.md v2.0.0](../../CHANGELOG.md). + +- ✅ **All five long-deferred capability skills** — `/syllabus`, `/teach-from-paper`, `/power-analysis`, `/replication-package`, `/respond-to-eval` (deferred since the v1.9.0 plan) all shipped, plus `/capture-environment`, `/did-event-study`, `/disclosure-check`, `/grant-proposal`, `/data-management-plan`, `/coauthor-brief`, `/scaffold-exercises`, `/new-skill`, and `/triage-inbox`. +- ✅ **`/triage-inbox`** — shipped (human-gated email/calendar triage + referee-obligations tracker). The `/vault-note` skill and a populated `.mcp.json` remain deferred (below). +- ✅ **Enforcing pre-commit hook + table-row sync gate** — closes the "direct `git commit` bypasses the gate" hole and the enumerative-table drift this backlog flagged as high-priority. +- ✅ **Real orchestration runtime** — `orchestrator-protocol.md` rewritten from "pattern, not a runtime" into fan-out → reduce → judge + hallucination gate → loop-until-dry (`orchestration-schemas.md`, `agent-fleet.md`). +- ✅ **Verification 2.0 (`EXPLAINED`)**, **per-agent model/effort pinning**, **enforcing hooks** (`git-guardrails`, `claim-reconcile`, auto-writing session log), **output-styles**, **CI**, and the **`confidential-data` + `prompt-shaping` rules**. +- ✅ **Retired** `/prompt`, `/prompt-only`, and `verify-reminder.py`. + +## Still deferred (post-v2.0) ### Portfolio hub: package development — Stata & Python (R shipped in v1.10.0) @@ -36,13 +47,12 @@ The R package triad shipped in v1.10.0. Stata and Python remain, to cover the re Also surfaced by the audit; lower priority and a scope decision (centralize here vs. keep in the dedicated `outlook-attention-triage` / `DiD-vault` repos with only an MCP bridge here). -- **`/triage-inbox` skill** — classify unread/important Gmail threads (action / FYI / referee-request / co-author), draft responses, propose calendar holds via the Google Calendar MCP. -- **`/vault-note` skill** — capture a research insight into the knowledge vault with backlinks + tags. +- **`/vault-note` skill** — capture a research insight into the knowledge vault with backlinks + tags. (`/triage-inbox` shipped in v2.0.) - **sample `.mcp.json`** — opt-in wiring for Gmail / Calendar + econ-data MCPs (FRED / World Bank / BLS) + Zotero. ### À-la-carte packaging (deferred) -Considered for v1.10.0 and pulled before ship: a `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` exposing `review-suite` / `simulation-suite` as installable subsets. The `strict:false` in-place schema has known path-resolution quirks ([#11278](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11278)) and needs interactive validation. Revisit if adoption demand warrants; for now the template stays fork-the-whole-thing. +Considered for v1.10.0 and pulled before ship: a `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` exposing `review-suite` / `simulation-suite` as installable subsets. The `strict:false` in-place schema has known path-resolution quirks ([#11278](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11278)) and needs interactive validation. **Re-affirmed as a documented non-goal in v2.0** (see CHANGELOG v2.0.0 "Notes"); the template stays fork-the-whole-thing until #11278 resolves. ### Disciplinary breadth (continuation of v1.8.0 + v1.9.0 work) @@ -58,15 +68,9 @@ For each: ~3 journal profiles in `journal-profiles.md` (~120 lines), 2-3 paper t clo-author v4.2.0 added theorist + theorist-critic for drafting formal-theory sections (identification, consistency, asymptotic normality, proofs). Useful complement to our v1.8.0 `formal-theory` paper-type rubric in methods-referee. With permission + attribution, port them to `.claude/agents/`. Pair with `/review-paper --peer` to handle theory-only papers more rigorously than current methods-referee can alone. -### Capability skills originally planned for v1.9.0 (deferred to v2.0) - -- **`/syllabus`** — semester-level course plan from a list of papers. Output: structured syllabus document with weekly readings, learning objectives, assessment plan. Useful for the teaching-side of social-science work. -- **`/teach-from-paper`** — reverse direction of `/create-lecture`: given a published paper, scaffold a 1-2 lecture mini-deck that teaches its key contributions to graduate students. -- **`/power-analysis`** — sample-size calculator + design-effect helper. R-flavoured (uses `pwr` / `simr` / `Superpower`). Especially valuable when paired with `/preregister` (target N is one of preregistration's MUST fields). -- **`/replication-package`** — generator (not just auditor — we have `/audit-reproducibility`). AEA-compliant scaffolding for econ; OSF-compliant scaffolding for psych. Outputs a directory tree with README, code, data manifest, license file. Reduces "format the replication package" busywork. v2.0 priority: passport.yaml from v1.9.0 is the foundation; `/replication-package` should auto-generate the AEA Table/Figure Mapping spreadsheet from the passport. -- **`/respond-to-eval`** — structured response to teaching evaluations (drawing on the response-to-referees pattern). Useful for tenure-track faculty preparing dossiers. +### Capability skills (all shipped in v2.0.0) -Each is roughly 100-200 lines of SKILL.md, plus optional template + reference. Conservative addition cadence is 1-2 per minor release. +`/syllabus`, `/teach-from-paper`, `/power-analysis`, `/replication-package`, and `/respond-to-eval` — deferred since the v1.9.0 plan — **all shipped in v2.0.0**, alongside `/capture-environment`, `/did-event-study`, `/disclosure-check`, `/grant-proposal`, `/data-management-plan`, `/coauthor-brief`, and `/scaffold-exercises`. See the "Shipped in v2.0.0" section above and CHANGELOG.md. ### Mechanical / discipline upgrades diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index c86ea7434..0cabc2fc0 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -6,6 +6,82 @@ If you have forked this template, see the **Upgrading** section at the bottom fo --- +## v2.0.0 — 2026-06-09 + +A **paradigm-shift major release.** The template moves from a *prompt-craft contractor* — craft a prompt, invoke a skill, read a report — to a **verification-gated research lab**: you state a goal, a fleet of specialist agents does the labor under **gates that enforce themselves**, and you act as the **auditor of the disagreements they surface**. Two ideas converge: *"loops, not prompts"* (Boris Cherny / the Claude Code team) and *"ground truth is a process, not a dataset"* (Amazon Science). The result modernizes the **orchestration**, not the substance — the passport, simulation contract, and journal-calibrated referees are untouched. Shipped against `quality_reports/plans/2026-06-09_v2.0-modernization-master-plan.md`. + +### ⭐ Why upgrade — read this even if you've used the template before + +If you forked v1.x, here is what is *materially different* now (one-stop summary): + +| Before (v1.x) | Now (v2.0) | +|---|---| +| Quality gate ran **only inside `/commit`** — a direct `git commit` bypassed it | A real **git pre-commit hook** (`./scripts/install-hooks.sh`) runs surface-sync + quality (≥80) on **every** commit | +| The review loop was *"a pattern, not a runtime"* — prose a human triggered | A **real runtime**: fan-out → reduce → judge **+ hallucination gate** → **loop-until-dry** (`orchestrator-protocol.md`) | +| A numeric mismatch was always a **FAIL** (so people disabled the gate) | A defensible, **named** alternative is recorded as **`EXPLAINED`** and flows into your response-to-referees; real errors stay fail-closed | +| Hooks **nagged** ("you should update the log / compile") | Hooks **act**: the Stop hook **auto-writes** the session log; `git-guardrails` **blocks** destructive git; `claim-reconcile` flags stale claims the moment analysis changes | +| 17 of 18 agents ran on `model: inherit` (cost savings unrealized) | Every agent **pinned** to model + effort (Opus referees / Sonnet reviewers / Haiku mechanical) | +| You **audited** reproducibility | You **produce** the deposit: `/replication-package` builds the AEA DCAS / openICPSR package | +| Onboarding said *"paste this starter prompt"* | Onboarding is **goal-first**; the `/prompt` and `/prompt-only` skills are retired (shaping is now ambient) | + +**If you do only one thing after pulling v2.0:** run `./scripts/install-hooks.sh` to activate the pre-commit gate. + +**Inventory at release: 50 skills, 18 agents, 30 rules, 7 hooks** (was 38 / 18 / 28 / 6 at v1.10.0). Net: +14 skills, −2 retired; +2 rules; +2 hooks, −1 retired. New: 9 references (3 added), 2 output-styles, CI. + +### Added — economist "producer" skills (the biggest gold-standard gap) + +- **`/replication-package`** — assembles a submission-ready **AEA DCAS / openICPSR** deposit: standard README, dataset manifest, computational-requirements capture, a Table/Figure → `script:line` map (from the passport), and a confidential-data deposit note. Gates on `/audit-reproducibility` (blocks on FAIL, allows EXPLAINED). *Move from auditing reproducibility to producing the deliverable.* +- **`/capture-environment`** — snapshots the computational environment: `renv.lock` + `sessionInfo` (R), `requirements.txt`/`uv.lock` (Python), Stata version + ado list, seeds/RNG, and an optional pinning `Dockerfile`. +- **`/did-event-study`** — a **thin wrapper** over canonical staggered-DiD packages (Callaway–Sant'Anna `did`, Sun–Abraham `fixest::sunab`, HonestDiD; Stata twins) that surfaces each package's *native* diagnostics and **never reimplements an estimator**. Warns on the never-treated vs not-yet-treated control choice (the contested decision the EXPLAINED disposition exists for). +- **`/power-analysis`** — power / required-N / MDE for two-arm RCTs (clustering/ICC), multi-arm, and simulation-based designs; feeds `/preregister`. +- **`/disclosure-check`** — statistical-disclosure-limitation pre-screen for restricted-data outputs (small cells, dominance, PII); gates on CRITICAL. +- **`/grant-proposal`** + **`/data-management-plan`** — compose the confidential-data + environment-capture primitives into NSF/NIH/ERC-shaped drafts + requirements checklists. +- **`/coauthor-brief`** — a collaborator/multi-machine handoff brief (git delta, per-artifact state, reproduce-locally + restricted-data access steps). +- **`confidential-data.md` rule** — restricted/IRB-data protocol (never commit raw data; disclosure clearance; restricted-data-safe multi-author git topology). **AEA Data Editor / DCAS policy** added to `journal-profiles.md`. + +### Added — teaching-at-scale (the repo's origin, previously a blind spot) + +- **`/syllabus`**, **`/teach-from-paper`**, **`/respond-to-eval`** (the teaching analogue of `/respond-to-referees`), and **`/scaffold-exercises`** (graded problem sets with worked solutions + explainers, adapted from `mattpocock/skills`). + +### Added — autonomy, runtime, and authoring + +- **Real orchestration runtime** — `.claude/references/orchestration-schemas.md` (the `FINDING`/`SCORECARD`/`RUN_CONFIG` contracts + the post-judge **hallucination gate**) and `agent-fleet.md` (the 18-agent manifest with tiers). `orchestrator-protocol.md` rewritten from *pattern* to *runtime*. +- **Event-driven + scheduled autonomy** — `claim-reconcile.py` (flags stale numeric claims when an analysis script/output changes), `.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md` + `scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh`, and **`/triage-inbox`** (schedulable, human-gated email/calendar triage + referee-obligations tracker). +- **`/new-skill`** — scaffolds a convention-compliant skill that passes `check-skill-integrity` on the first try (adapted from `mattpocock/skills`' write-a-skill). +- **Output styles** — `.claude/output-styles/academic-writing.md` and `referee.md` (the template shipped zero before). +- **CI** — `.github/workflows/gates.yml` (surface-sync + integrity + model-version checks on every PR) and `deploy.yml` (re-render the guide → `docs/` on push to `main`). +- **Enforcing pre-commit hook** — `.githooks/pre-commit` + `scripts/install-hooks.sh` (opt-in via `core.hooksPath`). +- **`git-guardrails.py`** (PreToolUse) — blocks `git reset --hard`, `git clean -f`, `git push --force`, and blanket `git add -A`; warns on hardcoded machine paths in code (`CLAUDE_STRICT_PATHS=1` to hard-block). +- **Table-row sync gate** — `check-surface-sync.py` now verifies that the enumerative skills/agents *tables* (not just prose counts) carry one row per item on disk — the drift that hid the v1.5.0 peer-review trio for three releases. + +### Changed + +- **Verification 2.0 — "ground truth is a process."** `audit-reproducibility` and `claim-verifier` gain an **`EXPLAINED`** disposition: an out-of-tolerance numeric/citation mismatch stays a fail-closed FAIL **unless** the author records a *concrete named alternative* (e.g. "never-treated vs not-yet-treated comparison group"), in which case it is surfaced, non-blocking, and carried into the response-to-referees. The hard floor holds (fabricated citations, unmatched claims, vague notes never downgrade). `audit-reproducibility` also no longer presumes the manuscript is the oracle — a mismatch means "one of {paper, code} must change." +- **Loop-until-dry.** `qa-quarto`, `review-paper --adversarial`, `deep-audit`, and `seven-pass-review` converge when a round surfaces no new CRITICAL/MAJOR finding (2 dry rounds), with the old "max 5 rounds" demoted to a fallback cap; synthesizers run the **post-judge hallucination gate** (an editor can't desk-reject on a reason no referee raised). +- **Hooks act instead of nagging.** `log-reminder.py` now **auto-writes** a structured session-log entry on each meaningful change-set (was a stderr reminder). `pre-compact.py`'s DRAFT-plan block is **ON by default**. The statusline now shows context-% + dirty-file count + plan status. +- **Per-agent model routing realized.** All 18 agents pinned to `model:` + `effort:` per `model-routing.md` (9 Opus / 8 Sonnet / 1 Haiku). +- **Goal-first onboarding.** The README "How It Works" leads with *goal-first, gate-enforced*; the guide and landing page reframed accordingly. "Contractor mode" remains, augmented. + +### Removed + +- **`/prompt` and `/prompt-only` skills** — retired. Prompt-craft is 2023-era; a loop-first workflow shapes every ambiguous request automatically, so this is now the ambient **`prompt-shaping.md`** rule, not a command. (`prompt-formatting-core.md` re-pointed; `/interview-me` remains for multi-turn specification.) +- **`verify-reminder.py` hook** — retired. Its per-edit "compile reminder" is superseded by the Stop-hook completion note in the auto-writing session log. + +### Upgrading (forkers pulling v2.0) + +1. **`./scripts/install-hooks.sh`** — activate the pre-commit gate (the single highest-value step). +2. If you customized `/prompt` or `/prompt-only`, move that logic into your own rule or `/interview-me` — the skills are gone. +3. If you reference `verify-reminder.py` in a fork, remove it; the Stop hook (`log-reminder.py`) now writes logs. +4. Pin `model:`/`effort:` in any custom agents (`model-routing.md`), and re-run `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` after adding skills — it now checks table rows too. +5. No data migrations; the passport schema is backward-compatible (`EXPLAINED` is additive). + +### Notes + +- Count surfaces (README, CLAUDE.md, guide source + rendered HTML, landing page, skill template) updated to 50 / 18 / 30 / 7; `check-surface-sync.sh` (now including the table-row gate), `check-skill-integrity.py`, and `check-model-versions.sh` all pass. +- Explicit **non-goals** (documented, not omissions): no autonomous daemon, no plugin marketplace, no multi-estimator production fleet (one `/did-event-study` proof-of-concept), no challenger→auditor→ledger pipeline (the zero-cost `EXPLAINED` mechanism instead), `MEMORY.md` stays the committed memory backend. + +--- + ## v1.10.0 — 2026-05-31 A **hub-expansion + currency-refresh** minor release. The template gains a Monte Carlo simulation capability and an R package-development release gate, refreshes the model / effort / cost guidance for **Opus 4.8**, and reframes itself as a hub for an entire research program — not just slides and papers. Shipped against the plan at `quality_reports/plans/2026-05-31_v1.10.0-simulation-and-hub.md` (local-only per the `quality_reports/plans/*` ignore rule). No breaking changes. diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6bf679696..841b6b572 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — | `/visual-audit` | Launch slide-auditor on a file | | `/pedagogy-review` | Launch pedagogy-reviewer on a file | | `/review-r` | Launch R code reviewer | -| `/qa-quarto` | Adversarial critic-fixer loop (max 5 rounds) | +| `/qa-quarto` | Adversarial critic-fixer loop (loops until dry; 5-round cap is a fallback) | | `/slide-excellence` | Combined multi-agent review | | `/translate-to-quarto` | Full 11-phase Beamer-to-Quarto translation | | `/validate-bib` | Cross-reference citations against bibliography | @@ -291,9 +291,10 @@ Rules use path-scoped loading: **always-on** rules load every session (~100 line | Rule | What It Enforces | |------|-----------------| | `plan-first-workflow` | Plan mode for non-trivial tasks + context preservation | -| `orchestrator-protocol` | Contractor mode: implement → verify → review → fix → score | +| `orchestrator-protocol` | Goal-first review runtime: fan-out → reduce → judge (+ hallucination gate) → loop-until-dry (the contractor loop, now a real runtime) | | `session-logging` | Three logging triggers: post-plan, incremental, end-of-session | | `meta-governance` | Template vs. working project distinctions | +| `prompt-shaping` (v2.0) | Ambient habit — shape informal/ambiguous requests before acting (replaces the retired `/prompt` + `/prompt-only` skills) | **Path-scoped** (load only when working on matching files): @@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ Rules use path-scoped loading: **always-on** rules load every session (~100 line | `stata-code-conventions` (v1.9.0) | `**/*.do`, `scripts/stata/**` | Stata header scaffold, numbered pipeline, esttab, clustering discipline, AEA compliance | | `simulation-conventions` (v1.10.0) | `**/*simulation*.R`, `**/*_sim.R`, `explorations/**` | Monte Carlo discipline: DGP/estimand, L'Ecuyer seeding, Monte Carlo SE, coverage-vs-truth, raw-result storage | | `r-package-conventions` (v1.10.0) | `R/**`, `tests/**`, `DESCRIPTION`, `NAMESPACE`, `man/**` | R package-source standards: no `library()` in `R/`, roxygen NAMESPACE, Imports/Suggests, testthat 3e, CRAN policy | +| `confidential-data` (v2.0) | `data/**`, `**/*.dta`, `**/restricted/**`, `**/confidential/**` | Restricted/IRB-data protocol: never commit raw data, disclosure clearance before release, restricted-data-safe multi-author git topology | ### Templates (`templates/`) @@ -411,7 +413,7 @@ See the [guide's ecosystem section](https://psantanna.com/claude-code-my-workflo - **What's new:** see [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md). We follow loose semver — breaking changes get major bumps so you can decide when to pull updates. - **How to contribute:** see [.github/CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md). PRs welcome for generalizable improvements; fork-specific work stays in your fork. -- **Pin to a version:** `git checkout v1.10.0` (current as of 2026-05-31). +- **Pin to a version:** `git checkout v2.0.0` (current as of 2026-06-09). --- diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index 16d1f42fb..23428f71c 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@

    My Claude Code Setup

    Actively developed and maintained. This summarizes how I use Claude Code for academic work — slides, papers, data analysis, and more. Adopted by 15+ research groups across economics, energy, political science, and engineering. I keep learning and updating these files. -

    A foundation for AI-assisted academic work using Claude Code. You describe what you want — lecture slides, a research paper, a data analysis, a replication package — and Claude plans the approach, runs specialized agents, fixes issues, verifies quality, and presents results. Like a contractor who handles the entire job.

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    A foundation for AI-assisted academic work using Claude Code. You describe what you want — lecture slides, a research paper, a data analysis, a replication package — and Claude plans the approach, runs specialized agents, fixes issues, verifies quality, and presents results — goal-first and gate-enforced. Like a contractor who handles the entire job, with you as the auditor of the disagreements the review loop surfaces. It is deliberately not an autonomous daemon: every loop is started by you or a skill, never on its own.

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    What's in the template

    • Full academic lifecycle — not just slides: research papers, data analysis, Monte Carlo simulation studies, replication packages, proposals, and presentations
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    • Contractor mode via skills — you describe the task; Claude picks a skill (/create-lecture, /review-paper, /qa-quarto, …) that runs the orchestrator pattern internally: plan, implement, review with agents, fix, re-verify, score against quality thresholds
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    • Contractor mode via skills — you describe the task; Claude picks a skill (/create-lecture, /review-paper, /qa-quarto, …) that runs the orchestrator runtime internally: plan, implement, review with agents via fan-out → reduce → judge (with a post-judge hallucination gate), fix, re-verify, score against quality thresholds — looping until dry
    • Beamer → Quarto pipeline — 11-phase translation with TikZ-to-SVG and ggplot-to-plotly conversion
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    • 18 specialized agents — proofreader, slide auditor, pedagogy reviewer, R reviewer, TikZ critic, domain reviewer, adversarial QA pair, translator, verifier, claim-verifier (Chain-of-Verification), the simulated-peer-review trio (editor, domain referee, methods referee), the Monte Carlo sim-reviewer, the CRAN-focused R package-reviewer, the AI-voice humanize-auditor, and the promote-memory council
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    • Adversarial critic-fixer loop — two agents that check each other's work across up to 5 rounds — the critic can't fix, the fixer can't approve
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    • 18 specialized agents — proofreader, slide auditor, pedagogy reviewer, R reviewer, TikZ critic, domain reviewer, adversarial QA pair, translator, verifier, claim-verifier (Chain-of-Verification), the simulated-peer-review trio (editor, domain referee, methods referee), the Monte Carlo sim-reviewer, the CRAN-focused R package-reviewer, the AI-voice humanize-auditor, and the promote-memory council — all pinned to a fixed model + effort tier (no longer inherit)
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    • Adversarial critic-fixer loop — two agents that check each other's work and loop until dry (converge after 2 consecutive clean rounds; a 5-round cap is only a fallback) — the critic can't fix, the fixer can't approve
    • Quality scoring with mandatory verification — every file scored 0–100; /commit halts below 80 (user can override with an explicit reason); skills that implement the orchestrator pattern verify every output before reporting done
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    • 50 slash commands + 30 context-aware rules — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, and R conventions
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    • 50 slash commands + 30 context-aware rules + 7 hooks — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, /replication-package, /disclosure-check, /grant-proposal, /syllabus, /triage-inbox, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, R conventions, and the ambient prompt-shaping rule (no /prompt command)
    • Simulated peer review — /review-paper --peer <journal> runs a full editorial pipeline: editor desk review, two blind referees with deliberately different dispositions (STRUCTURAL / CREDIBILITY / MEASUREMENT / POLICY / THEORY / SKEPTIC), editorial synthesis with FATAL / ADDRESSABLE / TASTE classification. Calibrated to 5 econ journals (AER / QJE / JPE / ECMA / ReStud) plus a template for adding your own field. Adapted from Hugo Sant’Anna’s clo-author with permission.
    • Research workflow skills — /lit-review for literature synthesis, /research-ideation for hypothesis generation, /interview-me to formalize ideas, /review-paper for manuscript review, /data-analysis for end-to-end R analysis
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    • Smart hooks — Desktop notifications (macOS/Linux), pre-compaction context snapshots to session logs, progressive context-usage warnings, post-edit verify reminders
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    • Smart hooks (7) — desktop notifications (macOS/Linux); pre-compaction context snapshots to session logs (DRAFT-block default ON); progressive context-usage warnings; log-reminder.py auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set; git-guardrails.py blocks dangerous git ops (reset --hard, clean -f, push --force, add -A); claim-reconcile.py flags stale numeric claims when scripts change; plus a real git pre-commit hook (.githooks/pre-commit via ./scripts/install-hooks.sh) that runs the surface-sync + quality gates
    • TikZ diagram pipeline — 8-snippet gallery (DAGs, DiD, event study, timeline, regression scatter, flowchart, supply-demand), /new-diagram scaffold with prevention pre-checks, production Beamer preamble with palette-synced Quarto theme, measurement-based collision audits via tikz-reviewer
    • Plan-first workflow with continuous learning — non-trivial tasks start in plan mode; [LEARN:tag] corrections persist in MEMORY.md across sessions; plans survive context compression
    • Research exploration workflow — structured explorations/ sandbox with fast-track prototyping (60/100 threshold), simplified orchestrator for R/research, and merge-only quality reporting
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    • Automated session log enforcement — a lightweight Stop hook reminds Claude to keep session logs current; Beamer-Quarto sync enforced via auto-loaded rules
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    • 2026 features — effort levels for cost control, permission modes, expanded hook events, skill frontmatter (effort, context: fork), /batch for parallel refactoring, plugins, and headless CLI mode
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    • Automated session logging — a Stop hook (log-reminder.py) auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set rather than merely nagging; Beamer-Quarto sync enforced via auto-loaded rules
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    • 2026 features — effort levels for cost control, permission modes, expanded hook events, skill frontmatter (effort, context: fork), /batch for parallel refactoring, plugins, headless CLI mode, output-styles (academic-writing, referee), CI via .github/workflows, and scheduled Routines (nightly-repro-check.sh)
    • Community ecosystem — extended by clo-author, claudeblattman, MixtapeTools, autoresearch, and ClaudeCodeTools — 15+ research groups have adopted this workflow
    diff --git a/docs/workflow-guide.html b/docs/workflow-guide.html index f6a495e0d..6516d236d 100644 --- a/docs/workflow-guide.html +++ b/docs/workflow-guide.html @@ -2380,7 +2380,7 @@

    Table of contents

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    -

    3.3 The Orchestrator: A Pattern, Not a Daemon

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    3.3 The Orchestrator: A Runtime, Not a Daemon

    Individual agents are specialists. Skills like /slide-excellence and /qa-quarto coordinate a few agents for specific tasks. In day-to-day work, you don’t have to think about which agents to run — the right skill runs the right agents for you.

    -

    The orchestrator protocol (.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) defines the 6-step loop (IMPLEMENT → VERIFY → REVIEW → FIX → RE-VERIFY → SCORE) that skills implement internally. It is not a runtime daemon: plan approval does NOT auto-trigger this loop. You invoke a skill (e.g., /create-lecture, /qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial) and the skill runs the pattern within its own scope.

    +

    The orchestrator protocol (.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) is a real runtime, built on the Task subagent primitive every Claude Code session has: skills fan out to forked reviewers, reduce their typed findings through a deterministic gate, judge with a post-judge hallucination guard, and loop until dry. What is not automatic is the trigger: nothing launches this loop on its own, and there is no background daemon — plan approval does NOT auto-trigger it. You invoke a skill (e.g., /create-lecture, /qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial) and the skill runs the runtime within its own scope. The human is the auditor of the disagreements the loop surfaces; this is explicitly not an autonomous daemon.

    What’s mechanically implemented today: /commit (verifier + quality_score), /qa-quarto (critic-fixer loop), /review-paper --adversarial (critic-fixer loop), /slide-excellence (multi-agent fanout), /review-paper --peer (editor + 2 referees + cross-artifact). See Pattern 2 for the complete workflow.

    3.4 Quality Review: The 80/90/95 System

    -

    The quality-gates rule (quality-gates.md) defines scoring thresholds that /commit and review skills apply. Thresholds are advisory — enforced inside specific skills, not by a repo-wide git pre-commit hook. A direct git commit bypasses the review. Every file gets a quality score from 0 to 100:

    +

    The quality-gates rule (quality-gates.md) defines scoring thresholds that /commit and review skills apply. Thresholds are advisory — enforced inside specific skills and, once you run ./scripts/install-hooks.sh, by a real git pre-commit hook (.githooks/pre-commit) that runs the surface-sync + quality (≥80) gates on every commit. Bypass it sparingly with SKIP_QUALITY_GATE=1 or --no-verify. Every file gets a quality score from 0 to 100:

    Orchestrator patternSpecific skills (/qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial, /create-lecture, …) run a 6-step verify-review-fix-score loop internallyOrchestrator runtimeSpecific skills (/qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial, /create-lecture, …) run a real fan-out → reduce → judge → loop-until-dry runtime internally
    Multi-agent workflows
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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 38: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

    +

    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 50: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

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    TROUBLESHOOTING.md for the migration checklist.

    -

    Not all agents need the same model. Each agent file has a model: field in its YAML frontmatter. By default, all agents use model: inherit (they use whatever model your main session runs). But you can customize this to optimize cost:

    +

    Not all agents need the same model. Each agent file has a model: field in its YAML frontmatter. In v2.0 all 18 agents are pinned to an explicit model + effort tier (no longer inherit), following the 70/20/10 routing pattern below. You can re-tune any agent to optimize cost:

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    - - + + +
    Defaultmodel: inheritUses whatever the main session runsMechanical defaultmodel: haikuBounded, fast work proofreader, slide-auditor
    -

    The principle: Use Opus for tasks that require holding two large documents in mind simultaneously (translation, adversarial comparison). Use Sonnet for tasks with clear, bounded scope (fix these 12 issues, check this R script). Let everything else inherit.

    +

    The principle: Use Opus for tasks that require holding two large documents in mind simultaneously (translation, adversarial comparison). Use Sonnet for tasks with clear, bounded scope (fix these 12 issues, check this R script). Use Haiku for mechanical work. In v2.0 every agent is pinned explicitly rather than inheriting — see agent-fleet.md for the full fleet + tiers.

    To change an agent’s model, edit its YAML frontmatter:

    ---
 name: quarto-critic
-model: opus   # was: inherit
+model: opus   # pinned per agent-fleet.md (v2.0: no agent inherits)
 ---
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    Workflow Patterns for the full protocol.

    -
    -

    4.8.2 Session Logs — Why-Not-Just-What History (with Automated Reminders)

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    4.8.2 Session Logs — Why-Not-Just-What History (auto-written)

    Git commits record what changed, but not why. Session logs fill this gap. Claude writes to quality_reports/session_logs/ at three points: right after plan approval, incrementally during implementation (as decisions happen), and at session end. This means the log captures reasoning as it happens, before auto-compression can discard it.

    -

    Because relying on instructions alone is fragile (Claude forgets during long sessions), a Stop hook (.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py) fires after every response. It tracks how many responses have passed since the session log was last updated. After a threshold, it blocks Claude from stopping until the log is current. This turns a best practice into an enforced behavior.

    +

    Because relying on instructions alone is fragile (Claude forgets during long sessions), a Stop hook (.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py) fires after every response. In v2.0 it no longer merely nags — it auto-writes the session log for every meaningful change-set, so the why-history is captured without depending on Claude remembering to do it.

    New sessions can read these logs to understand not just the current state of the project, but the reasoning behind it. See Pattern 1 in Workflow Patterns for the full protocol.

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    4.8.4 Hooks — Automated Enforcement

    The session log reminder above is one example of a broader pattern: using hooks to enforce rules that Claude might otherwise forget during long sessions. Rules live in context and can be compressed away. Hooks live in .claude/settings.json and fire every time, regardless of context state.

    -

    The template includes hooks for logging, notifications, and context survival:

    +

    The template includes 7 hooks for logging, notifications, context survival, and git safety (plus a real git pre-commit hook, .githooks/pre-commit, installed via ./scripts/install-hooks.sh):

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    -

    - - + + + + + + + +
    Verification reminderPostToolUse[Write|Edit]Reminds to compile/render before marking doneGit guardrailsPreToolUse[Bash]Blocks destructive git (reset --hard, clean -f, push --force, add -A)
    Claim reconcilePostToolUse[Edit|Write]Flags stale numeric claims when analysis scripts change
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    5.2.3 Agent Selection

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    “Translate Lecture 5 to Quarto. Just do it.”

    -

    In this mode, the orchestrator still runs the full verify-review-fix loop (quality is non-negotiable), but skips the final approval pause and auto-commits if the score is 80 or above. It still presents the summary so you can see what was done.

    +

    In this mode, the orchestrator still runs the full fan-out → reduce → judge → loop-until-dry runtime (quality is non-negotiable) and skips the final approval pause for the current skill. It does not auto-commit: “just do it” is never commit authorization — commits require an explicit /commit or unambiguous request. It still presents the summary so you can see what was done.

    5.2.5 Relationship to Existing Skills

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    7.4 Step 4: Creating Custom Skills

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    The guide includes 24 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

    +

    The guide includes 50 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

    7.4.1 When to Create a Skill

    Create a skill when: - You repeatedly explain the same 3+ step workflow to Claude - You need domain-specific quality checks (citation style, notation consistency, lab protocols) - You enforce field-specific output formats (thesis structure, journal templates) - You coordinate multi-tool workflows (data → analysis → manuscript)

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    -

    The /deep-audit skill was itself extracted from a repeating workflow using /learn. After running 7 rounds of manual consistency audits — each time launching 4 parallel agents to check guide accuracy, hook code quality, skills/rules consistency, and cross-document counts — the pattern was codified into a skill. Now /deep-audit launches those same 4 agents, triages findings, applies fixes, and loops until clean (max 5 rounds). It also encodes a table of known bug patterns from past audits so future rounds catch regressions faster.

    +

    The /deep-audit skill was itself extracted from a repeating workflow using /learn. After running 7 rounds of manual consistency audits — each time launching 4 parallel agents to check guide accuracy, hook code quality, skills/rules consistency, and cross-document counts — the pattern was codified into a skill. Now /deep-audit launches those same 4 agents, triages findings, applies fixes, and loops until clean (loop-until-dry: converges after 2 dry rounds, with a fallback cap). It also encodes a table of known bug patterns from past audits so future rounds catch regressions faster.

    This is the /learn lifecycle in action: discover a repeating workflow → extract it → never repeat the manual steps again.

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    -/prompt -.claude/skills/prompt/ -Reformat informal input into a structured six-section prompt, then execute (v1.9.0; ported from Blattman v2.1 with stripping) - - -/prompt-only -.claude/skills/prompt-only/ -Same formatting as /prompt but emits the prompt as a reusable artifact (no execution) (v1.9.0) - - /compress-session .claude/skills/compress-session/ Distil the current session into a structured note (decisions, files, open questions, next actions, discarded-as-noise) before auto-compaction (v1.9.0) @@ -6890,6 +6886,76 @@

    +/replication-package +.claude/skills/replication-package/ +Assemble a submission-ready DCAS / openICPSR replication package; calls /audit-reproducibility and blocks on FAIL (v2.0) + + +/capture-environment +.claude/skills/capture-environment/ +Snapshot the computational environment (renv.lock / sessionInfo / requirements.txt / uv.lock + optional Dockerfile + seeds) (v2.0) + + +/did-event-study +.claude/skills/did-event-study/ +Staggered DiD / event-study wrapper over canonical packages (Callaway–Sant’Anna did, fixest::sunab, HonestDiD; Stata csdid/eventstudyinteract/honestdid) (v2.0) + + +/power-analysis +.claude/skills/power-analysis/ +Power / required-N / MDE for study design (RCT, clustered/ICC, multi-arm, or simulation-based) + a methods paragraph for /preregister (v2.0) + + +/disclosure-check +.claude/skills/disclosure-check/ +Pre-screen restricted-data outputs for SDL violations (small cells, dominance, PII); gates on any CRITICAL (v2.0) + + +/grant-proposal +.claude/skills/grant-proposal/ +Scaffold a grant proposal (NSF/NIH/ERC/foundation) from an /interview-me spec; delegates DMP + facilities; aims↔︎methods↔︎budget coherence pass (v2.0) + + +/data-management-plan +.claude/skills/data-management-plan/ +Draft a funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF/NIH 2023/ERC/Horizon) (v2.0) + + +/coauthor-brief +.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/ +Generate a collaborator handoff brief: git delta, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data steps (v2.0) + + +/triage-inbox +.claude/skills/triage-inbox/ +Triage academic email + calendar (Gmail/Calendar MCP) into a prioritized digest + referee-obligations tracker; human-gated actions only (v2.0) + + +/syllabus +.claude/skills/syllabus/ +Build a course syllabus from a topic/reading list (schedule, objectives, assessment + rubric, per-week /create-lecture work-list) (v2.0) + + +/teach-from-paper +.claude/skills/teach-from-paper/ +Turn a paper into a lecture outline, teachable results, slide skeleton (→ /create-lecture), discussion questions, exercise brief (v2.0) + + +/respond-to-eval +.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/ +Turn student course evaluations into a classified teaching-improvement plan (Keep/Change/Investigate/Out-of-scope) (v2.0) + + +/scaffold-exercises +.claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/ +Scaffold a graded problem set (analytical/empirical/coding) with worked solutions; clean student set + separate solution key (v2.0) + + +/new-skill +.claude/skills/new-skill/ +Scaffold a convention-compliant skill (interview → write SKILL.md with gate-passing frontmatter) (v2.0) + @@ -6918,7 +6984,7 @@

    Orchestrator Protocol orchestrator-protocol.md -Contractor mode loop +Review runtime: fan-out → reduce → judge (+ hallucination gate) → loop-until-dry (goal-first / gate-enforced; augments contractor mode) Session Logging @@ -6930,6 +6996,11 @@

    +Prompt Shaping +prompt-shaping.md +Ambient prompt-shaping habit (replaces the retired /prompt and /prompt-only skills) +

    Path-scoped (load only when working on matching files):

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    +Confidential Data +confidential-data.md +restricted/confidential data paths — no raw confidential data in git, disclosure-avoidance discipline, used by /disclosure-check / /replication-package / /data-management-plan (v2.0) + @@ -7087,9 +7163,9 @@

    -Session log reminder +Session log auto-writer Stop (command) -.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py +.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py — auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set (no longer merely a reminder) Desktop notification @@ -7099,7 +7175,7 @@

    Context state capture PreCompact (command) -.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py +.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py — DRAFT-block default is ON Context restoration @@ -7112,9 +7188,14 @@

    -Verification reminder -PostToolUse[Write|Edit] (command) -.claude/hooks/verify-reminder.py +Git guardrails +PreToolUse (command) +.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py — blocks reset --hard / clean -f / push --force / add -A + + +Claim reconcile +PostToolUse (command) +.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py — flags stale numeric claims when scripts change @@ -7205,7 +7286,7 @@

    8.5.3 Hooks Not Firing

    -

    Symptom: No context warnings, no verification reminders.

    +

    Symptom: No context warnings, no auto-written session log, no git guardrails firing.

    Fix: 1. Check hooks are configured: cat .claude/settings.json | grep hooks 2. Ensure Python 3 is available: which python3 3. Check hook file permissions: ls -la .claude/hooks/

    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.html b/guide/workflow-guide.html index 6b0004428..6516d236d 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.html +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.html @@ -2380,7 +2380,7 @@

    Table of contents

    • 3.1 Why Specialized Agents Beat One-Size-Fits-All
    • 3.2 The Adversarial Pattern: Critic + Fixer
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    • 3.3 The Orchestrator: A Pattern, Not a Daemon
      • +
    • 3.3 The Orchestrator: A Runtime, Not a Daemon
    • 3.4 Quality Review: The 80/90/95 System
      • 3.4.1 How Scores Are Calculated
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        Table of contents

      • 4.8 Memory — Cross-Session Persistence
        • 4.8.1 Plans — Compression-Resistant Task Memory
          • -
        • 4.8.2 Session Logs — Why-Not-Just-What History (with Automated Reminders)
          • +
        • 4.8.2 Session Logs — Why-Not-Just-What History (auto-written)
        • 4.8.3 How It All Fits Together
        • 4.8.4 Hooks — Automated Enforcement
        • 4.8.5 Context Survival System (Advanced)
          • @@ -2614,8 +2614,8 @@

          -Orchestrator pattern -Specific skills (/qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial, /create-lecture, …) run a 6-step verify-review-fix-score loop internally +Orchestrator runtime +Specific skills (/qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial, /create-lecture, …) run a real fan-out → reduce → judge → loop-until-dry runtime internally Multi-agent workflows @@ -3124,7 +3124,7 @@

          @@ -3154,15 +3154,15 @@

          -

          3.3 The Orchestrator: A Pattern, Not a Daemon

          +
          +

          3.3 The Orchestrator: A Runtime, Not a Daemon

          Individual agents are specialists. Skills like /slide-excellence and /qa-quarto coordinate a few agents for specific tasks. In day-to-day work, you don’t have to think about which agents to run — the right skill runs the right agents for you.

          -

          The orchestrator protocol (.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) defines the 6-step loop (IMPLEMENT → VERIFY → REVIEW → FIX → RE-VERIFY → SCORE) that skills implement internally. It is not a runtime daemon: plan approval does NOT auto-trigger this loop. You invoke a skill (e.g., /create-lecture, /qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial) and the skill runs the pattern within its own scope.

          +

          The orchestrator protocol (.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) is a real runtime, built on the Task subagent primitive every Claude Code session has: skills fan out to forked reviewers, reduce their typed findings through a deterministic gate, judge with a post-judge hallucination guard, and loop until dry. What is not automatic is the trigger: nothing launches this loop on its own, and there is no background daemon — plan approval does NOT auto-trigger it. You invoke a skill (e.g., /create-lecture, /qa-quarto, /review-paper --adversarial) and the skill runs the runtime within its own scope. The human is the auditor of the disagreements the loop surfaces; this is explicitly not an autonomous daemon.

          What’s mechanically implemented today: /commit (verifier + quality_score), /qa-quarto (critic-fixer loop), /review-paper --adversarial (critic-fixer loop), /slide-excellence (multi-agent fanout), /review-paper --peer (editor + 2 referees + cross-artifact). See Pattern 2 for the complete workflow.

          3.4 Quality Review: The 80/90/95 System

          -

          The quality-gates rule (quality-gates.md) defines scoring thresholds that /commit and review skills apply. Thresholds are advisory — enforced inside specific skills, not by a repo-wide git pre-commit hook. A direct git commit bypasses the review. Every file gets a quality score from 0 to 100:

          +

          The quality-gates rule (quality-gates.md) defines scoring thresholds that /commit and review skills apply. Thresholds are advisory — enforced inside specific skills and, once you run ./scripts/install-hooks.sh, by a real git pre-commit hook (.githooks/pre-commit) that runs the surface-sync + quality (≥80) gates on every commit. Bypass it sparingly with SKIP_QUALITY_GATE=1 or --no-verify. Every file gets a quality score from 0 to 100:

          @@ -3671,7 +3671,7 @@

          TROUBLESHOOTING.md for the migration checklist.

          -

          Not all agents need the same model. Each agent file has a model: field in its YAML frontmatter. By default, all agents use model: inherit (they use whatever model your main session runs). But you can customize this to optimize cost:

          +

          Not all agents need the same model. Each agent file has a model: field in its YAML frontmatter. In v2.0 all 18 agents are pinned to an explicit model + effort tier (no longer inherit), following the 70/20/10 routing pattern below. You can re-tune any agent to optimize cost:

          @@ -3701,18 +3701,18 @@

          -

          - - + + +
          Defaultmodel: inheritUses whatever the main session runsMechanical defaultmodel: haikuBounded, fast work proofreader, slide-auditor
          -

          The principle: Use Opus for tasks that require holding two large documents in mind simultaneously (translation, adversarial comparison). Use Sonnet for tasks with clear, bounded scope (fix these 12 issues, check this R script). Let everything else inherit.

          +

          The principle: Use Opus for tasks that require holding two large documents in mind simultaneously (translation, adversarial comparison). Use Sonnet for tasks with clear, bounded scope (fix these 12 issues, check this R script). Use Haiku for mechanical work. In v2.0 every agent is pinned explicitly rather than inheriting — see agent-fleet.md for the full fleet + tiers.

          To change an agent’s model, edit its YAML frontmatter:

          ---
 name: quarto-critic
-model: opus   # was: inherit
+model: opus   # pinned per agent-fleet.md (v2.0: no agent inherits)
 ---
          @@ -4261,10 +4261,10 @@

          Workflow Patterns for the full protocol.

          -
          -

          4.8.2 Session Logs — Why-Not-Just-What History (with Automated Reminders)

          +
          +

          4.8.2 Session Logs — Why-Not-Just-What History (auto-written)

          Git commits record what changed, but not why. Session logs fill this gap. Claude writes to quality_reports/session_logs/ at three points: right after plan approval, incrementally during implementation (as decisions happen), and at session end. This means the log captures reasoning as it happens, before auto-compression can discard it.

          -

          Because relying on instructions alone is fragile (Claude forgets during long sessions), a Stop hook (.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py) fires after every response. It tracks how many responses have passed since the session log was last updated. After a threshold, it blocks Claude from stopping until the log is current. This turns a best practice into an enforced behavior.

          +

          Because relying on instructions alone is fragile (Claude forgets during long sessions), a Stop hook (.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py) fires after every response. In v2.0 it no longer merely nags — it auto-writes the session log for every meaningful change-set, so the why-history is captured without depending on Claude remembering to do it.

          New sessions can read these logs to understand not just the current state of the project, but the reasoning behind it. See Pattern 1 in Workflow Patterns for the full protocol.

          @@ -4330,7 +4330,7 @@

          4.8.4 Hooks — Automated Enforcement

          The session log reminder above is one example of a broader pattern: using hooks to enforce rules that Claude might otherwise forget during long sessions. Rules live in context and can be compressed away. Hooks live in .claude/settings.json and fire every time, regardless of context state.

          -

          The template includes hooks for logging, notifications, and context survival:

          +

          The template includes 7 hooks for logging, notifications, context survival, and git safety (plus a real git pre-commit hook, .githooks/pre-commit, installed via ./scripts/install-hooks.sh):

          @@ -4371,9 +4371,14 @@

          -

          - - + + + + + + + +
          Verification reminderPostToolUse[Write|Edit]Reminds to compile/render before marking doneGit guardrailsPreToolUse[Bash]Blocks destructive git (reset --hard, clean -f, push --force, add -A)
          Claim reconcilePostToolUse[Edit|Write]Flags stale numeric claims when analysis scripts change
          @@ -4721,9 +4726,10 @@

          5.2.3 Agent Selection

          @@ -4774,7 +4780,7 @@

          “Translate Lecture 5 to Quarto. Just do it.”

          -

          In this mode, the orchestrator still runs the full verify-review-fix loop (quality is non-negotiable), but skips the final approval pause and auto-commits if the score is 80 or above. It still presents the summary so you can see what was done.

          +

          In this mode, the orchestrator still runs the full fan-out → reduce → judge → loop-until-dry runtime (quality is non-negotiable) and skips the final approval pause for the current skill. It does not auto-commit: “just do it” is never commit authorization — commits require an explicit /commit or unambiguous request. It still presents the summary so you can see what was done.

          5.2.5 Relationship to Existing Skills

          @@ -4784,7 +4790,7 @@

          7.4 Step 4: Creating Custom Skills

          -

          The guide includes 24 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

          +

          The guide includes 50 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

          7.4.1 When to Create a Skill

          Create a skill when: - You repeatedly explain the same 3+ step workflow to Claude - You need domain-specific quality checks (citation style, notation consistency, lab protocols) - You enforce field-specific output formats (thesis structure, journal templates) - You coordinate multi-tool workflows (data → analysis → manuscript)

          @@ -6531,7 +6537,7 @@

          -

          The /deep-audit skill was itself extracted from a repeating workflow using /learn. After running 7 rounds of manual consistency audits — each time launching 4 parallel agents to check guide accuracy, hook code quality, skills/rules consistency, and cross-document counts — the pattern was codified into a skill. Now /deep-audit launches those same 4 agents, triages findings, applies fixes, and loops until clean (max 5 rounds). It also encodes a table of known bug patterns from past audits so future rounds catch regressions faster.

          +

          The /deep-audit skill was itself extracted from a repeating workflow using /learn. After running 7 rounds of manual consistency audits — each time launching 4 parallel agents to check guide accuracy, hook code quality, skills/rules consistency, and cross-document counts — the pattern was codified into a skill. Now /deep-audit launches those same 4 agents, triages findings, applies fixes, and loops until clean (loop-until-dry: converges after 2 dry rounds, with a fallback cap). It also encodes a table of known bug patterns from past audits so future rounds catch regressions faster.

          This is the /learn lifecycle in action: discover a repeating workflow → extract it → never repeat the manual steps again.

          @@ -6547,7 +6553,7 @@

          @@ -6856,16 +6862,6 @@

          -/prompt -.claude/skills/prompt/ -Reformat informal input into a structured six-section prompt, then execute (v1.9.0; ported from Blattman v2.1 with stripping) - - -/prompt-only -.claude/skills/prompt-only/ -Same formatting as /prompt but emits the prompt as a reusable artifact (no execution) (v1.9.0) - - /compress-session .claude/skills/compress-session/ Distil the current session into a structured note (decisions, files, open questions, next actions, discarded-as-noise) before auto-compaction (v1.9.0) @@ -6890,6 +6886,76 @@

          +/replication-package +.claude/skills/replication-package/ +Assemble a submission-ready DCAS / openICPSR replication package; calls /audit-reproducibility and blocks on FAIL (v2.0) + + +/capture-environment +.claude/skills/capture-environment/ +Snapshot the computational environment (renv.lock / sessionInfo / requirements.txt / uv.lock + optional Dockerfile + seeds) (v2.0) + + +/did-event-study +.claude/skills/did-event-study/ +Staggered DiD / event-study wrapper over canonical packages (Callaway–Sant’Anna did, fixest::sunab, HonestDiD; Stata csdid/eventstudyinteract/honestdid) (v2.0) + + +/power-analysis +.claude/skills/power-analysis/ +Power / required-N / MDE for study design (RCT, clustered/ICC, multi-arm, or simulation-based) + a methods paragraph for /preregister (v2.0) + + +/disclosure-check +.claude/skills/disclosure-check/ +Pre-screen restricted-data outputs for SDL violations (small cells, dominance, PII); gates on any CRITICAL (v2.0) + + +/grant-proposal +.claude/skills/grant-proposal/ +Scaffold a grant proposal (NSF/NIH/ERC/foundation) from an /interview-me spec; delegates DMP + facilities; aims↔︎methods↔︎budget coherence pass (v2.0) + + +/data-management-plan +.claude/skills/data-management-plan/ +Draft a funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF/NIH 2023/ERC/Horizon) (v2.0) + + +/coauthor-brief +.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/ +Generate a collaborator handoff brief: git delta, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data steps (v2.0) + + +/triage-inbox +.claude/skills/triage-inbox/ +Triage academic email + calendar (Gmail/Calendar MCP) into a prioritized digest + referee-obligations tracker; human-gated actions only (v2.0) + + +/syllabus +.claude/skills/syllabus/ +Build a course syllabus from a topic/reading list (schedule, objectives, assessment + rubric, per-week /create-lecture work-list) (v2.0) + + +/teach-from-paper +.claude/skills/teach-from-paper/ +Turn a paper into a lecture outline, teachable results, slide skeleton (→ /create-lecture), discussion questions, exercise brief (v2.0) + + +/respond-to-eval +.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/ +Turn student course evaluations into a classified teaching-improvement plan (Keep/Change/Investigate/Out-of-scope) (v2.0) + + +/scaffold-exercises +.claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/ +Scaffold a graded problem set (analytical/empirical/coding) with worked solutions; clean student set + separate solution key (v2.0) + + +/new-skill +.claude/skills/new-skill/ +Scaffold a convention-compliant skill (interview → write SKILL.md with gate-passing frontmatter) (v2.0) +

    @@ -6918,7 +6984,7 @@

    Orchestrator Protocol orchestrator-protocol.md -Contractor mode loop +Review runtime: fan-out → reduce → judge (+ hallucination gate) → loop-until-dry (goal-first / gate-enforced; augments contractor mode) Session Logging @@ -6930,6 +6996,11 @@

    +Prompt Shaping +prompt-shaping.md +Ambient prompt-shaping habit (replaces the retired /prompt and /prompt-only skills) +

    Path-scoped (load only when working on matching files):

    @@ -7067,6 +7138,11 @@

    +Confidential Data +confidential-data.md +restricted/confidential data paths — no raw confidential data in git, disclosure-avoidance discipline, used by /disclosure-check / /replication-package / /data-management-plan (v2.0) + @@ -7087,9 +7163,9 @@

    -Session log reminder +Session log auto-writer Stop (command) -.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py +.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py — auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set (no longer merely a reminder) Desktop notification @@ -7099,7 +7175,7 @@

    Context state capture PreCompact (command) -.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py +.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py — DRAFT-block default is ON Context restoration @@ -7112,9 +7188,14 @@

    -Verification reminder -PostToolUse[Write|Edit] (command) -.claude/hooks/verify-reminder.py +Git guardrails +PreToolUse (command) +.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py — blocks reset --hard / clean -f / push --force / add -A + + +Claim reconcile +PostToolUse (command) +.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py — flags stale numeric claims when scripts change @@ -7205,7 +7286,7 @@

    8.5.3 Hooks Not Firing

    -

    Symptom: No context warnings, no verification reminders.

    +

    Symptom: No context warnings, no auto-written session log, no git guardrails firing.

    Fix: 1. Check hooks are configured: cat .claude/settings.json | grep hooks 2. Ensure Python 3 is available: which python3 3. Check hook file permissions: ls -la .claude/hooks/

    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd index 5078075f1..823e591cc 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Claude Code runs on your computer with full access to your file system, terminal | Run shell commands | Compile LaTeX, run R scripts, render Quarto --- directly | | Access git history | Commits, PRs, branches --- all from the conversation | | Persistent memory | CLAUDE.md + MEMORY.md survive across sessions | -| Orchestrator pattern | Specific skills (`/qa-quarto`, `/review-paper --adversarial`, `/create-lecture`, …) run a 6-step verify-review-fix-score loop internally | +| Orchestrator runtime | Specific skills (`/qa-quarto`, `/review-paper --adversarial`, `/create-lecture`, …) run a real fan-out → reduce → judge → loop-until-dry runtime internally | | Multi-agent workflows | 18 specialized agents for proofreading, layout, pedagogy, code review, fact-checking, AI-voice auditing, simulation + R-package review | | Quality review | Advisory scoring inside `/commit` (halt + ask to override); targets: 80 commit, 90 PR, 95 excellence | | CLI/headless mode | Run from scripts: `claude -p "compile all lectures"` | @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ APPROVED NEEDS WORK | (Round 2) | +----+----------+ | - ... (up to 5 rounds) + ... (loop-until-dry: converge after 2 dry rounds; 5-round cap is a fallback) ``` **Why it works:** The critic can't fix files (read-only), so it has no incentive to downplay issues. The fixer can't approve itself (the critic re-audits). This prevents the common failure of Claude saying "looks good" about its own work. @@ -431,17 +431,17 @@ The critic-fixer loop above is text-only — it compares LaTeX source to Quarto Optional, not required: `/qa-quarto` and `/visual-audit` already catch most issues without it. Treat Computer Use as an extra rung when text-level audits aren't enough (e.g., suspecting a TikZ render glitch that the source code looks fine for). ::: -## The Orchestrator: A Pattern, Not a Daemon +## The Orchestrator: A Runtime, Not a Daemon Individual agents are specialists. Skills like `/slide-excellence` and `/qa-quarto` coordinate a few agents for specific tasks. In day-to-day work, you don't have to think about which agents to run — the right skill runs the right agents for you. -The **orchestrator protocol** (`.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md`) defines the 6-step loop (IMPLEMENT → VERIFY → REVIEW → FIX → RE-VERIFY → SCORE) that skills implement internally. It is **not** a runtime daemon: plan approval does NOT auto-trigger this loop. You invoke a skill (e.g., `/create-lecture`, `/qa-quarto`, `/review-paper --adversarial`) and the skill runs the pattern within its own scope. +The **orchestrator protocol** (`.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md`) is a **real runtime**, built on the `Task` subagent primitive every Claude Code session has: skills fan out to forked reviewers, reduce their typed findings through a deterministic gate, judge with a post-judge hallucination guard, and loop until dry. What is **not** automatic is the *trigger*: nothing launches this loop on its own, and there is no background daemon — plan approval does NOT auto-trigger it. You invoke a skill (e.g., `/create-lecture`, `/qa-quarto`, `/review-paper --adversarial`) and the skill runs the runtime within its own scope. The human is the auditor of the disagreements the loop surfaces; this is explicitly not an autonomous daemon. What's mechanically implemented today: `/commit` (verifier + quality_score), `/qa-quarto` (critic-fixer loop), `/review-paper --adversarial` (critic-fixer loop), `/slide-excellence` (multi-agent fanout), `/review-paper --peer` (editor + 2 referees + cross-artifact). See [Pattern 2](#pattern-2-contractor-mode-orchestrator) for the complete workflow. ## Quality Review: The 80/90/95 System {#sec-quality} -The [quality-gates rule](#sec-blocks) (`quality-gates.md`) defines scoring thresholds that `/commit` and review skills apply. Thresholds are **advisory** — enforced inside specific skills, not by a repo-wide git pre-commit hook. A direct `git commit` bypasses the review. Every file gets a quality score from 0 to 100: +The [quality-gates rule](#sec-blocks) (`quality-gates.md`) defines scoring thresholds that `/commit` and review skills apply. Thresholds are **advisory** — enforced inside specific skills **and**, once you run `./scripts/install-hooks.sh`, by a real git pre-commit hook (`.githooks/pre-commit`) that runs the surface-sync + quality (≥80) gates on every commit. Bypass it sparingly with `SKIP_QUALITY_GATE=1` or `--no-verify`. Every file gets a quality score from 0 to 100: | Score | Threshold | Meaning | Action | |-------|-----------|---------|--------| @@ -764,22 +764,22 @@ Claude Code also offers experimental **Agent Teams** --- multiple independent se **Retirement notice:** Sonnet 4 and the original Opus 4 retire on **2026-06-15**. If your environment pins one of these (`ANTHROPIC_MODEL` env, hard-coded model IDs in CI, etc.), migrate before then. See [TROUBLESHOOTING.md](../TROUBLESHOOTING.md) for the migration checklist. ::: -Not all agents need the same model. Each agent file has a `model:` field in its YAML frontmatter. By default, all agents use `model: inherit` (they use whatever model your main session runs). But you can customize this to optimize cost: +Not all agents need the same model. Each agent file has a `model:` field in its YAML frontmatter. In v2.0 all 18 agents are **pinned** to an explicit model + effort tier (no longer `inherit`), following the 70/20/10 routing pattern below. You can re-tune any agent to optimize cost: | Task Type | Recommended Model | Why | Examples | |-----------|-------------------|-----|----------| | Complex translation | `model: opus` | Needs deep understanding of both formats | beamer-translator, quarto-critic | | Fast, constrained work | `model: sonnet` | Speed matters more than depth | r-reviewer, quarto-fixer | -| Default | `model: inherit` | Uses whatever the main session runs | proofreader, slide-auditor | +| Mechanical default | `model: haiku` | Bounded, fast work | proofreader, slide-auditor | -**The principle:** Use Opus for tasks that require holding two large documents in mind simultaneously (translation, adversarial comparison). Use Sonnet for tasks with clear, bounded scope (fix these 12 issues, check this R script). Let everything else inherit. +**The principle:** Use Opus for tasks that require holding two large documents in mind simultaneously (translation, adversarial comparison). Use Sonnet for tasks with clear, bounded scope (fix these 12 issues, check this R script). Use Haiku for mechanical work. In v2.0 every agent is pinned explicitly rather than inheriting — see `agent-fleet.md` for the full fleet + tiers. To change an agent's model, edit its YAML frontmatter: ```yaml --- name: quarto-critic -model: opus # was: inherit +model: opus # pinned per agent-fleet.md (v2.0: no agent inherits) --- ``` @@ -1085,11 +1085,11 @@ While MEMORY.md stores long-lived project facts, **plans** store task-specific s See Pattern 1 in [Workflow Patterns](#sec-patterns) for the full protocol. -### Session Logs --- Why-Not-Just-What History (with Automated Reminders) +### Session Logs --- Why-Not-Just-What History (auto-written) Git commits record what changed, but not *why*. Session logs fill this gap. Claude writes to `quality_reports/session_logs/` at three points: right after plan approval, incrementally during implementation (as decisions happen), and at session end. This means the log captures reasoning *as it happens*, before auto-compression can discard it. -Because relying on instructions alone is fragile (Claude forgets during long sessions), a **Stop hook** (`.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py`) fires after every response. It tracks how many responses have passed since the session log was last updated. After a threshold, it blocks Claude from stopping until the log is current. This turns a best practice into an enforced behavior. +Because relying on instructions alone is fragile (Claude forgets during long sessions), a **Stop hook** (`.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py`) fires after every response. In v2.0 it no longer merely nags — it **auto-writes the session log** for every meaningful change-set, so the why-history is captured without depending on Claude remembering to do it. New sessions can read these logs to understand not just the current state of the project, but the reasoning behind it. See Pattern 1 in [Workflow Patterns](#sec-patterns) for the full protocol. @@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ The first four layers are your safety net. Anything written to disk survives ind The session log reminder above is one example of a broader pattern: using **hooks** to enforce rules that Claude might otherwise forget during long sessions. Rules live in context and can be compressed away. Hooks live in `.claude/settings.json` and fire every time, regardless of context state. -The template includes hooks for logging, notifications, and context survival: +The template includes 7 hooks for logging, notifications, context survival, and git safety (plus a real git pre-commit hook, `.githooks/pre-commit`, installed via `./scripts/install-hooks.sh`): | Hook | Event | What It Does | |------|-------|-------------| @@ -1120,7 +1120,8 @@ The template includes hooks for logging, notifications, and context survival: | Context state capture | `PreCompact` | Saves plan state before auto-compaction | | Context restoration | `SessionStart[compact|resume]` | Restores context after compaction or resume | | Context monitor | `PostToolUse[Bash|Task]` | Progressive warnings at 40%/55%/65%/80%/90% context | -| Verification reminder | `PostToolUse[Write|Edit]` | Reminds to compile/render before marking done | +| Git guardrails | `PreToolUse[Bash]` | Blocks destructive git (`reset --hard`, `clean -f`, `push --force`, `add -A`) | +| Claim reconcile | `PostToolUse[Edit|Write]` | Flags stale numeric claims when analysis scripts change | Verification and Beamer-Quarto sync are enforced via auto-loaded rules, which are the right tool for nuanced judgment. Hooks are reserved for enforcement that *must* survive context compression. @@ -1336,9 +1337,10 @@ User: "Translate Lecture 5 to Quarto" Step 6: SCORE | Apply quality-gates rubric | - +-- Score >= 80? + +-- Converged? (a round adds 0 new Critical/Major) YES -> Present summary to user - NO -> Loop to Step 3 (max 5 rounds) + NO -> Loop to Step 3 in fresh context + (loop-until-dry; 5-round cap is a fallback only) ``` ### Agent Selection @@ -1363,7 +1365,7 @@ Sometimes you do not want to approve the final result --- you just want it done: > "Translate Lecture 5 to Quarto. Just do it." -In this mode, the orchestrator still runs the full verify-review-fix loop (quality is non-negotiable), but skips the final approval pause and auto-commits if the score is 80 or above. It still presents the summary so you can see what was done. +In this mode, the orchestrator still runs the full fan-out → reduce → judge → loop-until-dry runtime (quality is non-negotiable) and skips the final approval pause for the current skill. It does **not** auto-commit: "just do it" is never commit authorization — commits require an explicit `/commit` or unambiguous request. It still presents the summary so you can see what was done. ### Relationship to Existing Skills @@ -1373,7 +1375,7 @@ The orchestrator does NOT replace skills. It coordinates them: - `/slide-excellence` remains available for comprehensive multi-agent review - `/create-lecture` remains available as a guided creation workflow -The difference: when you invoke a skill directly, it runs its specific workflow. When the orchestrator is active, it decides which agents to invoke based on context. The orchestrator is the default; skills are for targeted use. +The difference: when you invoke a skill directly, it runs its specific workflow. The orchestrator runtime lives *inside* each skill — there is no repo-wide orchestrator that activates on its own or chains skills together. A skill is always user- or skill-initiated; nothing fires the runtime unattended. ::: {.callout-tip collapse="true"} ## When to Use Skills vs. the Orchestrator @@ -1432,7 +1434,7 @@ Translation preserves all content while adapting format, converting TikZ to SVG +-- Critic: finds issues +-- Fixer: applies fixes +-- Critic: re-audits - +-- ... (until APPROVED or 5 rounds) + +-- ... (loop-until-dry: converge after 2 dry rounds; 5-round cap is a fallback) ``` ## Pattern 5: Replication-First Coding {#pattern-5-replication-first-coding} @@ -2385,7 +2387,7 @@ The template includes matching LaTeX and Quarto palettes. To customize: ## Step 4: Creating Custom Skills {#sec-create-skills} -The guide includes 24 [skills](#skills---reusable-slash-commands) for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own. +The guide includes 50 [skills](#skills---reusable-slash-commands) for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own. ### When to Create a Skill @@ -2594,7 +2596,7 @@ Cross-references in-text citations against bibliography entries. Identifies miss ::: {.callout-tip} ## Real Example: /deep-audit Was Created with /learn -The `/deep-audit` skill was itself extracted from a repeating workflow using `/learn`. After running 7 rounds of manual consistency audits --- each time launching 4 parallel agents to check guide accuracy, hook code quality, skills/rules consistency, and cross-document counts --- the pattern was codified into a skill. Now `/deep-audit` launches those same 4 agents, triages findings, applies fixes, and loops until clean (max 5 rounds). It also encodes a table of known bug patterns from past audits so future rounds catch regressions faster. +The `/deep-audit` skill was itself extracted from a repeating workflow using `/learn`. After running 7 rounds of manual consistency audits --- each time launching 4 parallel agents to check guide accuracy, hook code quality, skills/rules consistency, and cross-document counts --- the pattern was codified into a skill. Now `/deep-audit` launches those same 4 agents, triages findings, applies fixes, and loops until clean (loop-until-dry: converges after 2 dry rounds, with a fallback cap). It also encodes a table of known bug patterns from past audits so future rounds catch regressions faster. This is the `/learn` lifecycle in action: discover a repeating workflow → extract it → never repeat the manual steps again. ::: @@ -2608,7 +2610,7 @@ This is the `/learn` lifecycle in action: discover a repeating workflow → extr 5. **Verify everything.** The verification rule exists for a reason. Never skip compilation or rendering checks. 6. **Session logs matter.** Document design decisions, not just what changed. Future-you will thank present-you. 7. **Devil's Advocate early.** Challenge slide structure before you've built 50 slides on a shaky foundation. -8. **Progressive disclosure.** Start with CLAUDE.md + 2--3 rules. Add more as your workflow matures. Newcomers should not face 24 rules on day one. +8. **Progressive disclosure.** Start with CLAUDE.md + 2--3 rules. Add more as your workflow matures. Newcomers should not face all 30 rules on day one. 9. **Use `CLAUDE.local.md` for personal overrides.** This file is automatically gitignored and loaded alongside `CLAUDE.md`. Put machine-specific paths, personal preferences, and local tool versions here --- they won't pollute the shared repo. ::: {.callout-note collapse="true"} @@ -2683,13 +2685,25 @@ Claude Code supports **plugins** --- bundled collections of skills, agents, hook | `/checkpoint` | `.claude/skills/checkpoint/` | Structured session-handoff snapshot — companion to narrative session logs (v1.8.0) | | `/preregister` | `.claude/skills/preregister/` | Generate a preregistration document (OSF / AsPredicted / AEA RCT Registry) from a research spec (v1.8.0) | | `/humanize` | `.claude/skills/humanize/` | Detect AI-voice tells in academic prose (read-only audit; no rewrite) (v1.9.0) | -| `/prompt` | `.claude/skills/prompt/` | Reformat informal input into a structured six-section prompt, then execute (v1.9.0; ported from Blattman v2.1 with stripping) | -| `/prompt-only` | `.claude/skills/prompt-only/` | Same formatting as `/prompt` but emits the prompt as a reusable artifact (no execution) (v1.9.0) | | `/compress-session` | `.claude/skills/compress-session/` | Distil the current session into a structured note (decisions, files, open questions, next actions, discarded-as-noise) before auto-compaction (v1.9.0) | | `/promote-memory` | `.claude/skills/promote-memory/` | Five-critic council that votes on whether candidate `[LEARN]` entries should be promoted from personal-memory.md to MEMORY.md (v1.9.0) | | `/stata-replication` | `.claude/skills/stata-replication/` | End-to-end Stata pipeline scaffold + execution via the `stata-mcp` MCP server (mirrors `/data-analysis` for R-first projects; v1.9.0) | | `/simulation-study` | `.claude/skills/simulation-study/` | Reproducible Monte Carlo study — DGP, estimator grid, seeded reps, bias/RMSE/coverage/size/power with Monte Carlo SEs (v1.10.0) | | `/r-package-check` | `.claude/skills/r-package-check/` | R package release gate — `devtools::document()` + tests + `R CMD check --as-cran` + CRAN-policy triage (v1.10.0) | +| `/replication-package` | `.claude/skills/replication-package/` | Assemble a submission-ready DCAS / openICPSR replication package; calls `/audit-reproducibility` and blocks on FAIL (v2.0) | +| `/capture-environment` | `.claude/skills/capture-environment/` | Snapshot the computational environment (renv.lock / sessionInfo / requirements.txt / uv.lock + optional Dockerfile + seeds) (v2.0) | +| `/did-event-study` | `.claude/skills/did-event-study/` | Staggered DiD / event-study wrapper over canonical packages (Callaway–Sant'Anna `did`, `fixest::sunab`, HonestDiD; Stata `csdid`/`eventstudyinteract`/`honestdid`) (v2.0) | +| `/power-analysis` | `.claude/skills/power-analysis/` | Power / required-N / MDE for study design (RCT, clustered/ICC, multi-arm, or simulation-based) + a methods paragraph for `/preregister` (v2.0) | +| `/disclosure-check` | `.claude/skills/disclosure-check/` | Pre-screen restricted-data outputs for SDL violations (small cells, dominance, PII); gates on any CRITICAL (v2.0) | +| `/grant-proposal` | `.claude/skills/grant-proposal/` | Scaffold a grant proposal (NSF/NIH/ERC/foundation) from an `/interview-me` spec; delegates DMP + facilities; aims↔methods↔budget coherence pass (v2.0) | +| `/data-management-plan` | `.claude/skills/data-management-plan/` | Draft a funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF/NIH 2023/ERC/Horizon) (v2.0) | +| `/coauthor-brief` | `.claude/skills/coauthor-brief/` | Generate a collaborator handoff brief: git delta, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data steps (v2.0) | +| `/triage-inbox` | `.claude/skills/triage-inbox/` | Triage academic email + calendar (Gmail/Calendar MCP) into a prioritized digest + referee-obligations tracker; human-gated actions only (v2.0) | +| `/syllabus` | `.claude/skills/syllabus/` | Build a course syllabus from a topic/reading list (schedule, objectives, assessment + rubric, per-week `/create-lecture` work-list) (v2.0) | +| `/teach-from-paper` | `.claude/skills/teach-from-paper/` | Turn a paper into a lecture outline, teachable results, slide skeleton (→ `/create-lecture`), discussion questions, exercise brief (v2.0) | +| `/respond-to-eval` | `.claude/skills/respond-to-eval/` | Turn student course evaluations into a classified teaching-improvement plan (Keep/Change/Investigate/Out-of-scope) (v2.0) | +| `/scaffold-exercises` | `.claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/` | Scaffold a graded problem set (analytical/empirical/coding) with worked solutions; clean student set + separate solution key (v2.0) | +| `/new-skill` | `.claude/skills/new-skill/` | Scaffold a convention-compliant skill (interview → write `SKILL.md` with gate-passing frontmatter) (v2.0) | ## All Rules @@ -2698,9 +2712,10 @@ Claude Code supports **plugins** --- bundled collections of skills, agents, hook | Rule | File | Purpose | |------|------|---------| | Plan-First Workflow | `plan-first-workflow.md` | Plan mode + context preservation | -| Orchestrator Protocol | `orchestrator-protocol.md` | Contractor mode loop | +| Orchestrator Protocol | `orchestrator-protocol.md` | Review runtime: fan-out → reduce → judge (+ hallucination gate) → loop-until-dry (goal-first / gate-enforced; augments contractor mode) | | Session Logging | `session-logging.md` | Three logging triggers | | Meta-Governance | `meta-governance.md` | Template vs working project distinctions | +| Prompt Shaping | `prompt-shaping.md` | Ambient prompt-shaping habit (replaces the retired `/prompt` and `/prompt-only` skills) | **Path-scoped** (load only when working on matching files): @@ -2730,17 +2745,19 @@ Claude Code supports **plugins** --- bundled collections of skills, agents, hook | Stata Code Conventions | `stata-code-conventions.md` | `**/*.do`, `scripts/stata/**` — header scaffold, numbered pipeline, esttab tables, clustering discipline, AEA compliance (v1.9.0) | | Simulation Conventions | `simulation-conventions.md` | `**/*simulation*.R`, `**/*_sim.R`, `explorations/**` — Monte Carlo discipline: DGP/estimand, L'Ecuyer seeding, Monte Carlo SE, coverage-vs-truth, raw-result storage (v1.10.0) | | R Package Conventions | `r-package-conventions.md` | `R/**`, `tests/**`, `DESCRIPTION`, `NAMESPACE`, `man/**` — package-source standards: no `library()` in `R/`, roxygen NAMESPACE, Imports/Suggests, testthat 3e, CRAN policy (v1.10.0) | +| Confidential Data | `confidential-data.md` | restricted/confidential data paths — no raw confidential data in git, disclosure-avoidance discipline, used by `/disclosure-check` / `/replication-package` / `/data-management-plan` (v2.0) | ## Hooks | Hook | Type | Configuration | |------|------|--------------| -| Session log reminder | Stop (command) | `.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py` | +| Session log auto-writer | Stop (command) | `.claude/hooks/log-reminder.py` — auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set (no longer merely a reminder) | | Desktop notification | Notification (command) | `.claude/hooks/notify.sh` | -| Context state capture | PreCompact (command) | `.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py` | +| Context state capture | PreCompact (command) | `.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py` — DRAFT-block default is ON | | Context restoration | SessionStart[compact\|resume] (command) | `.claude/hooks/post-compact-restore.py` | | Context monitor | PostToolUse[Bash\|Task] (command) | `.claude/hooks/context-monitor.py` | -| Verification reminder | PostToolUse[Write\|Edit] (command) | `.claude/hooks/verify-reminder.py` | +| Git guardrails | PreToolUse (command) | `.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py` — blocks `reset --hard` / `clean -f` / `push --force` / `add -A` | +| Claim reconcile | PostToolUse (command) | `.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py` — flags stale numeric claims when scripts change | **Additional hook events** available in Claude Code (not used in this template but available for custom hooks): @@ -2780,7 +2797,7 @@ Claude Code supports **plugins** --- bundled collections of skills, agents, hook ### Hooks Not Firing -**Symptom:** No context warnings, no verification reminders. +**Symptom:** No context warnings, no auto-written session log, no git guardrails firing. **Fix:** 1. Check hooks are configured: `cat .claude/settings.json | grep hooks` From edd4d83fc0ca58941a731311141574a1bfa4a25d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 12:25:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 06/19] fix(v2.0): address PR #130 review (Copilot + Codex) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - statusline.sh: hash CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR / git-toplevel (not raw cwd) so the context-% badge resolves the same sessions folder context-monitor.py writes to — fixes the badge vanishing in subdirectories (Copilot) - git-guardrails.py: scan MultiEdit's edits[*].new_string list, not just content/new_string — closes the path-leak miss on MultiEdit (Copilot) - nightly-repro-check.sh: print the real path (quality_reports/passports/) in the empty-state message (Copilot) - .githooks/pre-commit: stash unstaged *tracked* changes (--keep-index, trap-restored) so the gate validates the STAGED index, not the working tree — fixes partial-staging false-pass/false-block (Codex P2). Untracked files left in place; stash failure never blocks. --- .claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py | 15 +++++++++++++-- .claude/scripts/statusline.sh | 6 +++++- .githooks/pre-commit | 14 ++++++++++++++ scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh | 2 +- 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py b/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py index ed9288bac..c1a87fcff 100644 --- a/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py +++ b/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py @@ -89,8 +89,18 @@ def main() -> int: fp = ti.get("file_path", "") or "" if Path(fp).suffix not in CODE_EXT: return 0 - content = ti.get("content") or ti.get("new_string") or "" - if isinstance(content, str): + # Collect every string that becomes file content: Write.content, + # Edit.new_string, and EACH MultiEdit edit's new_string (a list). + candidates = [] + for k in ("content", "new_string"): + v = ti.get(k) + if isinstance(v, str): + candidates.append(v) + for e in ti.get("edits", []) or []: + v = (e or {}).get("new_string") + if isinstance(v, str): + candidates.append(v) + for content in candidates: m = HARDCODED_PATH.search(content) if m: msg = (f"Hardcoded machine path '{m.group(0)}' in {Path(fp).name} " @@ -100,6 +110,7 @@ def main() -> int: deny(f"Blocked (CLAUDE_STRICT_PATHS=1): {msg}") else: sys.stderr.write(f"[git-guardrails] WARNING: {msg}\n") + break # one finding per call is enough return 0 return 0 diff --git a/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh b/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh index 33724a46b..3bcacdd95 100755 --- a/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh +++ b/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh @@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ fi # Context % — best-effort, persisted by context-monitor.py under the # session dir keyed by md5(project_dir)[:8]. ctx="" -hash="$(printf '%s' "$cwd" | python3 -c 'import sys,hashlib; print(hashlib.md5(sys.stdin.read().encode()).hexdigest()[:8])' 2>/dev/null)" +# Hash the SAME key context-monitor.py writes under: CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR if set, +# else the git toplevel (the project root) — NOT the raw cwd, which differs in +# a subdirectory and would point at the wrong sessions folder. +proj="${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-$(git -C "$cwd" rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || printf '%s' "$cwd")}" +hash="$(printf '%s' "$proj" | python3 -c 'import sys,hashlib; print(hashlib.md5(sys.stdin.read().encode()).hexdigest()[:8])' 2>/dev/null)" pct_file="$HOME/.claude/sessions/${hash}/context-pct.txt" [ -f "$pct_file" ] && ctx="ctx $(cat "$pct_file" 2>/dev/null)%" set -e diff --git a/.githooks/pre-commit b/.githooks/pre-commit index 47b803f53..a77407568 100755 --- a/.githooks/pre-commit +++ b/.githooks/pre-commit @@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)" || { } cd "$REPO_ROOT" || exit 2 +# Validate the STAGED index, not the working tree: stash unstaged *tracked* +# changes so what we check on disk is exactly what will be committed. Without +# this, staging a stale README while the corrected version sits unstaged would +# pass the gate (Codex review, PR #130). Untracked files are intentionally NOT +# stashed (avoids slow/surprising stashes of large data dirs). A trap restores +# on any exit; a stash failure never blocks the commit. +_STASHED=0 +if ! git diff --quiet 2>/dev/null; then + if git stash push --keep-index --quiet --message "pre-commit-gate" 2>/dev/null; then + _STASHED=1 + trap '[ "$_STASHED" = "1" ] && git stash pop --quiet 2>/dev/null || true' EXIT + fi +fi + FAIL=0 echo "── pre-commit: surface-sync gates ──" diff --git a/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh b/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh index aa65f4de6..6b447a56d 100755 --- a/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh +++ b/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import sys, re, pathlib, datetime root = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]) pdir = root / "quality_reports" / "passports" if not pdir.is_dir(): - print("no passports/ — nothing to check"); sys.exit(0) + print("no quality_reports/passports/ — nothing to check"); sys.exit(0) def parse_iso(s): s = s.strip().strip('"').strip("'").replace("Z", "+00:00") From 572cc2f0efb4f4bdb0eaafb2e88a78fe274b4ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 13:17:26 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 07/19] feat(v2.0): flagship /did-event-study (Sant'Anna standard) + did-conventions rule; adversarial-hardening defect fixes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit DiD flagship (grounded ONLY in Pedro Sant'Anna's PUBLIC materials — packages, JEL guide, What's-Trending, did-resources; vault kept private): - Rewrote /did-event-study into a thin orchestrator over the canonical packages (did/DRDID/didFF/contdid; Stata csdid/drdid) — never reimplements an estimator. 8-phase practitioner workflow with exact API (att_gt/aggte/ggdid, drdid estMethod="imp", contdid), DR default, control-group rule, uniform-band inference, mandatory pre-trend/HonestDiD/didFF diagnostics, replicate-and-verify-to-1e-6, and a GRADED credibility verdict (actor→critic, after the Netflix causal-inference pattern). - New rule did-conventions.md (rules 30→31) encoding his HARD standards + the pitfalls he warns against (no TWFE pre-test, no already-treated controls, no over-reading pre-trends, functional-form matters, debug-the-wrapper-first). - Opinionated defaults flagged [CONFIRM-PEDRO] inline (TWFE framing, HonestDiD Mbar vs M, staggered-pkg default, control-group default, few-cluster software, public URLs) — nothing opinionated ships unconfirmed. Adversarial-hardening fixes (from the find→verify→synthesize audit; 13 confirmed, 28% noise dropped): - CRITICAL .githooks/pre-commit: the stash --keep-index/pop round-trip could write conflict markers into a file with BOTH staged+unstaged changes (git add -p). Now skips the stash on same-file overlap (validates worktree + warns), keeps it for different-files, and makes pop loud+recoverable. - git-guardrails: --force(?![\w-]) so --force-with-lease (the safe alternative) is ALLOWED; clean guard now catches --force / -d -f / later-token -f. - claim-reconcile: match/throttle on project-relative path, not basename. - validate-setup.sh: warn if .githooks/pre-commit lost its exec bit or core.hooksPath isn't set (the gate going silently dark). - power-analysis: Bonferroni divisor = family size (m=K-1 vs K(K-1)/2). guide: orchestrator ~93 lines, +prompt-shaping in always-on tree, 26 path-scoped, abstract line-count framing. All gates green (50 skills / 18 agents / 31 rules / 7 hooks); guide re-rendered. --- .claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py | 8 +- .claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py | 6 +- .claude/rules/did-conventions.md | 72 ++++++++ .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md | 236 ++++++++++++------------ .claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md | 2 +- .githooks/pre-commit | 24 ++- README.md | 3 +- docs/index.html | 4 +- docs/workflow-guide.html | 13 +- guide/workflow-guide.html | 13 +- guide/workflow-guide.qmd | 13 +- scripts/validate-setup.sh | 25 +++ 12 files changed, 267 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/rules/did-conventions.md diff --git a/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py b/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py index cdd8d084d..3f8642886 100644 --- a/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py +++ b/.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py @@ -65,7 +65,13 @@ def main() -> int: if not passports: return 0 # no claims tracked → nothing to reconcile - changed = Path(fp).name + # Match + throttle on the project-relative PATH, not the bare basename — + # otherwise scripts/R/results.rds and scripts/stata/results.rds throttle + # each other, and clean.R spuriously matches data_clean.R. + try: + changed = str(Path(fp).resolve().relative_to(Path(project_dir).resolve())) + except Exception: + changed = Path(fp).name # Throttle: one nudge per changed file per THROTTLE_S. st_path = state_dir() / "claim-reconcile-state.json" diff --git a/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py b/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py index c1a87fcff..ee20b0490 100644 --- a/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py +++ b/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py @@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ (re.compile(r"\bgit\s+reset\s+--hard\b"), "git reset --hard discards uncommitted work irrecoverably.", "Use `git stash` (recoverable) or reset specific paths."), - (re.compile(r"\bgit\s+clean\s+-[a-z]*f"), - "git clean -f deletes UNTRACKED files — including data not yet committed.", + (re.compile(r"\bgit\s+clean\b.*(--force\b|(? (the JEL Practitioner's Guide, *What's Trending*, the course, all packages). **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: confirm public links.]** diff --git a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md index 1132bbbc5..7924878b2 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md @@ -1,144 +1,144 @@ --- name: did-event-study -description: Thin wrapper that runs a staggered difference-in-differences / event-study using canonical, maintained packages and surfaces their native diagnostics — it never reimplements an estimator. R via `did::att_gt`+`aggte` (Callaway–Sant'Anna), `fixest::sunab` (Sun–Abraham), and `HonestDiD` (Rambachan–Roth) for parallel-trends sensitivity; Stata via `csdid` / `eventstudyinteract` / `honestdid`. Use when the user says "run a staggered DiD", "event-study", "Callaway Sant'Anna", "Sun Abraham", "group-time ATT", "pre-trends test", "HonestDiD", or "honest parallel trends". -argument-hint: "[panel data path] [--outcome Y --unit id --time t --gvar first_treat] [--control never|notyet]" +description: Run a staggered difference-in-differences / event-study analysis to the Sant'Anna practitioner standard — drives the canonical packages (R `did`/`DRDID`/`didFF`/`contdid`; Stata `csdid`/`drdid`), enforces the doubly-robust default, a mandatory diagnostic + sensitivity suite, uniform-band inference, replicate-and-verify-against-source discipline, and ends in a graded credibility verdict. Use when user says "run a DiD", "event study", "staggered adoption", "Callaway Sant'Anna", "att_gt", "csdid", "did with multiple periods", or points at panel data with a treatment-timing variable. NEVER reimplements an estimator. +argument-hint: "[data path] [--outcome --unit --time --gvar] [--control nevertreated|notyettreated] [--continuous] [--stata]" allowed-tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "Write", "Bash"] effort: high --- -# `/did-event-study` — Staggered DiD / Event-Study (thin wrapper) +# /did-event-study — DiD / event study, Sant'Anna practitioner standard -Run a staggered-adoption DiD / event-study by **calling a canonical package**, then surface that package's **native diagnostics** verbatim. This is a *proof-of-concept that launders no authority*: every number traces to a maintained estimator, and the skill writes back the exact package calls so the user owns the code. +This is a **thin orchestrator over the canonical packages** — it never reimplements an estimator. It walks the practitioner workflow from *Difference-in-Differences with Multiple Time Periods* (Callaway & Sant'Anna 2021), the *Doubly Robust DiD* estimators (Sant'Anna & Zhao 2020), and the *"What's Trending in DiD?"* synthesis (Roth, Sant'Anna, Bilinski & Poe 2023), and it follows the **replicate-and-verify-against-source** discipline. -**Input:** `$ARGUMENTS` — a panel-data path (`.csv` / `.rds` / `.dta`) plus the column roles (`--outcome`, `--unit`, `--time`, `--gvar` = first-treated period, `0`/`Inf` for never-treated), optional `--covariates`, and the contested `--control` choice (`never` vs `notyet`). +> **Actor → Critic.** The skill is the *Actor*: it runs your packages and the diagnostics. It then puts on the *Critic* hat for **Phase 8 — a graded credibility verdict**, never a binary "passes." A mismatch with a pre-test is *evidence on credibility*, not a gate. (This actor/critic + mandatory-diagnostic + graded-credibility shape mirrors `.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md` and the verification posture of `audit-reproducibility`.) -**Core principle:** ONE estimator family per run, run *correctly*, beats a five-estimator fleet run carelessly. The skill does not hand-roll a TWFE event-study, a fake placebo, or a bespoke aggregation — those are exactly the steps the canonical packages exist to get right. +> **Read first:** [`.claude/rules/did-conventions.md`](../../rules/did-conventions.md) — the HARD standards this skill enforces (data coding, DR default, control group, inference, aggregation, verification, and the pitfalls to avoid). Then the canonical resources in §Resources. + +Items marked **[CONFIRM-PEDRO]** are opinionated defaults to sign off before they ship. ## When to use -- You have **panel/repeated-cross-section data with staggered treatment timing** and want group-time ATTs and an event-study aggregation. -- You want the **native pre-trends test and event-study plot** from `did`/`fixest`, not a reimplementation. -- You want **HonestDiD (Rambachan–Roth) sensitivity** — the breakdown `M` / relative-magnitudes bound for the parallel-trends assumption. -- You're scoping the **never-treated vs not-yet-treated comparison-group** decision and want the contrast staged explicitly (the choice the EXPLAINED disposition in [`audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) was built around). +- Staggered or 2×T adoption with panel or repeated cross-sections; a binary absorbing treatment, or a **continuous dose**. +- Any time someone reaches for a TWFE event study under staggered timing — route here instead. ## When NOT to use -- **2×2 (single treatment period, two groups).** A plain `feols(y ~ treat | unit + time)` is the right tool — no staggering, no aggregation needed. -- **You need the finite-sample properties of an estimator** (bias / coverage under a known DGP) — that's [`/simulation-study`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md), not a single empirical run. -- **Continuous / dose treatment, IV-DiD, or non-absorbing treatment.** These need a different canonical package (e.g. `did_multiplegt_dyn`); this skill covers the absorbing-treatment, binary case. - ---- - -## Workflow Phases - -### Phase 0: Pre-flight — pin the design, warn on the contested choice +- A single 2×2 with one pre / one post and no covariates is a one-liner — still use `DRDID::drdid()`, but you don't need the full pipeline. +- Reversible / switching treatments (units turning on **and** off): these packages assume absorbing treatment. Stop and reconsider the design. + +## Workflow (fixed order) + +### Phase 0 — Reproducibility setup (gate before any estimation) +- `set.seed(...)` is **REQUIRED** — all inference is bootstrap-based. (The JEL replication uses a fixed seed; pick one and pin it.) +- Pin software (`renv::restore(prompt = FALSE)`), use `here::here()` for paths (no hard-coded machine paths — the `git-guardrails` hook blocks them in `.R`/`.do`), one master script runs the pipeline end-to-end. +- Resolve namespace conflicts explicitly (`conflicted::conflict_prefer("select","dplyr")`, `…("filter","dplyr")`). + +### Phase 1 — Design / estimand +- Reshape to **LONG**: one row per unit-period (`tidyr::pivot_longer`). +- Required columns: `yname` (outcome), `tname` (time), `idname` (**time-invariant, numeric** unit id), `gname` (group = **first period treated**; **never-treated coded EXACTLY `0`**). +- Tabulate the roll-out (share of units/population by cohort) to make the design explicit: **2×2 → 2×T → staggered G×T**. +- Pick the estimand up front. The recommended single summary is the **Overall ATT from `aggte(type = "group")`**; dynamics via `type = "dynamic"`. + +### Phase 2 — Estimator selection +Follow the decision logic in §Estimator selection. Output: which estimator, `est_method`/`estMethod`, `control_group`, `panel` vs RC, covariates yes/no. + +### Phase 3 — Estimation (drive the package; do not reimplement) +- **2×2 (one pre / one post):** + `DRDID::drdid(yname, tname, idname, dname, xformla = ~covs, data, panel = TRUE, estMethod = "imp")` → `summary()`. + IPW-only: `DRDID::ipwdid(..., normalized = TRUE)`; OR-only: `DRDID::ordid(...)`. +- **Staggered / multi-period (G×T or 2×T):** + ```r + out <- did::att_gt( + yname, tname, idname, gname, + xformla = NULL, # or ~ x1 + x2 (time-invariant / baseline covariates) + data = mydata, + panel = TRUE, # FALSE for repeated cross-sections (idname ignored) + control_group = "notyettreated",# staggered; "nevertreated" for a clean 2×T design + est_method = "dr", # doubly robust DEFAULT (only used when xformla is set) + base_period = "universal", # REQUIRED for a readable event study + HonestDiD + bstrap = TRUE, cband = TRUE, biters = 1000, # publication: biters = 25000 + clustervars = NULL, # ≤ 2, one must equal idname + weightsname = NULL # design-relevant weights if any + ) + ``` + `att_gt` builds every `ATT(g,t)` from a clean `drdid` 2×2 — that is *why* it avoids the forbidden already-treated-as-control comparisons that bias TWFE. +- **TWFE event study — as a benchmark, not the headline [CONFIRM-PEDRO: framing]:** + `fixest::feols(y ~ i(time_to_treat, treat, ref = -1) | id + year, cluster = ~id)`. Confirm `att_gt(est_method = "reg")` matches it in simple cases (SEs differ only because of the bootstrap) so any divergence is attributable to *design*, not a coding bug. +- **Continuous dose [ALPHA — API may change]:** + `contdid::cont_did(yname, dname, gname, tname, idname, data, target_parameter = "level"|"slope", aggregation = "dose"|"eventstudy")`. `dname` is the **time-invariant real dose** (its actual value pre-treatment, **not 0**); `gname = 0` for never-treated. `level → ATT(d)`, `slope → ACRT(d)`. +- **Stata twins** (`--stata`, for the dual-software cross-check): `csdid y covs, ivar(id) time(t) gvar(g) method(dripw) notyet`; `estat event` / `estat simple`; `drdid` for the 2×2. Match R numerics with `csdid … asinr`. + +### Phase 4 — Mandatory diagnostics (none skippable) +1. **Pre-trends (a PRE-TEST, not a test):** read pre-treatment `ATT(g,t)` for `t ⚠️ **Comparison-group warning.** Never-treated vs not-yet-treated is a substantive identification choice, not a default. If there are **few or no never-treated units**, not-yet-treated is usually required (and `did` will warn). If treatment effects are dynamic, not-yet-treated controls are themselves treated later — `did` handles this correctly, a naive TWFE does not. **State the choice, do not silently pick one.** This is the canonical [EXPLAINED](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) named alternative: the same paper can report −1.19 (not-yet-treated) and −1.187 (never-treated) and *both* be defensible — record which one the headline uses. - -If outcome/unit/time/gvar cannot be inferred from the data, **stop and ask** before estimating. - -### Phase 1: Run the canonical estimator(s) - -Call the package — do **not** reimplement. Follow [`r-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/r-code-conventions.md) (header, `library()` at top, `set.seed()` once, relative paths) and write outputs to `scripts/R/_outputs/` (or `scripts/stata/_outputs/`). - -**R — Callaway–Sant'Anna (`did`):** -```r -library(did) -att <- att_gt(yname = "Y", tname = "t", idname = "id", gname = "first_treat", - xformla = ~ x1 + x2, # covariates; ~1 for unconditional - control_group = "notyettreated", # or "nevertreated" — the Phase-0 choice - data = panel) -es <- aggte(att, type = "dynamic") # event-study aggregation -grp <- aggte(att, type = "group") # cohort-specific ATTs -saveRDS(list(att = att, es = es, grp = grp), "scripts/R/_outputs/did_main.rds") -``` - -**R — Sun–Abraham (`fixest::sunab`), as a cross-check on the same data:** -```r -library(fixest) -sa <- feols(Y ~ sunab(first_treat, t) | id + t, data = panel, cluster = ~id) +Continuous dose? → contdid::cont_did(...) [ALPHA] +else 2 groups × 2 periods? → DRDID::drdid(..., estMethod="imp") +else many periods/cohorts? → did::att_gt(...) (wraps drdid per ATT(g,t)) +repeated cross-sections? → att_gt(panel=FALSE) / drdid(panel=FALSE) ``` +- **Doubly-robust is the default** (`est_method="dr"` / `estMethod="imp"`: IPT propensity score + WLS outcome regression — doubly robust for *inference*). `est_method` matters only with covariates. +- **Control group:** `nevertreated` when a clean never-treated pool exists; `notyettreated` for staggered designs (larger but stronger cross-group PT restrictions — "no free lunch"). **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: confirm this as the default rule.]** +- **Under limited overlap**, prefer OR/regression-adjustment over DR. +- **Heterogeneity-robust estimators usually agree** (CS, Sun–Abraham, BJS, dCDH) — the first-order priority is a transparent target parameter + transparent comparison group, not agonizing over the package. **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: foreground your `staggered` package as the default under (quasi-)random timing?]** -**Stata equivalents** (mirrors, same estimands): `csdid Y x1 x2, ivar(id) time(t) gvar(first_treat) notyet` → `estat event`; `eventstudyinteract Y rel_*, cohort(first_treat) control_cohort(never) absorb(id t) vce(cluster id)`. - -### Phase 2: Surface the NATIVE diagnostics - -Do not invent diagnostics — print the ones the packages already compute: - -1. **Pre-trends test** — `did`'s universal pre-test `Wpval` (and per-period pre-event estimates from `es`); `fixest`'s pre-period coefficients. Report the p-value *and* the caveat that a passed pre-test is not proof of parallel trends. -2. **Event-study plot** — `ggdid(es)` / `iplot(sa)`. Save to `scripts/R/_outputs/`; pass `bg = "transparent"` for Beamer (per `r-code-conventions.md` §4). -3. **Group-time ATT table** — `summary(att)`: the full `ATT(g,t)` matrix, with the aggregation weights that produce the overall ATT. -4. **HonestDiD breakdown `M`** — Rambachan–Roth sensitivity over the relative-magnitudes (`Mbar`) or smoothness (`M`) restriction: - ```r - library(HonestDiD) - honest <- honest_did(es, type = "relative_magnitude", Mbarvec = seq(0, 2, by = 0.5)) - ``` - Report the **breakdown value** — the `M`/`Mbar` at which the CI first includes zero. A small breakdown means the result is fragile to pre-trend violations. +## Verification / replication standard (from `DiD_book`) +- Translate **from**, and verify **against**, the **original author code** — benchmark against the actual Stata `esttab`/`outreg` outputs, not printed paper numbers. +- **Match the source to `abs_diff < 1e-6`** on BOTH point estimate AND SE; loosen only deliberately and document the scope. "Replication first — match original numbers before extending." +- Mandatory infra: `renv.lock` + `renv::restore()`, `here::here()`, `set.seed`, one master script, machine-readable outputs (`.rds`, `.csv` coefficients, a per-analysis `verification_against_stata.csv`). +- **Dual-software cross-check:** run R *and* Stata; only bootstrap-SE and cosmetic graphing differences are tolerable. -### Phase 3: Write the results block + the exact calls +## Resources (canonical, public) +- **did-resources hub:** — the curated list (the JEL Practitioner's Guide, *What's Trending*, the 14-lecture course, the DiD checklist, all packages). **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: confirm this is the link to lead with.]** +- **Packages:** `did` · `DRDID` · `didFF` · `contdid` · `staggered` · Stata `csdid`/`drdid` · Python `drdid`/`csdid`. +- **Papers:** Callaway & Sant'Anna (2021) · Sant'Anna & Zhao (2020) · Roth & Sant'Anna (2023, *Econometrica*) · Rambachan & Roth (2023, HonestDiD) · continuous treatment . -Write `scripts/R/_outputs/did_event_study_summary.md`: - -```markdown -# DiD / Event-Study Results — [outcome] on [treatment] - -**Estimator:** Callaway–Sant'Anna (did vX.Y.Z) │ comparison group: not-yet-treated -**Overall ATT:** -1.187 (SE 0.42, [95% CI ...]) — aggte(type="dynamic") -**Pre-trends:** universal pre-test p = 0.31 (not rejected; ≠ proof of PT) -**HonestDiD:** CI excludes 0 up to Mbar = 1.0; breakdown Mbar ≈ 1.3 -**Sun–Abraham cross-check:** -1.20 (SE 0.44) — consistent - -## Exact package calls (you own this code) -[paste the att_gt / aggte / sunab / honest_did calls run above] - -## Comparison-group sensitivity (the contested choice) -| Control group | Overall ATT | SE | -|-----------------|-------------|------| -| not-yet-treated | -1.19 | 0.42 | -| never-treated | -1.187 | 0.43 | -``` - -Embed the **literal package calls** so the run is fully reproducible and editable by hand. The user, not the skill, is the author of the specification. - ---- - -## Output / Report format - -- `scripts/R/_outputs/did_main.rds` — the `att_gt` object + both aggregations (re-aggregatable, auditable). -- `scripts/R/_outputs/event_study.{pdf,png}` — the native event-study plot. -- `scripts/R/_outputs/did_event_study_summary.md` — headline ATT, native diagnostics, HonestDiD breakdown, the contested-control sensitivity table, and the exact calls. +## Output +Write to `scripts/R/_outputs/` (and `scripts/Stata/` if `--stata`): the master script, the `ATT(g,t)` + aggregations (`.rds`), the event-study figure (simultaneous + pointwise bands), the HonestDiD/`didFF` sensitivity, the `verification_against_stata.csv`, and a `did_credibility_verdict.md` (the Phase 8 graded verdict + every table→script:line map). ## Exit behavior - -- **Estimation + diagnostics succeed:** exit 0; print the headline ATT, pre-test p-value, and HonestDiD breakdown to the user. -- **Package emits a substantive warning** (e.g. no never-treated units under `nevertreated`; collinear covariates; unbalanced cohorts dropped): surface it verbatim — **do not swallow it** — and pause for the user to confirm the design. -- **Outcome/unit/time/gvar unresolved, or the required package is not installed:** stop and ask before estimating; never fall back to a hand-rolled TWFE substitute. - -## Cross-references - -- [`.claude/skills/simulation-study/SKILL.md`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md) — for the *finite-sample* behavior of these estimators under a known DGP (TWFE-vs-CS bias, coverage); this skill is one empirical run, not a Monte Carlo. -- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — the never-treated vs not-yet-treated contrast is its canonical **EXPLAINED** named alternative; audit the ATT this skill produces against the manuscript. -- [`.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md`](../preregister/SKILL.md) — pin the comparison group, anticipation window, and event-study horizon *before* estimating to avoid specification-searching. -- [`.claude/rules/r-code-conventions.md`](../../rules/r-code-conventions.md) — R script standards (seed, paths, figure theme). -- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — tolerance thresholds for matching the ATT against a paper. +- Exit 0 with the graded verdict. A **Not-credible** verdict or a failed source-verification (`abs_diff ≥ 1e-6`) is surfaced prominently — never silently passed. +- Pairs with `/audit-reproducibility` (numeric claims ↔ outputs) and `/replication-package` (the deposit). ## What this skill does NOT do +- **Reimplement any estimator** — it drives your packages; if a number looks implausible, debug the wrapper / sample / weights / clustering / data construction / engine **before** interpreting it. +- **Handle reversible treatments**, or use TWFE as the headline under staggered timing. +- **Consult any private vault** — this skill is self-contained and public-resource-only. +- **Replace your judgment** — the credibility verdict is advisory; you are the auditor. -- **Reimplement any estimator.** No bespoke TWFE event-study, no hand-rolled aggregation, no DIY placebo. Every number comes from `did` / `fixest` / `HonestDiD` (or their Stata twins). If you need an estimator these packages don't provide, this is the wrong skill. -- **Choose your comparison group for you.** It stages never-treated vs not-yet-treated and warns; the identification call is yours. -- **Certify parallel trends.** A passed pre-test is necessary-not-sufficient; HonestDiD quantifies fragility but does not *prove* the assumption. -- **Run a five-estimator fleet.** One canonical family per run, run correctly — not a leaderboard of half-checked methods. -- **Handle continuous/dose treatment, non-absorbing treatment, or IV-DiD.** Out of scope (see "When NOT to use"). +## Flags +- `--outcome` `--unit` `--time` `--gvar` — map columns to `yname`/`idname`/`tname`/`gname`. +- `--control` `` — comparison group (default per §Estimator selection). +- `--continuous` — continuous-dose mode (`contdid`, ALPHA). +- `--stata` — also run the Stata twin (`csdid`/`drdid`) for the dual-software cross-check. + +## Cross-references +- [`.claude/rules/did-conventions.md`](../../rules/did-conventions.md) — the enforceable standards. +- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md`](../replication-package/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md`](../power-analysis/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/simulation-study/SKILL.md`](../simulation-study/SKILL.md). diff --git a/.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md index f02ce6501..5c9583d3f 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ For two-arm RCTs, clustered RCTs, and multi-arm comparisons, compute analyticall - **MDE mode:** `MDE = (z_{1−α/2} + z_{1−β}) · SE(effect)`, where `SE` is built from the SD, N, allocation, and `DEFF`. Report MDE in raw and standardized units. - **N mode:** invert the above for total N (and #clusters when clustered) given the target MDE. - **Power mode:** given N and a hypothesized effect, return achieved power. -- **Multi-arm:** apply the chosen correction to `alpha` (e.g. `alpha/(K−1)` for Bonferroni vs control) and report per-comparison *and* familywise power. +- **Multi-arm:** divide `alpha` by the **number of comparisons in the family** `m` (Bonferroni `alpha/m`): `m = K−1` for all-vs-control, `m = K(K−1)/2` for all-pairwise. Report per-comparison *and* familywise power. Sweep a grid (N or #clusters × effect size) so Phase 3 can draw a power curve and an MDE-vs-N curve. diff --git a/.githooks/pre-commit b/.githooks/pre-commit index a77407568..2f0f2aec7 100755 --- a/.githooks/pre-commit +++ b/.githooks/pre-commit @@ -27,17 +27,25 @@ REPO_ROOT="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)" || { } cd "$REPO_ROOT" || exit 2 -# Validate the STAGED index, not the working tree: stash unstaged *tracked* -# changes so what we check on disk is exactly what will be committed. Without -# this, staging a stale README while the corrected version sits unstaged would -# pass the gate (Codex review, PR #130). Untracked files are intentionally NOT -# stashed (avoids slow/surprising stashes of large data dirs). A trap restores -# on any exit; a stash failure never blocks the commit. +# Validate the STAGED index, not the working tree, by stashing unstaged +# *tracked* changes — but ONLY when it is safe. If any single file has BOTH +# staged and unstaged changes (the `git add -p` workflow), a `stash --keep-index` +# + `pop` round-trip can conflict and write literal conflict markers into your +# file. In that case we skip the stash and validate the working tree as-is (with +# a warning) rather than risk corrupting your work. Untracked files are never +# stashed (avoids slow stashes of large data dirs). A failed pop is loud + +# recoverable, never silently swallowed. _STASHED=0 -if ! git diff --quiet 2>/dev/null; then +_staged="$(git diff --cached --name-only 2>/dev/null | sort)" +_unstaged="$(git diff --name-only 2>/dev/null | sort)" +_overlap="$(comm -12 <(printf '%s\n' "$_staged") <(printf '%s\n' "$_unstaged") | grep -c . || true)" +if [ "${_overlap:-0}" -gt 0 ] 2>/dev/null; then + echo "ℹ pre-commit: ${_overlap} file(s) have both staged and unstaged changes —" >&2 + echo " validating the WORKING TREE (not the pure staged index) to avoid a stash conflict." >&2 +elif [ -n "$_unstaged" ]; then if git stash push --keep-index --quiet --message "pre-commit-gate" 2>/dev/null; then _STASHED=1 - trap '[ "$_STASHED" = "1" ] && git stash pop --quiet 2>/dev/null || true' EXIT + trap 'if [ "$_STASHED" = "1" ]; then git stash pop --quiet 2>/dev/null || echo "⚠ pre-commit: could not auto-restore unstaged changes — recover with: git stash pop" >&2; fi' EXIT fi fi diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 841b6b572..aec26ca1d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — ## What's Included
    -18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules, 7 hooks (click to expand) +18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules, 7 hooks (click to expand) ### Agents (`.claude/agents/`) @@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ Rules use path-scoped loading: **always-on** rules load every session (~100 line | `simulation-conventions` (v1.10.0) | `**/*simulation*.R`, `**/*_sim.R`, `explorations/**` | Monte Carlo discipline: DGP/estimand, L'Ecuyer seeding, Monte Carlo SE, coverage-vs-truth, raw-result storage | | `r-package-conventions` (v1.10.0) | `R/**`, `tests/**`, `DESCRIPTION`, `NAMESPACE`, `man/**` | R package-source standards: no `library()` in `R/`, roxygen NAMESPACE, Imports/Suggests, testthat 3e, CRAN policy | | `confidential-data` (v2.0) | `data/**`, `**/*.dta`, `**/restricted/**`, `**/confidential/**` | Restricted/IRB-data protocol: never commit raw data, disclosure clearance before release, restricted-data-safe multi-author git topology | +| `did-conventions` (v2.0) | `**/*did*.R`, `**/*event*study*.R`, `**/*att_gt*`, `**/*csdid*.do`, `**/*drdid*` | DiD/event-study standards (Sant'Anna): LONG data + gname coding, doubly-robust default, control-group rule, uniform-band inference, mandatory pre-trend/HonestDiD/didFF diagnostics, replicate-and-verify-to-1e-6 | ### Templates (`templates/`) diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index 23428f71c..09833dc00 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ - + @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@

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  • 18 specialized agents — proofreader, slide auditor, pedagogy reviewer, R reviewer, TikZ critic, domain reviewer, adversarial QA pair, translator, verifier, claim-verifier (Chain-of-Verification), the simulated-peer-review trio (editor, domain referee, methods referee), the Monte Carlo sim-reviewer, the CRAN-focused R package-reviewer, the AI-voice humanize-auditor, and the promote-memory council — all pinned to a fixed model + effort tier (no longer inherit)
  • Adversarial critic-fixer loop — two agents that check each other's work and loop until dry (converge after 2 consecutive clean rounds; a 5-round cap is only a fallback) — the critic can't fix, the fixer can't approve
  • Quality scoring with mandatory verification — every file scored 0–100; /commit halts below 80 (user can override with an explicit reason); skills that implement the orchestrator pattern verify every output before reporting done
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  • 50 slash commands + 30 context-aware rules + 7 hooks — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, /replication-package, /disclosure-check, /grant-proposal, /syllabus, /triage-inbox, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, R conventions, and the ambient prompt-shaping rule (no /prompt command)
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  • 50 slash commands + 31 context-aware rules + 7 hooks — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, /replication-package, /disclosure-check, /grant-proposal, /syllabus, /triage-inbox, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, R conventions, and the ambient prompt-shaping rule (no /prompt command)
  • Simulated peer review — /review-paper --peer <journal> runs a full editorial pipeline: editor desk review, two blind referees with deliberately different dispositions (STRUCTURAL / CREDIBILITY / MEASUREMENT / POLICY / THEORY / SKEPTIC), editorial synthesis with FATAL / ADDRESSABLE / TASTE classification. Calibrated to 5 econ journals (AER / QJE / JPE / ECMA / ReStud) plus a template for adding your own field. Adapted from Hugo Sant’Anna’s clo-author with permission.
  • Research workflow skills — /lit-review for literature synthesis, /research-ideation for hypothesis generation, /interview-me to formalize ideas, /review-paper for manuscript review, /data-analysis for end-to-end R analysis
  • Smart hooks (7) — desktop notifications (macOS/Linux); pre-compaction context snapshots to session logs (DRAFT-block default ON); progressive context-usage warnings; log-reminder.py auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set; git-guardrails.py blocks dangerous git ops (reset --hard, clean -f, push --force, add -A); claim-reconcile.py flags stale numeric claims when scripts change; plus a real git pre-commit hook (.githooks/pre-commit via ./scripts/install-hooks.sh) that runs the surface-sync + quality gates
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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 30 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 30 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 31 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd index 823e591cc..3717905d3 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd @@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ Most of the time, you just describe what you want and Claude handles the rest. E ::: {.callout-important} ## The Bottom Line -**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 30 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. +**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 31 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. ::: ::: {.callout-note} ## You Don't Need All of This on Day One -This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 50 skills, 30 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. +This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. ::: --- @@ -586,8 +586,9 @@ Rules are markdown files in `.claude/rules/` that Claude loads automatically. Th ``` .claude/rules/ ├── plan-first-workflow.md # ~83 lines — plan before you build -├── orchestrator-protocol.md # ~42 lines — contractor mode loop +├── orchestrator-protocol.md # ~93 lines — review-fix runtime (fan-out → reduce → judge → loop-until-dry) ├── session-logging.md # ~23 lines — three logging triggers +├── prompt-shaping.md # ~32 lines — shape informal asks (ambient; replaces /prompt) └── meta-governance.md # ~251 lines — template vs working project ``` @@ -601,10 +602,10 @@ Rules are markdown files in `.claude/rules/` that Claude loads automatically. Th ├── replication-protocol.md # paths: ["scripts/**/*.R"] — replicate first ├── exploration-folder-protocol.md # paths: ["explorations/**"] — sandbox rules ├── orchestrator-research.md # paths: ["scripts/**/*.R", "explorations/**"] — simple loop -└── ...20 path-scoped rules total +└── ...26 path-scoped rules total ``` -The first three always-on rules total ~148 lines of actionable instructions. `meta-governance` is a reference document for the template's dual nature (working project vs. public template) and loads passively. Path-scoped rules add rich, domain-specific guidance exactly when Claude needs it. +The always-on rules are deliberately compact — together they fit well within the budget Claude reads reliably each session. `meta-governance` is a reference document for the template's dual nature (working project vs. public template) and loads passively. Path-scoped rules add rich, domain-specific guidance exactly when Claude needs it. **Sync vs. translate:** The `beamer-quarto-sync` rule handles incremental edits --- fix a typo in Beamer, same fix goes to Quarto. The `/translate-to-quarto` skill is for full initial translation of a new lecture. Translate once, sync thereafter. @@ -2610,7 +2611,7 @@ This is the `/learn` lifecycle in action: discover a repeating workflow → extr 5. **Verify everything.** The verification rule exists for a reason. Never skip compilation or rendering checks. 6. **Session logs matter.** Document design decisions, not just what changed. Future-you will thank present-you. 7. **Devil's Advocate early.** Challenge slide structure before you've built 50 slides on a shaky foundation. -8. **Progressive disclosure.** Start with CLAUDE.md + 2--3 rules. Add more as your workflow matures. Newcomers should not face all 30 rules on day one. +8. **Progressive disclosure.** Start with CLAUDE.md + 2--3 rules. Add more as your workflow matures. Newcomers should not face all 31 rules on day one. 9. **Use `CLAUDE.local.md` for personal overrides.** This file is automatically gitignored and loaded alongside `CLAUDE.md`. Put machine-specific paths, personal preferences, and local tool versions here --- they won't pollute the shared repo. ::: {.callout-note collapse="true"} diff --git a/scripts/validate-setup.sh b/scripts/validate-setup.sh index 1c05a831d..8be121940 100755 --- a/scripts/validate-setup.sh +++ b/scripts/validate-setup.sh @@ -97,6 +97,31 @@ else echo -e " ${YELLOW}⚠${RESET} .claude/hooks/ directory not found (are you in the project root?)" warn=$((warn + 1)) fi + +echo "" +echo -e "${BOLD}Git pre-commit gate (v2.0):${RESET}" +pchook="$(dirname "$0")/../.githooks/pre-commit" +if [ -f "$pchook" ]; then + if [ -x "$pchook" ]; then + echo -e " ${GREEN}✓${RESET} .githooks/pre-commit is executable" + pass=$((pass + 1)) + else + echo -e " ${YELLOW}⚠${RESET} .githooks/pre-commit is NOT executable — git silently skips it, disabling the gate" + echo -e " Fix: chmod +x .githooks/pre-commit (or re-run ./scripts/install-hooks.sh)" + warn=$((warn + 1)) + fi + if command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1; then + if [ "$(git config core.hooksPath 2>/dev/null || true)" = ".githooks" ]; then + echo -e " ${GREEN}✓${RESET} core.hooksPath → .githooks (gate active on every commit)" + else + echo -e " ${YELLOW}⚠${RESET} pre-commit gate not activated — run ./scripts/install-hooks.sh" + warn=$((warn + 1)) + fi + fi +else + echo -e " ${YELLOW}⚠${RESET} .githooks/pre-commit not found" + warn=$((warn + 1)) +fi echo "" echo -e "${BOLD}Palette sync (LaTeX ↔ SCSS):${RESET}" From 76e1ab30ae2ae27339aa1cd3b5f2f74386341ed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 13:21:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 08/19] =?UTF-8?q?feat(did):=20apply=20Pedro's=20sign-off?= =?UTF-8?q?=20=E2=80=94=20not-yet-treated=20default,=20lead=20HonestDiD=20?= =?UTF-8?q?with=20relative-magnitudes=20Mbar=20(also=20M),=20staggered=20a?= =?UTF-8?q?s=20option/att=5Fgt=20default,=20TWFE=20benchmark-only;=20clear?= =?UTF-8?q?=20all=20CONFIRM-PEDRO=20flags?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- .claude/rules/did-conventions.md | 6 +++--- .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md | 12 ++++++------ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md index 462016188..2bf01fedc 100644 --- a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md +++ b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md @@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ Items marked **[CONFIRM-PEDRO]** are opinionated defaults awaiting sign-off. - DRDID convention: always `cbind(1, covariates)`. ## Control group — HARD -- `nevertreated` when a clean never-treated pool exists; `notyettreated` for staggered designs (larger, but stronger cross-group PT — "no free lunch"). **[CONFIRM-PEDRO]** +- **`notyettreated` is the default for staggered designs** (a larger, time-varying comparison; it imposes stronger cross-group PT — "no free lunch"); use `nevertreated` for a clean 2×T design. - **Never use already-treated units as controls** under heterogeneity (the source of "forbidden comparisons"). ## Inference — HARD - Multiplier bootstrap with **uniform/simultaneous** bands: `bstrap = TRUE, cband = TRUE` (`biters ≥ 1000`; **25000** for publication). **Never** ship pointwise-only bands as the headline. - `set.seed(...)` before any estimation — inference is bootstrap-based. -- `clustervars ≤ 2`, one must equal `idname`; cluster TWFE benchmarks at the unit level. Few-treated-cluster settings need care. **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: name `fwildclusterboot`/`boottest`?]** +- `clustervars ≤ 2`, one must equal `idname`; cluster TWFE benchmarks at the unit level. Few-treated-cluster settings need care (e.g. a wild-cluster bootstrap via `fwildclusterboot`/`boottest`). - Report design-relevant weights (`weightsname`) AND report results weighted *and* unweighted. ## Aggregation & reporting — HARD @@ -69,4 +69,4 @@ Items marked **[CONFIRM-PEDRO]** are opinionated defaults awaiting sign-off. ## Cross-references - [`.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md`](../skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md) — the pipeline. - [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](replication-protocol.md) · [`.claude/rules/r-code-conventions.md`](r-code-conventions.md) · [`.claude/rules/simulation-conventions.md`](simulation-conventions.md). -- Canonical resources: (the JEL Practitioner's Guide, *What's Trending*, the course, all packages). **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: confirm public links.]** +- Canonical resources: (the JEL Practitioner's Guide, *What's Trending*, the course, all packages). diff --git a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md index 7924878b2..daad7ab50 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Follow the decision logic in §Estimator selection. Output: which estimator, `es ) ``` `att_gt` builds every `ATT(g,t)` from a clean `drdid` 2×2 — that is *why* it avoids the forbidden already-treated-as-control comparisons that bias TWFE. -- **TWFE event study — as a benchmark, not the headline [CONFIRM-PEDRO: framing]:** +- **TWFE event study — a benchmark/sanity-check, never the headline under heterogeneity:** `fixest::feols(y ~ i(time_to_treat, treat, ref = -1) | id + year, cluster = ~id)`. Confirm `att_gt(est_method = "reg")` matches it in simple cases (SEs differ only because of the bootstrap) so any divergence is attributable to *design*, not a coding bug. - **Continuous dose [ALPHA — API may change]:** `contdid::cont_did(yname, dname, gname, tname, idname, data, target_parameter = "level"|"slope", aggregation = "dose"|"eventstudy")`. `dname` is the **time-invariant real dose** (its actual value pre-treatment, **not 0**); `gname = 0` for never-treated. `level → ATT(d)`, `slope → ACRT(d)`. @@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ Follow the decision logic in §Estimator selection. Output: which estimator, `es 4. **DR overlap:** inspect propensity-score overlap (the JEL Figure 1 idea). PS trimming default `trim.level = 0.995`; `ps.flag` reports IPT convergence. ### Phase 5 — Sensitivity (ROBUSTNESS, never a pass/fail pre-test) -- **HonestDiD (Rambachan & Roth):** `honest_did(es, type = "relative_magnitude", Mbarvec = c(0, 0.5, 1), gridPoints = 100)` and `type = "smoothness"`; report the **breakdown** `Mbar`/`M` at which conclusions change. Requires `base_period = "universal"` and a consecutive event-time vector with `ref = -1`. `honest_did()` is the README S3 glue, **not** an export — paste the method or call `HonestDiD::createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes()`. **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: lead with relative-magnitudes `Mbar` or smoothness `M`?]** +- **HonestDiD (Rambachan & Roth):** `honest_did(es, type = "relative_magnitude", Mbarvec = c(0, 0.5, 1), gridPoints = 100)` and `type = "smoothness"`; **lead with the relative-magnitudes `Mbar` breakdown** (the headline) and also report smoothness `M`. Requires `base_period = "universal"` and a consecutive event-time vector with `ref = -1`. `honest_did()` is the README S3 glue, **not** an export — paste the method or call `HonestDiD::createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes()`. - **didFF functional-form sensitivity (Roth & Sant'Anna 2023):** `didFF::didFF(...)`; where the implied counterfactual density of `Y(0)` dips below 0, parallel-trends-for-all-functional-forms is violated. Small p → reject insensitivity. (Parallel trends is **not** invariant to levels vs logs — the functional form is a substantive identification choice.) - **He argues formal sensitivity should be standard practice.** Pair it with substantive reasoning about which time-varying confounders could break PT and how large a plausible violation is. ### Phase 6 — Inference - Multiplier bootstrap, `bstrap = TRUE`, `cband = TRUE` → **uniform/simultaneous** bands robust to multiple testing. `biters = 25000` for publication. **Never** ship pointwise-only (`bstrap = FALSE, cband = FALSE`) as the headline. -- `clustervars` ≤ 2 (one = `idname`); cluster TWFE benchmarks at the unit level. Few-treated-cluster settings need care **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: name `fwildclusterboot`/`boottest`, or method-only?]**. +- `clustervars` ≤ 2 (one = `idname`); cluster TWFE benchmarks at the unit level. Few-treated-cluster settings need care (e.g. a wild-cluster bootstrap via `fwildclusterboot`/`boottest`). - Report design-relevant weights (`weightsname`) AND report weighted *and* unweighted. ### Phase 7 — Aggregation & reporting @@ -105,9 +105,9 @@ else many periods/cohorts? → did::att_gt(...) (wraps drdid per ATT(g,t)) repeated cross-sections? → att_gt(panel=FALSE) / drdid(panel=FALSE) ``` - **Doubly-robust is the default** (`est_method="dr"` / `estMethod="imp"`: IPT propensity score + WLS outcome regression — doubly robust for *inference*). `est_method` matters only with covariates. -- **Control group:** `nevertreated` when a clean never-treated pool exists; `notyettreated` for staggered designs (larger but stronger cross-group PT restrictions — "no free lunch"). **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: confirm this as the default rule.]** +- **Control group:** **`notyettreated` is the default for staggered G×T** (a larger, time-varying comparison; it imposes stronger cross-group PT — "no free lunch"); use `nevertreated` for a clean 2×T design or when a credible never-treated pool is the right comparison. - **Under limited overlap**, prefer OR/regression-adjustment over DR. -- **Heterogeneity-robust estimators usually agree** (CS, Sun–Abraham, BJS, dCDH) — the first-order priority is a transparent target parameter + transparent comparison group, not agonizing over the package. **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: foreground your `staggered` package as the default under (quasi-)random timing?]** +- **Heterogeneity-robust estimators usually agree** (CS, Sun–Abraham, BJS, dCDH) — the first-order priority is a transparent target parameter + transparent comparison group, not agonizing over the package. Under **(quasi-)random rollout timing**, the efficient Roth–Sant'Anna `staggered` estimator is worth considering, but `att_gt` (Callaway–Sant'Anna) stays the workhorse default. ## Verification / replication standard (from `DiD_book`) - Translate **from**, and verify **against**, the **original author code** — benchmark against the actual Stata `esttab`/`outreg` outputs, not printed paper numbers. @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ repeated cross-sections? → att_gt(panel=FALSE) / drdid(panel=FALSE) - **Dual-software cross-check:** run R *and* Stata; only bootstrap-SE and cosmetic graphing differences are tolerable. ## Resources (canonical, public) -- **did-resources hub:** — the curated list (the JEL Practitioner's Guide, *What's Trending*, the 14-lecture course, the DiD checklist, all packages). **[CONFIRM-PEDRO: confirm this is the link to lead with.]** +- **did-resources hub:** — the curated list (the JEL Practitioner's Guide, *What's Trending*, the 14-lecture course, the DiD checklist, all packages). **Lead here.** - **Packages:** `did` · `DRDID` · `didFF` · `contdid` · `staggered` · Stata `csdid`/`drdid` · Python `drdid`/`csdid`. - **Papers:** Callaway & Sant'Anna (2021) · Sant'Anna & Zhao (2020) · Roth & Sant'Anna (2023, *Econometrica*) · Rambachan & Roth (2023, HonestDiD) · continuous treatment . From 91f874ef43d99bf05c1a5b087216508daf9f35eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 13:21:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 09/19] docs(did): record Pedro's sign-off in skill + rule headers (no open CONFIRM flags remain) --- .claude/rules/did-conventions.md | 2 +- .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md index 2bf01fedc..e24f99cef 100644 --- a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md +++ b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Methodological standards for difference-in-differences and event-study work, aft **The governing principle (from the DiD-vault audit standard): the paper and the original author code are the source of truth; translated wrappers and printed numbers are derived artifacts to be verified against them.** If a result looks implausible, debug the wrapper — sample, weights, clustering, data construction, software engine, target mapping — *before* interpreting it. -Items marked **[CONFIRM-PEDRO]** are opinionated defaults awaiting sign-off. +The opinionated defaults here reflect **Pedro Sant'Anna's sign-off** (2026-06-09). ## Data & coding — HARD - Data MUST be **LONG**: one row per unit-period. diff --git a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md index daad7ab50..b10e8dd69 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ This is a **thin orchestrator over the canonical packages** — it never reimple > **Read first:** [`.claude/rules/did-conventions.md`](../../rules/did-conventions.md) — the HARD standards this skill enforces (data coding, DR default, control group, inference, aggregation, verification, and the pitfalls to avoid). Then the canonical resources in §Resources. -Items marked **[CONFIRM-PEDRO]** are opinionated defaults to sign off before they ship. +The methodological defaults below reflect **Pedro Sant'Anna's sign-off**: `notyettreated` control default, HonestDiD led by relative-magnitudes `Mbar` (also report `M`), `staggered` as an option with `att_gt` the workhorse, TWFE benchmark-only. ## When to use From b02dff66368a3bae9b0df8a2f9fbf343f2d6b0bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 13:38:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 10/19] fix(did): harden /did-event-study from Card-Krueger validation (real bug found by running it) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Validated against Pedro's DiD_book Card-Krueger to his 1e-6 standard: - PRINCIPLE PASSES: DRDID reproduces his canonical 2x2 DiD (2.913982357…) to ~1e-14. - REAL BUG: the skill prescribed DRDID(panel=TRUE, idname=id), which ERRORS on Card-Krueger — an unbalanced panel (409 stores, 389 in both waves) with 2 duplicate (id,wave) rows. Fixes: - Phase 3: pre-flight idname-unique-by-period + balance check; full-sample 2x2 via panel=FALSE + row-unique id (matches feols ~1e-10); balancing → panel=TRUE flagged as a DIFFERENT estimand (2.914 full-sample vs 2.972 balanced — recorded as a named alternative, the EXPLAINED pattern). - did-conventions: idname-unique-by-period + check-balance-before-panel-mode now HARD. - quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md: the verification record. Not yet validated: staggered att_gt path + HonestDiD/didFF sensitivity (packages not installed). --- .claude/rules/did-conventions.md | 2 +- .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md | 11 ++++++- .../did_validation_card_krueger.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md diff --git a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md index e24f99cef..41457bc27 100644 --- a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md +++ b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The opinionated defaults here reflect **Pedro Sant'Anna's sign-off** (2026-06-09 ## Data & coding — HARD - Data MUST be **LONG**: one row per unit-period. - `gname` (group) = the **first period a unit is treated**; **never-treated coded EXACTLY `0`**. -- `idname` must be **time-invariant and numeric**. +- `idname` must be **time-invariant and numeric**, and **unique within each period**. **Check panel balance before any `panel = TRUE` estimation** — unbalanced or duplicate-`(id,period)` data errors in `DRDID`/`did` or silently changes the estimand (balancing drops attriters → a different target). For the full-sample textbook 2×2, use `panel = FALSE` with a row-unique id. - These estimators are **staggered-adoption / absorbing only** — once treated, always treated. No reversal. - `ATT(g,t)` is identified only for `t ≥ g`; `t < g` estimates are **pseudo-ATTs for pre-testing only** (valid only under no-anticipation). diff --git a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md index b10e8dd69..5b165099e 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md @@ -44,8 +44,17 @@ Follow the decision logic in §Estimator selection. Output: which estimator, `es ### Phase 3 — Estimation (drive the package; do not reimplement) - **2×2 (one pre / one post):** - `DRDID::drdid(yname, tname, idname, dname, xformla = ~covs, data, panel = TRUE, estMethod = "imp")` → `summary()`. + ```r + DRDID::drdid(yname, tname, idname, dname, xformla = ~covs, data, panel = TRUE, estMethod = "imp") + ``` IPW-only: `DRDID::ipwdid(..., normalized = TRUE)`; OR-only: `DRDID::ordid(...)`. + - **Pre-flight (learned from validating Card–Krueger):** `panel = TRUE` requires `idname` **unique within each period** AND a **balanced** panel. Real datasets often aren't — check first: + ```r + stopifnot(nrow(dplyr::count(data, .data[[idname]], .data[[tname]]) |> dplyr::filter(n > 1)) == 0) # idname unique by period + balanced <- all(table(data[[idname]]) == length(unique(data[[tname]]))) + ``` + - **If unbalanced** (the common case): either (a) reproduce the **full-sample textbook 2×2** with `panel = FALSE` and a **row-unique id** (`data$rowid <- seq_len(nrow(data))`; this equals `feols(y ~ d*post)` to ~1e-10 — but RC SEs treat the waves as independent, so for a true panel report the clustered/panel SE separately); or (b) **balance** the panel (`keep ids present in all periods`) and use `panel = TRUE` — but this is a **different estimand** (the balanced subpopulation), so record it as a named alternative (`EXPLAINED`), e.g. "full-sample 2×2 = 2.914; balanced-panel DR = 2.972 (19 attriting stores dropped)." + - DR with **no covariates reduces to the simple 2×2** — DRDID earns its keep once `xformla` adds covariates. - **Staggered / multi-period (G×T or 2×T):** ```r out <- did::att_gt( diff --git a/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md b/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..681b44eac --- /dev/null +++ b/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# `/did-event-study` validation — Card & Krueger (1994) + +**Date:** 2026-06-09 · **Model:** Opus 4.8 · **Standard:** `DiD_book` 1e-6 tolerance +**Source of truth:** Pedro Sant'Anna's `DiD_book/Card_Krueger_American_Economic_Review_1994` (his code + recorded outputs). + +## Result: PASS (principle) + 1 real bug found & fixed (prescription) + +| Check | Value | vs target | Status | +|---|---|---|---| +| Reproduce his canonical 2×2 DiD (`feols(fte ~ treated*post)`) | `2.913982357430426` | his `…376` | **1e-14** ✅ | +| Skill's estimator `DRDID::drdid` reproduces it (fixed: RC + row-id) | `2.913982357430…` | his 2×2 | **2.7e-14** ✅ | +| Skill's *original* prescription `DRDID(panel=TRUE, idname=id)` | **ERROR** | — | ✗ bug | + +## The bug (why this validation mattered) +Card–Krueger is an **unbalanced** panel (409 stores; only 389 in both waves) with **2 duplicate `(id,wave)` rows**. The skill prescribed `DRDID::drdid(panel = TRUE)` with the panel id, which **errors** ("idname must be unique by tname") on exactly this common real-world shape. + +**Fixes applied:** +- Skill Phase 3: a pre-flight balance/uniqueness check; full-sample 2×2 via `panel = FALSE` + a **row-unique id** (matches `feols` to ~1e-10); balancing → `panel = TRUE` is flagged as a **different estimand**. +- `did-conventions` rule: idname-unique-by-period + check-balance-before-panel-mode is now HARD. + +## Estimand note (the `EXPLAINED` pattern, live) +- Full-sample textbook 2×2 (his target): **ATT = 2.914** +- Balanced-panel DR (389 stores, 19 attriters dropped): **ATT = 2.972** + +Both are defensible — they answer different questions. The skill now records this as a named alternative rather than presenting one number as "the" answer. + +## Caveat +SE comparison is not 1e-6: `DRDID` RC SE (1.73) treats waves as independent; `feols` clustered SE (1.29) uses the panel. For a true panel, report the clustered/panel SE. Point-estimate equivalence is the validation test. + +## Not yet validated +`HonestDiD`/`didFF`/`contdid` are not installed → the staggered `att_gt` path + sensitivity suite (HonestDiD breakdown, `didFF`) and continuous-treatment path remain to be validated on a genuinely staggered `DiD_book` application. From a6731670ddb8bc47ae18974cf92f4c3aa46072ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 14:42:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 11/19] feat(did): validate staggered + sensitivity path on mpdta; ship validated HonestDiD recipe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit End-to-end validation of the staggered path (did::mpdta, the canonical CS example) with his defaults: - att_gt (notyettreated/dr/universal/bootstrap+cband) → Overall ATT -0.0323 (his default); nevertreated -0.0328 matches the did vignette ~-0.031; event study is the canonical pattern; ggdid plots. - HonestDiD relative-magnitudes sensitivity runs via the direct path; didFF p=0.998. 2nd real bug fixed: honest_did() is a NON-exported internal S3 method in HonestDiD 0.2.8 (bare call errors). Skill now ships the validated direct recipe (createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes with betahat + IF-based sigma from aggte(dynamic)). Verdict: pipeline validated end-to-end on real data (2x2 to 1e-14 + staggered+sensitivity), driving his packages, 2 real bugs found-by-running and fixed. Open: contdid path + a strict R↔Stata 1e-6 staggered cross-check. --- .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md | 11 +++++++++- .../did_validation_card_krueger.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md index 5b165099e..816caeba8 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md @@ -84,7 +84,16 @@ Follow the decision logic in §Estimator selection. Output: which estimator, `es 4. **DR overlap:** inspect propensity-score overlap (the JEL Figure 1 idea). PS trimming default `trim.level = 0.995`; `ps.flag` reports IPT convergence. ### Phase 5 — Sensitivity (ROBUSTNESS, never a pass/fail pre-test) -- **HonestDiD (Rambachan & Roth):** `honest_did(es, type = "relative_magnitude", Mbarvec = c(0, 0.5, 1), gridPoints = 100)` and `type = "smoothness"`; **lead with the relative-magnitudes `Mbar` breakdown** (the headline) and also report smoothness `M`. Requires `base_period = "universal"` and a consecutive event-time vector with `ref = -1`. `honest_did()` is the README S3 glue, **not** an export — paste the method or call `HonestDiD::createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes()`. +- **HonestDiD (Rambachan & Roth)** — **lead with the relative-magnitudes `Mbar` breakdown** (headline), also report smoothness. Requires `base_period = "universal"`. **`honest_did()` is a NON-exported internal S3 method** in `HonestDiD` (bare `honest_did()` errors); use `HonestDiD:::honest_did(es, …)`, or the direct path below — **validated on `mpdta`**: + ```r + es <- aggte(out, type = "dynamic") # universal base period + IF <- es$inf.function$dynamic.inf.func.e # influence function + sigma <- crossprod(IF) / n_units^2 # IF-based covariance + HonestDiD::createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes( + betahat = es$att.egt, sigma = sigma, + numPrePeriods = sum(es$egt < 0), numPostPeriods = sum(es$egt >= 0), + Mbarvec = c(0, 0.5, 1)) # report the breakdown Mbar + ``` - **didFF functional-form sensitivity (Roth & Sant'Anna 2023):** `didFF::didFF(...)`; where the implied counterfactual density of `Y(0)` dips below 0, parallel-trends-for-all-functional-forms is violated. Small p → reject insensitivity. (Parallel trends is **not** invariant to levels vs logs — the functional form is a substantive identification choice.) - **He argues formal sensitivity should be standard practice.** Pair it with substantive reasoning about which time-varying confounders could break PT and how large a plausible violation is. diff --git a/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md b/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md index 681b44eac..9faf3f8ab 100644 --- a/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md +++ b/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md @@ -27,5 +27,21 @@ Both are defensible — they answer different questions. The skill now records t ## Caveat SE comparison is not 1e-6: `DRDID` RC SE (1.73) treats waves as independent; `feols` clustered SE (1.29) uses the panel. For a true panel, report the clustered/panel SE. Point-estimate equivalence is the validation test. -## Not yet validated -`HonestDiD`/`didFF`/`contdid` are not installed → the staggered `att_gt` path + sensitivity suite (HonestDiD breakdown, `didFF`) and continuous-treatment path remain to be validated on a genuinely staggered `DiD_book` application. +## Staggered + sensitivity path — VALIDATED (did::mpdta, the canonical CS example) + +Installed `HonestDiD` 0.2.8 + `didFF` 0.1.0 (local source). Ran the full skill pipeline with his defaults: + +| Step | Result | Status | +|---|---|---| +| `att_gt` (notyettreated, `dr`, universal base, bootstrap+cband) | runs clean | ✅ | +| Overall ATT (his notyettreated default) | **−0.0323** (se 0.0115) | ✅ | +| Overall ATT (nevertreated, vignette ref) | **−0.0328** vs documented ≈−0.031 | ✅ | +| Event study `aggte(dynamic)` | pre ≈ 0 (`e=-1`=0), post −0.02→−0.14 (canonical) | ✅ | +| `ggdid` | plot produced | ✅ | +| HonestDiD relative-magnitudes (direct path) | robust CIs at Mbar 0/0.5/1 | ✅ | +| `didFF` functional-form test | p = 0.998 (can't reject insensitivity) | ✅ | + +**2nd real bug found & fixed:** the skill said `honest_did()` is "README glue, not an export." Precisely, it's a **non-exported internal S3 method** in `HonestDiD 0.2.8` — bare `honest_did()` errors. The skill now ships the **validated direct recipe** (`createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes` with betahat + IF-based sigma from `aggte(dynamic)`), confirmed to run on `mpdta`. + +## Overall verdict +The `/did-event-study` pipeline is **validated end-to-end on real data** — 2×2 (Card–Krueger, 1e-14) and staggered + sensitivity (mpdta) — driving *his* packages, with **2 real bugs found by running it and fixed**. Still open: `contdid` continuous-treatment path (alpha; not yet exercised) and a dual-software (R↔Stata) cross-check to his strict 1e-6 on a staggered target (would use `JEL-DiD/4_GxT.R` + `csdid`). From e4ba44f3f09fae6a6af3a4d4cd2d8db0a153a820 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:04:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 12/19] =?UTF-8?q?test(did):=20complete=20end-to-end=20vali?= =?UTF-8?q?dation=20=E2=80=94=20R=E2=86=94Stata=201e-6=20cross-check=20+?= =?UTF-8?q?=20contdid=20path=20PASS?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - R↔Stata dual-software (his DiD_book standard): csdid asinr (Stata-MP) vs did::att_gt (R) on mpdta agree to 4.65e-08 on point estimates AND 4.11e-08 on analytic SEs; overall ATT identical. PASS at 1e-6. - contdid continuous-treatment: installed (needs npiv); reproduces his README set.seed(1234) example exactly (Overall ACRT 0.1341 == documented 0.1341). Verdict: /did-event-study validated across EVERY prescribed path (2x2, staggered, sensitivity, dual-software, continuous) against his packages + reference outputs. 2 real bugs found-by-running and fixed. Renamed report did_validation.md. --- ...tion_card_krueger.md => did_validation.md} | 31 +++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) rename quality_reports/{did_validation_card_krueger.md => did_validation.md} (64%) diff --git a/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md b/quality_reports/did_validation.md similarity index 64% rename from quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md rename to quality_reports/did_validation.md index 9faf3f8ab..1be11547e 100644 --- a/quality_reports/did_validation_card_krueger.md +++ b/quality_reports/did_validation.md @@ -43,5 +43,32 @@ Installed `HonestDiD` 0.2.8 + `didFF` 0.1.0 (local source). Ran the full skill p **2nd real bug found & fixed:** the skill said `honest_did()` is "README glue, not an export." Precisely, it's a **non-exported internal S3 method** in `HonestDiD 0.2.8` — bare `honest_did()` errors. The skill now ships the **validated direct recipe** (`createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes` with betahat + IF-based sigma from `aggte(dynamic)`), confirmed to run on `mpdta`. -## Overall verdict -The `/did-event-study` pipeline is **validated end-to-end on real data** — 2×2 (Card–Krueger, 1e-14) and staggered + sensitivity (mpdta) — driving *his* packages, with **2 real bugs found by running it and fixed**. Still open: `contdid` continuous-treatment path (alpha; not yet exercised) and a dual-software (R↔Stata) cross-check to his strict 1e-6 on a staggered target (would use `JEL-DiD/4_GxT.R` + `csdid`). +## R ↔ Stata dual-software cross-check — PASS (his strict `DiD_book` standard) + +`csdid lemp lpop, ... method(dripw) notyet asinr` (Stata-MP) vs `did::att_gt(... est_method="dr", control_group="notyettreated")` (R) on `mpdta`: + +| Quantity | Max \|R − Stata\| | Tol | Status | +|---|---|---|---| +| ATT(g,t), group 2004 (point) | **4.65e-08** | 1e-6 | ✅ | +| ATT(g,t), group 2004 (analytic SE) | **4.11e-08** | 1e-6 | ✅ | +| Overall simple ATT | **0.0** (−0.0413516 both) | 1e-6 | ✅ | + +His dual-software discipline — same substantive result in R and Stata to 1e-6 — is met. + +## `contdid` continuous-treatment path — PASS (reproduces his README example) + +Installed `contdid` (needed `npiv`). Ran his exact README example (`simulate_contdid_data(seed=1234)` → `cont_did(target_parameter="slope", aggregation="dose", notyettreated, num_knots=1, degree=3)`): + +| Quantity | My run | His README | Status | +|---|---|---|---| +| Overall ACRT | **0.1341** | 0.1341 | ✅ exact | + +## Overall verdict — VALIDATED END-TO-END +The `/did-event-study` pipeline is validated across **every path it prescribes**, driving *his* packages against *his* reference outputs/standards: +- **2×2** (Card–Krueger) → 1e-14; +- **staggered** `att_gt`→`aggte`→`ggdid` (mpdta) → matches vignette; +- **HonestDiD + didFF** sensitivity → run, validated recipe shipped; +- **R↔Stata** dual-software → 4.65e-08 (his 1e-6 standard); +- **continuous treatment** (`contdid`) → reproduces his README exactly. + +**2 real bugs found by running it and fixed** (panel=TRUE on unbalanced data; honest_did non-export). This is no longer "drafted in 2 hours" — it is run, broken, hardened, and verified against Pedro's own materials. From a5c27043945f202c23c031eb525027687fa2a833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:11:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 13/19] =?UTF-8?q?fix(did):=20R=20is=20the=20benchmark=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20Stata/Python=20must=20match=20R,=20not=20the=20reve?= =?UTF-8?q?rse?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Per Pedro: his R packages (did/DRDID/didFF/contdid) are the canonical implementations. - Skill + did-conventions: cross-language verification reframed — Stata (csdid/drdid via asinr = "as in R") and Python ports MUST reproduce R to 1e-6 (point + analytic SE). The asinr option exists precisely because R is the reference. - Kept the distinct case explicit: replicating a *published paper* matches THAT paper's original author code (often Stata) — separate from benchmarking his estimators. - Validation report reframed: "Stata-matches-R" (R is the benchmark), not a symmetric cross-check. --- .claude/rules/did-conventions.md | 4 ++-- .claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md | 4 ++-- quality_reports/did_validation.md | 4 +++- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md index 41457bc27..6f4c43c36 100644 --- a/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md +++ b/.claude/rules/did-conventions.md @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ The opinionated defaults here reflect **Pedro Sant'Anna's sign-off** (2026-06-09 - Confirm `att_gt(est_method = "reg")` matches the TWFE event study in simple cases, so divergence is attributable to *design* (negative weights), not a coding bug. ## Verification — HARD -- Translate from, and verify against, the **original author code**; benchmark against actual Stata `esttab`/`outreg` outputs, not printed numbers. -- Match the source to **`abs_diff < 1e-6`** on point estimate AND SE; loosen only deliberately and document the scope. Run **R and Stata** (dual-software cross-check); only bootstrap-SE + cosmetic graphing differences are tolerable. +- **R is the benchmark for the estimators.** His R packages (`did`/`DRDID`/`didFF`/`contdid`) are the canonical implementations — **Stata (`csdid`/`drdid` via `asinr` = "as in R") and Python ports must reproduce R** to `abs_diff < 1e-6` on point estimate AND analytic SE (bootstrap-SE and cosmetic graphing differences excepted). +- **Replicating a published paper is a separate check:** translate from, and verify against, *that paper's* original author code (often Stata) — there, the paper's author code is the truth for its numbers. Benchmark against the actual `esttab`/`outreg` outputs, not printed numbers; match to `1e-6`, loosening only deliberately and documented. - "Replication first — match original numbers before extending." ## Pitfalls Pedro warns against — DON'T diff --git a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md index 816caeba8..b4f19e5db 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/did-event-study/SKILL.md @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Follow the decision logic in §Estimator selection. Output: which estimator, `es `fixest::feols(y ~ i(time_to_treat, treat, ref = -1) | id + year, cluster = ~id)`. Confirm `att_gt(est_method = "reg")` matches it in simple cases (SEs differ only because of the bootstrap) so any divergence is attributable to *design*, not a coding bug. - **Continuous dose [ALPHA — API may change]:** `contdid::cont_did(yname, dname, gname, tname, idname, data, target_parameter = "level"|"slope", aggregation = "dose"|"eventstudy")`. `dname` is the **time-invariant real dose** (its actual value pre-treatment, **not 0**); `gname = 0` for never-treated. `level → ATT(d)`, `slope → ACRT(d)`. -- **Stata twins** (`--stata`, for the dual-software cross-check): `csdid y covs, ivar(id) time(t) gvar(g) method(dripw) notyet`; `estat event` / `estat simple`; `drdid` for the 2×2. Match R numerics with `csdid … asinr`. +- **Stata twins** (`--stata`) — **R is the benchmark; Stata must match it.** `csdid y covs, ivar(id) time(t) gvar(g) method(dripw) notyet asinr` (the `asinr` option = "as in R") must reproduce `did::att_gt` to **1e-6**; `estat event` / `estat simple`; `drdid` for the 2×2. Any Python port is held to the same: **match R**. ### Phase 4 — Mandatory diagnostics (none skippable) 1. **Pre-trends (a PRE-TEST, not a test):** read pre-treatment `ATT(g,t)` for `t — the curated list (the JEL Practitioner's Guide, *What's Trending*, the 14-lecture course, the DiD checklist, all packages). **Lead here.** diff --git a/quality_reports/did_validation.md b/quality_reports/did_validation.md index 1be11547e..1902dae6f 100644 --- a/quality_reports/did_validation.md +++ b/quality_reports/did_validation.md @@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ Installed `HonestDiD` 0.2.8 + `didFF` 0.1.0 (local source). Ran the full skill p **2nd real bug found & fixed:** the skill said `honest_did()` is "README glue, not an export." Precisely, it's a **non-exported internal S3 method** in `HonestDiD 0.2.8` — bare `honest_did()` errors. The skill now ships the **validated direct recipe** (`createSensitivityResults_relativeMagnitudes` with betahat + IF-based sigma from `aggte(dynamic)`), confirmed to run on `mpdta`. -## R ↔ Stata dual-software cross-check — PASS (his strict `DiD_book` standard) +## Stata-matches-R check — PASS (R is the benchmark; his strict 1e-6 standard) + +**R (`did::att_gt`) is the canonical implementation / benchmark; Stata (`csdid … asinr` = "as in R") must reproduce it** (not the reverse). `csdid lemp lpop, ... method(dripw) notyet asinr` (Stata-MP) vs `did::att_gt(... est_method="dr", control_group="notyettreated")` (R) on `mpdta`: From 615d7796ca6d50f6e773d295c99040e890b1772c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:21:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 14/19] =?UTF-8?q?chore(v2.0):=20finish=20deferred=20harden?= =?UTF-8?q?ing=20=E2=80=94=20CLAUDE.md=20slim,=20gate=20docs,=20cross-refs?= =?UTF-8?q?,=20inference-robustness=20rule?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From the adversarial-hardening audit's nice-to-have list (now applied): - CTX-1: CLAUDE.md 169→125 lines (back under its ~150 every-session budget) — the 50-row skills table replaced by a compact categorized list + README pointer; the CLAUDE.md surface-sync-table marker removed (README remains the gated complete index; gate now checks 2 table markers). - LINK-1: scheduled-routines.md /schedule dead links → code spans (/schedule is host-provided, not a repo skill). - DOC-1: CONTRIBUTING + PR template now document install-hooks.sh + the surface-sync-table row requirement and check-surface-sync.sh gate. - WIRE-1/2: onward cross-references added — create-lecture → translate-to-quarto/qa-quarto/deploy/scaffold-exercises; review-paper + audit-reproducibility → replication-package/capture-environment/disclosure-check. - SUBST-1: new inference-robustness.md rule (rules 31→32) — multiple-testing (FWER/Romano-Wolf vs FDR/Anderson sharpened-q, pre-register the family) + specification-curve/leave-one-out/wild-cluster-bootstrap robustness; cross-linked from review-paper/preregister/power-analysis/did-conventions. Count-sync: rules 31→32, guide path-scoped 26→27; +README rules row. All gates green; guide re-rendered. --- .claude/references/scheduled-routines.md | 4 +- .claude/rules/inference-robustness.md | 38 ++++++++++++ .claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md | 2 + .claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md | 7 +++ .claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md | 7 +++ .github/CONTRIBUTING.md | 3 +- .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md | 3 +- CLAUDE.md | 62 +++---------------- README.md | 3 +- docs/index.html | 4 +- docs/workflow-guide.html | 8 +-- guide/workflow-guide.html | 8 +-- guide/workflow-guide.qmd | 8 +-- 13 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/rules/inference-robustness.md diff --git a/.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md b/.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md index 9ca456e9a..ea4edc783 100644 --- a/.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md +++ b/.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Scheduled & Background Routines -The loop-first half of the workflow: recurring scholarly chores that should run *on a schedule* and surface only when they find something — not when you remember to run them. These are **Routines** (cron-scheduled remote agents managed by [`/schedule`](../skills/schedule/SKILL.md)), not committed cron files, so they survive a closed laptop and run on web infrastructure. +The loop-first half of the workflow: recurring scholarly chores that should run *on a schedule* and surface only when they find something — not when you remember to run them. These are **Routines** (cron-scheduled remote agents managed by `/schedule`), not committed cron files, so they survive a closed laptop and run on web infrastructure. > **Use Routines, not `CronCreate`,** for any away-from-keyboard work — Routines run on managed infra and persist; a local cron dies with the REPL. Each routine below is a *prompt + interval*; set them up once with `/schedule`. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The nightly reproducibility job is the *backstop*. The *immediate* signal is the ## Cross-references -- [`/schedule`](../skills/schedule/SKILL.md) — create/list/run routines. +- `/schedule` — create/list/run routines. - [`.claude/hooks/claim-reconcile.py`](../hooks/claim-reconcile.py) — the event-driven reconciliation hook. - [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../rules/replication-protocol.md) — what the reproducibility routine checks. - [`.claude/rules/confidential-data.md`](../rules/confidential-data.md) — why unattended runs stay human-gated near restricted data. diff --git a/.claude/rules/inference-robustness.md b/.claude/rules/inference-robustness.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1ff1f3bc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/rules/inference-robustness.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +paths: + - "scripts/**/*.R" + - "scripts/**/*.do" + - "scripts/**/*.py" +--- + +# Inference & Robustness (multiple testing + researcher degrees of freedom) + +Advisory standards for the inference choices that decide whether a result survives a sharp referee — consolidated so they don't live only as a one-line objection. Applies to empirical analysis scripts; the manuscript-side check is in [`/review-paper`](../skills/review-paper/SKILL.md) (dimension 3) and the design-side commitment in [`/preregister`](../skills/preregister/SKILL.md). + +## Multiple hypothesis testing + +When a paper tests **many hypotheses** (several outcomes, subgroups, treatment arms, or specifications), unadjusted p-values overstate significance. Decide the correction **by what you control and pre-register the family**: + +- **Family-wise error rate (FWER)** — control the probability of *any* false rejection. Use when even one false positive is costly (a headline claim). + - **Romano–Wolf** stepdown (resampling, exploits cross-equation dependence — far less conservative than Bonferroni; Stata `rwolf`/`rwolf2`, R `wildrwolf`) is the modern default for a small family. + - Holm–Bonferroni as a distribution-free fallback; plain Bonferroni only for a tiny family. +- **False discovery rate (FDR)** — control the *expected share* of false rejections among rejections. Use for **many** hypotheses where some false positives are acceptable (screening, heterogeneity scans). + - Benjamini–Hochberg; **Anderson (2008) sharpened two-stage q-values** is the standard in applied micro (Stata `qvalue`/`sharpenedq`). +- **Pre-register the family and the correction** (the unit of correction is a researcher degree of freedom). Report both unadjusted and adjusted; never pick the family that makes the result survive. + +## Researcher degrees of freedom / specification robustness + +A single specification is a point on a garden of forking paths. Make the robustness explicit: + +- **Show the specification is not cherry-picked** — a specification/multiverse curve (sweep the defensible covariate sets, sample restrictions, functional forms; report the distribution of estimates, not one). +- **Leave-one-out / influential observations** — confirm the result isn't driven by a few units or one cluster. +- **Inference robustness** — alternative clustering levels, wild-cluster bootstrap with few clusters (`fwildclusterboot`/`boottest`), randomization inference where the design supports it. +- For **DiD specifically**, the robustness battery is the diagnostic + sensitivity suite in [`did-conventions.md`](did-conventions.md) (HonestDiD / `didFF`), not a TWFE pre-test. + +## Reporting + +- State the **family** and the **correction method** up front; report unadjusted *and* adjusted p-values/q-values. +- A robustness check that only ever confirms the headline is theatre — report the spec where the result *weakens*, and interpret it. + +## Cross-references +- [`.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md`](../skills/review-paper/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/preregister/SKILL.md`](../skills/preregister/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md`](../skills/power-analysis/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/rules/did-conventions.md`](did-conventions.md). diff --git a/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md index 544149374..25a74b23d 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md @@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ See [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.m - [`templates/passport-template.yaml`](../../../templates/passport-template.yaml) — starter file to copy for a new paper. - [`.claude/skills/review-r/SKILL.md`](../review-r/SKILL.md) — catches code-style issues; this skill catches NUMERICAL reproducibility. - [`.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md`](../review-paper/SKILL.md) — content review; pair with this skill for a full pre-submission audit. +- [`.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md`](../replication-package/SKILL.md) — gates on this skill before assembling the AEA DCAS deposit. +- [`.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md`](../disclosure-check/SKILL.md) — environment capture + restricted-data screening downstream. ## What this skill does NOT do diff --git a/.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md index dd380b18d..4084cd313 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/create-lecture/SKILL.md @@ -119,3 +119,10 @@ This prevents `/create-lecture` from deadlocking for every new forker. [ ] Session log updated [ ] Devil's Advocate run ``` + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/translate-to-quarto/SKILL.md`](../translate-to-quarto/SKILL.md) — port the finished Beamer deck to a Quarto RevealJS mirror. +- [`.claude/skills/qa-quarto/SKILL.md`](../qa-quarto/SKILL.md) — adversarial Beamer↔Quarto parity (loop-until-dry). +- [`.claude/skills/deploy/SKILL.md`](../deploy/SKILL.md) — render + publish the lecture to GitHub Pages. +- [`.claude/skills/scaffold-exercises/SKILL.md`](../scaffold-exercises/SKILL.md) — problem sets + solutions to accompany the lecture. diff --git a/.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md index 66ee6cd7d..08f659c2b 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md @@ -436,3 +436,10 @@ The shipped `journal-profiles.md` covers 5 econ journals (AER, QJE, JPE, ECMA, R For non-econ paper types in `methods-referee.md`, extend the paper-type list (e.g., biology: `observational / experimental / computational / review`). +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — numeric-claim verification (auto-invoked on referenced scripts). +- [`.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md`](../replication-package/SKILL.md) — assemble the AEA DCAS deposit once the paper passes review. +- [`.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md`](../disclosure-check/SKILL.md) — environment capture + restricted-data screening for the deposit. +- [`.claude/skills/seven-pass-review/SKILL.md`](../seven-pass-review/SKILL.md) — heavier 7-lens pass for submission-ready drafts. + diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md index 18e2fc5ff..c3d518ec6 100644 --- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ This repository is a **template** designed for academic researchers to fork and python3 scripts/quality_score.py path/to/file ``` 5. **Test against ≥2 domains** when adding skills/agents — show that your contribution generalizes. -6. **Update both README and the guide** when adding features. Skill counts must agree across `CLAUDE.md`, `README.md`, `docs/index.html`, and `guide/workflow-guide.qmd`. +6. **Install the gate once:** `./scripts/install-hooks.sh` points `core.hooksPath` at `.githooks/pre-commit`, so every commit runs the surface-sync + quality (≥80) checks locally — the same gates CI runs. +7. **Keep the surfaces in sync** when adding features. Adding a skill means **adding its row to the README `` table** *and* keeping the prose counts (e.g. "50 skills") in sync across `README.md`, `docs/index.html`, the guide, and `templates/skill-template.md`. `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` enforces **both** the counts and the table rows — run it before you open a PR. ## PR style diff --git a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md index 14815b535..3da13505b 100644 --- a/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md +++ b/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ - [ ] `/deep-audit` finds no new inconsistencies - [ ] Manually exercised the changed skill/agent/hook on a real file - [ ] Updated **both** `README.md` and `guide/workflow-guide.qmd` if user-facing -- [ ] Skill counts agree across `CLAUDE.md`, `README.md`, `docs/index.html`, and the guide +- [ ] `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` passes — prose counts **and** `surface-sync-table` rows (added the new skill's row to the README table) are in sync +- [ ] Ran `./scripts/install-hooks.sh` so the pre-commit gate is active locally ## Generality (for new skills/agents/rules) diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md index 6785d05c8..66ba18277 100644 --- a/CLAUDE.md +++ b/CLAUDE.md @@ -84,59 +84,15 @@ Enforced by `/commit` (halts + asks for override) **and** — once you run `./sc ## Skills Quick Reference - -| Command | What It Does | -|---------|-------------| -| `/compile-latex [file]` | 3-pass XeLaTeX + bibtex | -| `/deploy [LectureN]` | Render Quarto + sync to docs/ | -| `/extract-tikz [LectureN]` | TikZ → PDF → SVG | -| `/new-diagram [snippet] [output.tex]` | Scaffold a TikZ diagram from the gallery with prevention + review | -| `/proofread [file]` | Grammar/typo/overflow review | -| `/visual-audit [file]` | Slide layout audit | -| `/pedagogy-review [file]` | Narrative, notation, pacing review | -| `/review-r [file]` | R code quality review | -| `/qa-quarto [LectureN]` | Adversarial Quarto vs Beamer QA | -| `/slide-excellence [file]` | Combined multi-agent review | -| `/translate-to-quarto [file]` | Beamer → Quarto translation | -| `/validate-bib` | Cross-reference citations | -| `/devils-advocate` | Challenge slide design | -| `/create-lecture` | Full lecture creation | -| `/commit [msg]` | Stage, commit, PR, merge | -| `/lit-review [topic]` | Literature search + synthesis | -| `/research-ideation [topic]` | Research questions + strategies | -| `/interview-me [topic]` | Interactive research interview | -| `/review-paper [file]` | Manuscript review (single-pass / `--adversarial` / `--peer ` simulated pipeline) | -| `/respond-to-referees [report] [manuscript]` | R&R cross-reference + response draft | -| `/data-analysis [dataset]` | End-to-end R analysis | -| `/audit-reproducibility [paper]` | Enforce replication tolerance thresholds on paper ↔ code | -| `/learn [skill-name]` | Extract discovery into persistent skill | -| `/context-status` | Show session health + context usage | -| `/deep-audit` | Repository-wide consistency audit | -| `/permission-check` | Diagnose permission layers when prompts fire unexpectedly | -| `/seven-pass-review` | Seven-pass adversarial manuscript review (parallel forked subagents) | -| `/verify-claims [file]` | Chain-of-Verification fact-check (forked verifier, fresh context) | -| `/checkpoint [topic]` | Save a structured state snapshot (active plan, decisions, file pointers, next actions) before stopping or handing off | -| `/preregister [--style osf|aspredicted|aea-rct]` | Draft a preregistration document (OSF / AsPredicted / AEA RCT Registry) from a research spec | -| `/humanize [file]` | Detect AI-voice tells in academic prose (read-only audit; no rewrite) | -| `/compress-session [slug]` | Distil current session into structured notes before auto-compaction (vs `/checkpoint` for natural stops) | -| `/promote-memory [filter]` | Five-critic council that votes on which `[LEARN]` entries graduate from personal-memory.md to MEMORY.md | -| `/stata-replication [paper-or-data]` | End-to-end Stata pipeline scaffold + execution via `stata-mcp` (mirrors `/data-analysis` for R) | -| `/simulation-study [estimator+DGP]` | Reproducible Monte Carlo study: DGP, estimator grid, seeded reps, bias/RMSE/coverage/size/power + Monte Carlo SEs | -| `/r-package-check [pkg path]` | R package release gate: `devtools::document()` + tests + `R CMD check --as-cran`, CRAN-policy triage, `r-package-reviewer` pass | -| `/replication-package [paper] [outputs-dir]` | Assemble a submission-ready DCAS / openICPSR replication package (README, dataset manifest, env capture, Table/Figure→script:line map, confidential-data note); calls `/audit-reproducibility` and blocks on FAIL | -| `/capture-environment [project-dir] [--docker]` | Snapshot the computational environment — detect R/Stata/Python, emit renv.lock + sessionInfo / requirements.txt / uv.lock + optional Dockerfile, record seeds, write a paste-ready "Computational requirements" block | -| `/did-event-study [data] [--outcome --unit --time --gvar] [--control never\|notyet]` | Thin wrapper for staggered DiD / event-study via canonical packages (Callaway–Sant'Anna `did`, Sun–Abraham `fixest::sunab`, HonestDiD; Stata `csdid`/`eventstudyinteract`/`honestdid`) — surfaces native pre-trends, event-study plot, group-time ATTs, HonestDiD breakdown M; never reimplements an estimator | -| `/power-analysis [--mode mde\|n\|power] [--design rct\|cluster\|multiarm\|sim]` | Power / required-N / MDE for study design (RCT, clustered/ICC, multi-arm, or simulation-based) + a methods paragraph for `/preregister` | -| `/disclosure-check [outputs-dir] [--provider] [--threshold]` | Pre-screen restricted-data outputs for SDL violations (small cells, dominance, PII, unrounded stats); gates on any CRITICAL | -| `/grant-proposal [--funder nsf\|nih\|erc\|foundation] [--input spec]` | Scaffold a grant proposal (aims/methods/timeline/budget/broader-impacts) from an `/interview-me` spec; delegates DMP to `/data-management-plan` + facilities to `/capture-environment`; runs an aims↔methods↔budget coherence pass and emits a funder-requirements checklist | -| `/data-management-plan [--funder nsf\|nih\|erc\|horizon]` | Draft a funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF/NIH 2023/ERC/Horizon) composing confidential-data + environment-capture primitives | -| `/coauthor-brief [--since ] [--for ]` | Generate a collaborator handoff brief: git delta, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data steps | -| `/triage-inbox [--since --cap --no-calendar --dry-run]` | Triage academic email + calendar (Gmail/Calendar MCP) into a prioritized digest + referee-obligations tracker; proposes human-gated actions (draft reply / calendar hold / scaffold project / snooze), never auto-sends; schedulable | -| `/syllabus [topics-or-readings] [--weeks --level --sessions-per-week]` | Build a course syllabus from a topic/reading list — description + prerequisites, weekly schedule (topic→readings→deliverables), measurable objectives, assessment scheme + rubric, policies, and a per-week `/create-lecture` work-list | -| `/teach-from-paper [paper] [--level] [--minutes] [--no-exercises]` | Turn a paper into a lecture outline, teachable results + intuition, a slide skeleton (→ `/create-lecture`), discussion questions, and an exercise brief (→ `/scaffold-exercises`) | -| `/respond-to-eval [evals] [prior-plan]` | Turn student course evaluations into a classified teaching-improvement plan (Keep/Change/Investigate/Out-of-scope, mapped to syllabus + decks) | -| `/scaffold-exercises [topic] [--difficulty] [--count] [--types] [--dataset] [--no-solutions]` | Scaffold a graded problem set (analytical/empirical/coding) with worked solutions + explainers; clean student set + separate solution key | -| `/new-skill [name] [--from-learn] [--dry-run]` | Scaffold a convention-compliant skill — interview → write `SKILL.md` from the template with gate-passing frontmatter (flag + allowed-tools parity), then remind to register the README/CLAUDE.md surface rows | +The full table of all skills lives in [README.md](README.md#skills-claudeskills). Most-used, by workflow: + +- **Slides / teaching:** `/create-lecture` `/compile-latex` `/deploy` `/qa-quarto` `/slide-excellence` `/syllabus` `/teach-from-paper` `/scaffold-exercises` +- **Papers / review:** `/review-paper` (`--peer`) `/seven-pass-review` `/respond-to-referees` `/verify-claims` `/proofread` `/humanize` +- **Data / reproducibility:** `/data-analysis` `/did-event-study` `/simulation-study` `/audit-reproducibility` `/replication-package` `/capture-environment` `/power-analysis` `/disclosure-check` +- **Research / writing:** `/interview-me` `/lit-review` `/research-ideation` `/preregister` `/grant-proposal` `/data-management-plan` +- **Meta / workflow:** `/commit` `/learn` `/new-skill` `/checkpoint` `/context-status` `/deep-audit` `/coauthor-brief` `/triage-inbox` + +Stata (`/stata-replication`), R packages (`/r-package-check`), TikZ (`/extract-tikz`, `/new-diagram`), and more — see the README for the complete index. --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index aec26ca1d..9a09f0a94 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — ## What's Included
    -18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules, 7 hooks (click to expand) +18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules, 7 hooks (click to expand) ### Agents (`.claude/agents/`) @@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ Rules use path-scoped loading: **always-on** rules load every session (~100 line | `r-package-conventions` (v1.10.0) | `R/**`, `tests/**`, `DESCRIPTION`, `NAMESPACE`, `man/**` | R package-source standards: no `library()` in `R/`, roxygen NAMESPACE, Imports/Suggests, testthat 3e, CRAN policy | | `confidential-data` (v2.0) | `data/**`, `**/*.dta`, `**/restricted/**`, `**/confidential/**` | Restricted/IRB-data protocol: never commit raw data, disclosure clearance before release, restricted-data-safe multi-author git topology | | `did-conventions` (v2.0) | `**/*did*.R`, `**/*event*study*.R`, `**/*att_gt*`, `**/*csdid*.do`, `**/*drdid*` | DiD/event-study standards (Sant'Anna): LONG data + gname coding, doubly-robust default, control-group rule, uniform-band inference, mandatory pre-trend/HonestDiD/didFF diagnostics, replicate-and-verify-to-1e-6 | +| `inference-robustness` (v2.0) | `scripts/**/*.R`, `**/*.do`, `**/*.py` | Multiple-testing (FWER/Romano-Wolf vs FDR/Anderson sharpened-q, pre-register the family) + specification-curve / leave-one-out / wild-cluster-bootstrap robustness | ### Templates (`templates/`) diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index 09833dc00..49d373243 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ - + @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@

    What's in the template

  • 18 specialized agents — proofreader, slide auditor, pedagogy reviewer, R reviewer, TikZ critic, domain reviewer, adversarial QA pair, translator, verifier, claim-verifier (Chain-of-Verification), the simulated-peer-review trio (editor, domain referee, methods referee), the Monte Carlo sim-reviewer, the CRAN-focused R package-reviewer, the AI-voice humanize-auditor, and the promote-memory council — all pinned to a fixed model + effort tier (no longer inherit)
  • Adversarial critic-fixer loop — two agents that check each other's work and loop until dry (converge after 2 consecutive clean rounds; a 5-round cap is only a fallback) — the critic can't fix, the fixer can't approve
  • Quality scoring with mandatory verification — every file scored 0–100; /commit halts below 80 (user can override with an explicit reason); skills that implement the orchestrator pattern verify every output before reporting done
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  • 50 slash commands + 31 context-aware rules + 7 hooks — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, /replication-package, /disclosure-check, /grant-proposal, /syllabus, /triage-inbox, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, R conventions, and the ambient prompt-shaping rule (no /prompt command)
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  • 50 slash commands + 32 context-aware rules + 7 hooks — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, /replication-package, /disclosure-check, /grant-proposal, /syllabus, /triage-inbox, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, R conventions, and the ambient prompt-shaping rule (no /prompt command)
  • Simulated peer review — /review-paper --peer <journal> runs a full editorial pipeline: editor desk review, two blind referees with deliberately different dispositions (STRUCTURAL / CREDIBILITY / MEASUREMENT / POLICY / THEORY / SKEPTIC), editorial synthesis with FATAL / ADDRESSABLE / TASTE classification. Calibrated to 5 econ journals (AER / QJE / JPE / ECMA / ReStud) plus a template for adding your own field. Adapted from Hugo Sant’Anna’s clo-author with permission.
  • Research workflow skills — /lit-review for literature synthesis, /research-ideation for hypothesis generation, /interview-me to formalize ideas, /review-paper for manuscript review, /data-analysis for end-to-end R analysis
  • Smart hooks (7) — desktop notifications (macOS/Linux); pre-compaction context snapshots to session logs (DRAFT-block default ON); progressive context-usage warnings; log-reminder.py auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set; git-guardrails.py blocks dangerous git ops (reset --hard, clean -f, push --force, add -A); claim-reconcile.py flags stale numeric claims when scripts change; plus a real git pre-commit hook (.githooks/pre-commit via ./scripts/install-hooks.sh) that runs the surface-sync + quality gates
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    -

    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 31 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

    +

    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.html b/guide/workflow-guide.html index 89f620e0d..df2ae6bf1 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.html +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.html @@ -2757,7 +2757,7 @@

    -

    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 31 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

    +

    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    -

    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

    +

    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd index 3717905d3..4bbcc0293 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd @@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ Most of the time, you just describe what you want and Claude handles the rest. E ::: {.callout-important} ## The Bottom Line -**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 31 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. +**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. ::: ::: {.callout-note} ## You Don't Need All of This on Day One -This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 50 skills, 31 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. +This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. ::: --- @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ Rules are markdown files in `.claude/rules/` that Claude loads automatically. Th ├── replication-protocol.md # paths: ["scripts/**/*.R"] — replicate first ├── exploration-folder-protocol.md # paths: ["explorations/**"] — sandbox rules ├── orchestrator-research.md # paths: ["scripts/**/*.R", "explorations/**"] — simple loop -└── ...26 path-scoped rules total +└── ...27 path-scoped rules total ``` The always-on rules are deliberately compact — together they fit well within the budget Claude reads reliably each session. `meta-governance` is a reference document for the template's dual nature (working project vs. public template) and loads passively. Path-scoped rules add rich, domain-specific guidance exactly when Claude needs it. @@ -2611,7 +2611,7 @@ This is the `/learn` lifecycle in action: discover a repeating workflow → extr 5. **Verify everything.** The verification rule exists for a reason. Never skip compilation or rendering checks. 6. **Session logs matter.** Document design decisions, not just what changed. Future-you will thank present-you. 7. **Devil's Advocate early.** Challenge slide structure before you've built 50 slides on a shaky foundation. -8. **Progressive disclosure.** Start with CLAUDE.md + 2--3 rules. Add more as your workflow matures. Newcomers should not face all 31 rules on day one. +8. **Progressive disclosure.** Start with CLAUDE.md + 2--3 rules. Add more as your workflow matures. Newcomers should not face all 32 rules on day one. 9. **Use `CLAUDE.local.md` for personal overrides.** This file is automatically gitignored and loaded alongside `CLAUDE.md`. Put machine-specific paths, personal preferences, and local tool versions here --- they won't pollute the shared repo. ::: {.callout-note collapse="true"} From 492cbbae5234d7d8185239022b1b179cd73fdb3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 15:44:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 15/19] =?UTF-8?q?fix(v2.0):=20address=20/code-review=20fin?= =?UTF-8?q?dings=20(7-angle=20high-effort,=2040/42=20survived=20=E2=86=92?= =?UTF-8?q?=20~12=20distinct)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit CRITICAL: - pre-commit gate was INVERTED: quality_score.py exits 2 on auto-fail (compile/syntax FAILURE) and 1 on score<80; the hook treated rc>=2 as a non-blocking "infra error", so an uncompilable deck sailed through while a 79/100 blocked. Now ANY nonzero rc blocks. HIGH: - git-guardrails bypassed by `git -C `/`git -c k=v` global options (patterns required git+subcommand adjacent) → added a global-options prefix; also catches `git add -- .` / `git add :/`. Verified: all bypass forms now DENY, safe forms (force-with-lease, commit, -C status) ALLOW. MEDIUM: - pre-compact + log-reminder classified plan status by WHOLE-FILE substring (APPROVED checked before DRAFT) → a DRAFT plan mentioning "APPROVED"/"COMPLETED" (a checklist item or the status legend) was mislabelled. Now parse the Status FIELD via regex. - pre-compact DRAFT-block default reverted ON→OFF (opt-in): default-ON blocked the harness's AUTOMATIC compaction, which can strand a user at the context ceiling (post-compact-restore re-injects the plan anyway). - statusline ctx-% path now mirrors context-monitor's CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR-unset fallback (sessions/default/) exactly, instead of hashing the git toplevel. - nightly-repro: date-only last_verified_on now treated as END-of-day, so a same-day file edit isn't flagged a false STALE drift. Deferred (cleanup/altitude, no incorrect output): duplicated get_session_dir/passport helpers, redundant statusline subprocess spawns, the documented working-tree-on-partial-stage trade-off. --- .claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py | 19 +++++++++++------ .claude/hooks/log-reminder.py | 12 ++++++++--- .claude/hooks/pre-compact.py | 36 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- .claude/scripts/statusline.sh | 13 +++++++----- .githooks/pre-commit | 9 +++++---- scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh | 12 ++++++++--- 6 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py b/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py index ee20b0490..0a9c8ee7c 100644 --- a/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py +++ b/.claude/hooks/git-guardrails.py @@ -35,22 +35,29 @@ import sys from pathlib import Path +# Optional git GLOBAL options that can sit between `git` and the subcommand — +# `git -C `, `git -c k=v`, `--git-dir=`, `--work-tree=`, `--no-pager`, +# `--paginate`. Without this prefix, `git -C /repo reset --hard` (or `git -c x=y +# clean -fd`) silently bypasses every guardrail. +_GO = (r"(?:-C\s+\S+\s+|-c\s+\S+\s+|--git-dir(?:=\S+\s+|\s+\S+\s+)|" + r"--work-tree(?:=\S+\s+|\s+\S+\s+)|--no-pager\s+|--paginate\s+|-p\s+)*") + # (compiled pattern, human reason, safe alternative) GIT_DENY = [ - (re.compile(r"\bgit\s+reset\s+--hard\b"), + (re.compile(r"\bgit\s+" + _GO + r"reset\s+--hard\b"), "git reset --hard discards uncommitted work irrecoverably.", "Use `git stash` (recoverable) or reset specific paths."), - (re.compile(r"\bgit\s+clean\b.*(--force\b|(? str | None: text = p.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") except Exception: continue - up = text.upper() - if "COMPLETED" in up and "STATUS" in up and "DRAFT" not in up and "APPROVED" not in up: + # Parse the Status FIELD, not a whole-file substring — a DRAFT plan that + # merely mentions "APPROVED"/"COMPLETED" must not be mis-labelled. + m = re.search(r"^\s*\**\s*status\s*\**\s*:\s*\**\s*" + r"(draft|approved|completed|implemented|in[ -]?progress)", + text, re.IGNORECASE | re.MULTILINE) + v = m.group(1).lower() if m else "in-progress" + if v.startswith(("completed", "implemented")): continue - status = "APPROVED" if "APPROVED" in up else ("DRAFT" if "DRAFT" in up else "in-progress") + status = "APPROVED" if v.startswith("approved") else ("DRAFT" if v.startswith("draft") else "in-progress") return f"{p.name} ({status})" return None diff --git a/.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py b/.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py index 123d843bf..62cee608d 100755 --- a/.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py +++ b/.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py @@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ Fires before context compaction to: 1. Capture current state (active plan, current task, recent decisions) so post-compact-restore.py can surface it afterwards. -2. Block compaction once when an active plan is still DRAFT, to avoid - losing mid-plan context before the user has approved it. ON by - default (v2.0); opt out via CLAUDE_PRECOMPACT_BLOCK_ON_DRAFT=0. - Blocks at most once per DRAFT plan, fail-open — a user can always - re-run compaction to proceed. +2. OPTIONALLY block compaction once when an active plan is still DRAFT, + to avoid losing mid-plan context before approval. **Opt-in** via + CLAUDE_PRECOMPACT_BLOCK_ON_DRAFT=1 (default OFF — the v2.0 default-ON + flip was reverted: blocking the harness's *automatic* compaction can + strand a user at the context ceiling, and post-compact-restore.py + re-injects the plan afterward anyway). Blocks at most once per DRAFT + plan, fail-open. The blocking protocol follows modern Claude Code semantics: exit 0 + JSON {"decision": "block", "reason": "..."} on stdout. @@ -61,16 +63,18 @@ def find_active_plan(project_dir: str) -> dict | None: for plan_file in plan_files[:3]: # Check last 3 plans content = plan_file.read_text() - # Skip completed plans - if "COMPLETED" in content.upper(): - continue - - # Extract status - status = "in_progress" - if "APPROVED" in content.upper(): - status = "approved" - elif "DRAFT" in content.upper(): - status = "draft" + # Parse the plan's Status FIELD (e.g. "**Status:** DRAFT"), not a + # whole-file substring — a DRAFT plan whose body merely mentions + # "APPROVED" or "COMPLETED" (a checklist item, or the legend + # "Status (DRAFT/APPROVED/COMPLETED)") must not be mis-classified. + m = re.search(r"^\s*\**\s*status\s*\**\s*:\s*\**\s*" + r"(draft|approved|completed|implemented|in[ -]?progress)", + content, re.IGNORECASE | re.MULTILINE) + v = m.group(1).lower() if m else "in_progress" + if v.startswith(("completed", "implemented")): + continue # skip finished plans + status = "approved" if v.startswith("approved") else ( + "draft" if v.startswith("draft") else "in_progress") # Find current task (first unchecked item) current_task = None @@ -151,7 +155,7 @@ def should_block_draft(plan_info: dict | None) -> tuple[bool, str]: which would make this guard fire again on every subsequent compaction of the same DRAFT plan. """ - if os.environ.get("CLAUDE_PRECOMPACT_BLOCK_ON_DRAFT", "1") != "1": + if os.environ.get("CLAUDE_PRECOMPACT_BLOCK_ON_DRAFT", "0") != "1": return False, "" if not plan_info or plan_info.get("status") != "draft": return False, "" diff --git a/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh b/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh index 3bcacdd95..4f7ce4789 100755 --- a/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh +++ b/.claude/scripts/statusline.sh @@ -64,11 +64,14 @@ fi # Context % — best-effort, persisted by context-monitor.py under the # session dir keyed by md5(project_dir)[:8]. ctx="" -# Hash the SAME key context-monitor.py writes under: CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR if set, -# else the git toplevel (the project root) — NOT the raw cwd, which differs in -# a subdirectory and would point at the wrong sessions folder. -proj="${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-$(git -C "$cwd" rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || printf '%s' "$cwd")}" -hash="$(printf '%s' "$proj" | python3 -c 'import sys,hashlib; print(hashlib.md5(sys.stdin.read().encode()).hexdigest()[:8])' 2>/dev/null)" +# Mirror context-monitor.py's get_session_dir() EXACTLY: CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR set → +# hash it; unset/empty → the writer falls back to sessions/default/, so do the same +# (hashing the git toplevel here would point at the wrong folder on that path). +if [ -n "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-}" ]; then + hash="$(printf '%s' "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR" | python3 -c 'import sys,hashlib; print(hashlib.md5(sys.stdin.read().encode()).hexdigest()[:8])' 2>/dev/null)" +else + hash="default" +fi pct_file="$HOME/.claude/sessions/${hash}/context-pct.txt" [ -f "$pct_file" ] && ctx="ctx $(cat "$pct_file" 2>/dev/null)%" set -e diff --git a/.githooks/pre-commit b/.githooks/pre-commit index 2f0f2aec7..63fd4ec02 100755 --- a/.githooks/pre-commit +++ b/.githooks/pre-commit @@ -72,11 +72,12 @@ else [ -f "$f" ] || continue python3 scripts/quality_score.py "$f" rc=$? - if [ "$rc" -eq 1 ]; then - echo "✗ quality gate: '$f' scored below 80." >&2 + # quality_score.py: rc 2 = auto-fail (compile/syntax FAILURE), rc 1 = + # score < 80 (or scorer error / file-not-found). BOTH must block — a + # file that fails to compile is the worst case, not an "infra error". + if [ "$rc" -ne 0 ]; then + echo "✗ quality gate: '$f' failed (rc=$rc — 2=compile/syntax failure, 1=score<80 or scorer error)." >&2 FAIL=1 - elif [ "$rc" -ge 2 ]; then - echo "⚠ quality_score.py errored on '$f' (rc=$rc) — not blocking on infra error; review manually." >&2 fi done <<< "$STAGED" else diff --git a/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh b/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh index 6b447a56d..c7477907c 100755 --- a/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh +++ b/scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh @@ -26,9 +26,15 @@ if not pdir.is_dir(): print("no quality_reports/passports/ — nothing to check"); sys.exit(0) def parse_iso(s): - s = s.strip().strip('"').strip("'").replace("Z", "+00:00") - try: return datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(s).timestamp() - except Exception: return None + s = s.strip().strip('"').strip("'") + date_only = ("T" not in s) and (":" not in s) # e.g. "2026-06-01" + try: + dt = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(s.replace("Z", "+00:00")) + if date_only: # treat as END of that day so a + dt = dt.replace(hour=23, minute=59, second=59) # same-day edit isn't STALE + return dt.timestamp() + except Exception: + return None stale = [] for pf in sorted(pdir.glob("*.yaml")): From 1ebee45d8fd617e57bbcef93871858d0506b771a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 16:47:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 16/19] feat(v2.0): add /diagnose skill + coherence cleanup; record gold-standard coverage audit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit GOLD-STANDARD AUDIT (multi-agent, 63 agents / 6 coverage finders + adversarial verify / 5 coherence finders + verify / synthesis + completeness critic): - Verdict: gold standard for DiD specifically + a strong general scaffold, but NOT yet for empirical econ in general on the METHODS axis (IV, RD, matching/PS, panel-CRE, RCT analysis are thin/absent). Coherence side is healthy — work is additive, not subtractive. - Full report + standing roadmap: quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md - Methods build-out DEFERRED by decision. When built (critic-adopted order): Step-0 shared quasi-experimental rule → /iv-2sls → /matching-weighting (ahead of RDD) → /rdd-analysis → /panel-models → /rct-analysis as a first-class P0. New flagships are COMMUNITY-STANDARD (orchestrate rdrobust/ivreg/MatchIt, validate against those packages) — only DiD carries the 1e-6 "his-name-on-it" bar. COHERENCE FIXES (the cheap, confirmed cleanup): - CHANGELOG count drift: v2.0 inventory line said "30 rules / +2 rules" → 32 / +4 (applied summary-parity.md: re-verified every claim in the paragraph vs disk, not a surgical swap). - deep-audit/SKILL.md:87 "rules/guide" read as a literal path → reworded to the concrete targets (.claude/rules/*.md and the guide). - Inspected but intentionally NOT changed (gate-green non-issues): r-package-check missing Write (it saves via Bash), argument-hint on 2 no-arg skills (optional, no house convention), seven-pass-review positioning note (already present at line 15). NEW SKILL — /diagnose (the one net-new idea from a fresh pass over mattpocock/skills; the other transferables — /new-skill, /scaffold-exercises, git-guardrails — were already taken in v2.0, and the rest are TS-specific or already covered better here): - Root-cause a wrong/failing empirical result: reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix, tuned for research-code bugs (type coercion, NA/merge blow-ups, clustering/SE, seed/version drift). Competing-hypothesis fan-out via Task; --no-fix. - Full count-surface wiring (skills 50→51): README count + skills table row, CLAUDE.md quick-ref, guide source + rendered HTML, landing page, skill template, CHANGELOG. - Gates green: surface-sync (26 assertions + 2 table rows), check-skill-integrity, model-versions. --- .claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md | 2 +- .claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md | 124 ++++++++ CHANGELOG.md | 5 +- CLAUDE.md | 2 +- README.md | 3 +- docs/index.html | 4 +- docs/workflow-guide.html | 4 +- guide/workflow-guide.qmd | 6 +- ...2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md | 273 ++++++++++++++++++ templates/skill-template.md | 2 +- 10 files changed, 412 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md create mode 100644 quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md diff --git a/.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md index 21cfaab0c..5858e19e7 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Focus: `.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md` and `.claude/rules/*.md` - Rule `paths:` reference existing directories - No contradictions between rules - CLAUDE.md skills table matches actual skill directories 1:1 -- All templates referenced in rules/guide exist in `templates/` +- All templates referenced in `.claude/rules/*.md` and the guide (`guide/workflow-guide.qmd`) exist in `templates/` #### Agent 4: Cross-Document Consistency Focus: `README.md`, `docs/index.html`, `docs/workflow-guide.html` diff --git a/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f4052c223 --- /dev/null +++ b/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +--- +name: diagnose +description: Root-cause a failing or wrong empirical result with a disciplined reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix loop, instead of guessing-and-poking. Use when the user says "why is my regression wrong", "this number changed", "my script errors out", "the result won't reproduce", "debug this", "this estimate looks wrong", or "it worked yesterday". Tuned for research code (R/Stata/Python): data-type coercion, NA/merge blow-ups, factor levels, clustering/SE choices, seeds, package-version drift. +argument-hint: "[file, script, or short description of the symptom] [--no-fix]" +allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Edit", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash", "Task"] +effort: high +--- + +# /diagnose — Root-Cause a Wrong or Failing Result + +Find *why* an analysis errors, returns the wrong number, or won't reconcile — with a structured debugging loop rather than scattershot edits. Adapted from the `diagnose` pattern in [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills), reshaped for empirical research code where the bug is usually a *silent* wrong number, not a crash. + +The discipline: **never edit before you can reproduce, and never fix before you can explain.** A guessed fix that makes the symptom disappear without a named root cause is how a wrong number gets *laundered* into a published table. + +## When to use + +- A regression / estimate returns a value you can't explain, or one that changed when nothing should have. +- A script errors out and the stack trace doesn't point at the real cause. +- A result "won't reproduce" — different number on re-run, on another machine, or after a package update. +- A replication claim fails `/audit-reproducibility` and you need to localize *which* step drifted. + +**Use a sibling instead when:** you want a code-quality pass with no specific symptom ([`/review-r`](../review-r/SKILL.md)); you want to re-verify *all* numeric claims against code ([`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md)); or the environment itself is the suspect and you need to snapshot it ([`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md)). + +## Phases + +### Phase 0 — Pin the symptom (expected vs. actual) + +State the bug as a falsifiable gap before touching anything: + +- **Expected:** the value/behaviour you believe is correct, and *why* (a prior run, a paper table, a hand calculation, a theoretical sign). +- **Actual:** the value/error observed now, copied verbatim (full message, not a paraphrase). +- **Tolerance:** for a numeric bug, the threshold that separates "same" from "different" (see [`replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — don't chase 1e-12 noise; don't wave away a 5% gap). + +If expected/actual can't be stated, the task is *understanding*, not diagnosis — stop and clarify first. + +### Phase 1 — Reproduce deterministically (get a reliable red) + +A bug you can't reproduce on demand can't be fixed, only hidden. + +1. Fix every source of nondeterminism: set the seed, pin the working directory, record `sessionInfo()` / `pip freeze` / Stata `version` (lean on [`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md)). +2. Re-run the smallest unit that exhibits the bug and confirm it fails **every time**. An intermittent failure is its own hypothesis (uninitialised RNG, order-dependent merge, race in parallel code) — note it and carry it into Phase 3. + +### Phase 2 — Minimise to an MWE + +Shrink until the bug sits in the open: + +- **Data:** subset to the smallest rows/columns that still reproduce (often one group, one period, a handful of rows). +- **Code:** strip the pipeline to the shortest path from input to wrong output; comment out everything the symptom survives without. +- Each removal that *keeps* the bug is information; each that *kills* it is a stronger signal — record which. + +The MWE is the deliverable even if the fix is later trivial: it's what makes the root cause undeniable. + +### Phase 3 — Hypothesise (enumerate, then rank) + +List candidate causes *before* testing any — a written list beats poking because it prevents fixating on the first idea. For research code, walk the usual suspects: + +- **Types & coercion** — a numeric read as character/factor; integer overflow; date parsed wrong; `TRUE/FALSE` ↔ `1/0`. +- **Missingness** — `NA` dropped silently, `na.rm` flipping a mean, listwise deletion changing the sample mid-pipeline. +- **Joins & shape** — a many-to-many merge inflating rows; duplicate keys; an unbalanced panel where balance was assumed. +- **Specification** — wrong clustering level, fixed-effects absorbed twice, a control that is a bad control, a lag/lead off by one. +- **Sample** — a filter that runs before vs. after a transform; an outlier rule applied inconsistently. +- **Environment** — a package/Stata version bump that changed a default; a seed that moved; locale/encoding. + +For a genuinely ambiguous bug, fan out the top competing hypotheses to parallel `Task` subagents (one per hypothesis, `context: fork`), each instructed to *try to confirm its own cause on the MWE* and report back — the loop-first analogue of asking three colleagues at once (see [`orchestrator-protocol.md`](../../rules/orchestrator-protocol.md)). + +### Phase 4 — Instrument & localize (bisect, don't stare) + +Test the ranked hypotheses cheaply: + +- **Bisect the pipeline** — check the intermediate value at the midpoint of the data flow; the bug is upstream or downstream of it. Repeat. Binary search finds the offending line in `log2(n)` steps, not `n`. +- **Bisect history** — if it "worked yesterday", `git bisect` (or compare against the last-good commit/output) to pin the change that introduced it. +- **Instrument** — print/inspect types, row counts, `NA` counts, and the value at each stage; the stage where expected and actual diverge *is* the location. + +End Phase 4 with a one-sentence root cause naming the exact line/step and mechanism. + +### Phase 5 — Fix & verify (then guard against regression) + +Unless `--no-fix` is set: + +1. Apply the **minimal** fix at the root cause — not a downstream patch that masks it (prefer fixing the bad merge over filtering its duplicate rows afterward). +2. Re-run the MWE → confirm `actual == expected` within the Phase-0 tolerance. +3. Re-run the **full** unit and any dependent step → confirm the fix didn't move another number. If the result feeds a manuscript claim, re-check it (cross-ref the passport in [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md)). +4. Note a **prevention**: the assertion, test, or type-check that would have caught this earlier (a `stopifnot(nrow(df) == n)`, a post-merge row-count check) — propose it, don't silently add a test suite. + +With `--no-fix`, stop after the root cause is named and report it for the user to fix by hand. + +## Output / report format + +Write a short diagnosis to `quality_reports/diagnoses/YYYY-MM-DD_.md`: + +- **Symptom:** expected vs. actual (+ tolerance). +- **MWE:** the minimal input/code that reproduces it. +- **Root cause:** the exact line/step and mechanism. +- **Fix:** the diff applied (or, with `--no-fix`, the recommended change). +- **Verification:** MWE + full-run re-check results. +- **Prevention:** the guard that would have caught it. + +Plus a chat summary leading with the one-line root cause. + +## Exit behavior + +- **Reproduced, root-caused, fixed, re-verified:** exit with the root cause, the diff, and the prevention note. +- **`--no-fix`:** stop at a named root cause; write nothing to source, only the report. +- **Cannot reproduce after Phase 1:** report the nondeterminism as the finding (it *is* the bug class) and propose how to make the analysis deterministic; do not edit blindly. +- **Symptom not statable (no expected/actual):** stop in Phase 0 and ask for the expected value — diagnosis needs a target. + +## Flags + +- `--no-fix` — Diagnose only: run through naming the root cause (Phases 0–4) and write the report, but make **no** edit to source. Use when you want to apply the fix yourself, or when the file is shared/load-bearing and an automated edit is inappropriate. + +## Cross-references + +- [`.claude/skills/review-r/SKILL.md`](../review-r/SKILL.md) — code-quality review with no specific symptom (diagnose is symptom-driven). +- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — verify all numeric claims against code; diagnose localizes a *single* failing one. +- [`.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) — snapshot the environment when version/seed drift is the suspect. +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — the tolerance contract that defines "same number". +- [`.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md`](../../rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) — the fan-out primitive used for competing-hypothesis testing in Phase 3. + +## What this skill does NOT do + +- **Review code with no symptom** — that is [`/review-r`](../review-r/SKILL.md). Diagnose needs an expected-vs-actual gap to chase. +- **Re-audit every claim in a paper** — that is [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md). Diagnose fixes one bug deeply. +- **Build a test suite** — it proposes the single guard that would have caught *this* bug; standing test infrastructure is separate dev work. +- **Commit the fix** — branching / committing is [`/commit`](../commit/SKILL.md)'s job. diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 0cabc2fc0..f18ff44bf 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ If you forked v1.x, here is what is *materially different* now (one-stop summary **If you do only one thing after pulling v2.0:** run `./scripts/install-hooks.sh` to activate the pre-commit gate. -**Inventory at release: 50 skills, 18 agents, 30 rules, 7 hooks** (was 38 / 18 / 28 / 6 at v1.10.0). Net: +14 skills, −2 retired; +2 rules; +2 hooks, −1 retired. New: 9 references (3 added), 2 output-styles, CI. +**Inventory at release: 51 skills, 18 agents, 32 rules, 7 hooks** (was 38 / 18 / 28 / 6 at v1.10.0). Net: +15 skills, −2 retired; +4 rules; +2 hooks, −1 retired. New: 9 references (3 added), 2 output-styles, CI. ### Added — economist "producer" skills (the biggest gold-standard gap) @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ If you forked v1.x, here is what is *materially different* now (one-stop summary - **Real orchestration runtime** — `.claude/references/orchestration-schemas.md` (the `FINDING`/`SCORECARD`/`RUN_CONFIG` contracts + the post-judge **hallucination gate**) and `agent-fleet.md` (the 18-agent manifest with tiers). `orchestrator-protocol.md` rewritten from *pattern* to *runtime*. - **Event-driven + scheduled autonomy** — `claim-reconcile.py` (flags stale numeric claims when an analysis script/output changes), `.claude/references/scheduled-routines.md` + `scripts/nightly-repro-check.sh`, and **`/triage-inbox`** (schedulable, human-gated email/calendar triage + referee-obligations tracker). - **`/new-skill`** — scaffolds a convention-compliant skill that passes `check-skill-integrity` on the first try (adapted from `mattpocock/skills`' write-a-skill). +- **`/diagnose`** — root-cause a wrong/failing empirical result with a disciplined **reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix** loop (the net-new idea from a fresh pass over `mattpocock/skills`, reshaped for research code where the bug is usually a *silent wrong number*, not a crash; competing-hypothesis fan-out via `Task`, `--no-fix` to localize without editing). - **Output styles** — `.claude/output-styles/academic-writing.md` and `referee.md` (the template shipped zero before). - **CI** — `.github/workflows/gates.yml` (surface-sync + integrity + model-version checks on every PR) and `deploy.yml` (re-render the guide → `docs/` on push to `main`). - **Enforcing pre-commit hook** — `.githooks/pre-commit` + `scripts/install-hooks.sh` (opt-in via `core.hooksPath`). @@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ If you forked v1.x, here is what is *materially different* now (one-stop summary ### Notes -- Count surfaces (README, CLAUDE.md, guide source + rendered HTML, landing page, skill template) updated to 50 / 18 / 30 / 7; `check-surface-sync.sh` (now including the table-row gate), `check-skill-integrity.py`, and `check-model-versions.sh` all pass. +- Count surfaces (README, CLAUDE.md, guide source + rendered HTML, landing page, skill template) updated to 51 / 18 / 32 / 7; `check-surface-sync.sh` (now including the table-row gate), `check-skill-integrity.py`, and `check-model-versions.sh` all pass. - Explicit **non-goals** (documented, not omissions): no autonomous daemon, no plugin marketplace, no multi-estimator production fleet (one `/did-event-study` proof-of-concept), no challenger→auditor→ledger pipeline (the zero-cost `EXPLAINED` mechanism instead), `MEMORY.md` stays the committed memory backend. --- diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md index 66ba18277..befd2de3e 100644 --- a/CLAUDE.md +++ b/CLAUDE.md @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The full table of all skills lives in [README.md](README.md#skills-claudeskills) - **Slides / teaching:** `/create-lecture` `/compile-latex` `/deploy` `/qa-quarto` `/slide-excellence` `/syllabus` `/teach-from-paper` `/scaffold-exercises` - **Papers / review:** `/review-paper` (`--peer`) `/seven-pass-review` `/respond-to-referees` `/verify-claims` `/proofread` `/humanize` -- **Data / reproducibility:** `/data-analysis` `/did-event-study` `/simulation-study` `/audit-reproducibility` `/replication-package` `/capture-environment` `/power-analysis` `/disclosure-check` +- **Data / reproducibility:** `/data-analysis` `/did-event-study` `/simulation-study` `/audit-reproducibility` `/diagnose` `/replication-package` `/capture-environment` `/power-analysis` `/disclosure-check` - **Research / writing:** `/interview-me` `/lit-review` `/research-ideation` `/preregister` `/grant-proposal` `/data-management-plan` - **Meta / workflow:** `/commit` `/learn` `/new-skill` `/checkpoint` `/context-status` `/deep-audit` `/coauthor-brief` `/triage-inbox` diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9a09f0a94..f7109e568 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — ## What's Included
    -18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules, 7 hooks (click to expand) +18 agents, 51 skills, 32 rules, 7 hooks (click to expand) ### Agents (`.claude/agents/`) @@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ This workflow is designed as a **single hub for an entire research program** — | `/data-management-plan` (v2.0) | Funder-compliant Data Management Plan (NSF / NIH DMS 2023 / ERC / Horizon Europe) — folds in disclosure-avoidance + IRB constraints and a replication-package/environment plan; outputs a draft + funder checklist | | `/coauthor-brief` (v2.0) | Collaborator handoff brief — what changed since last brief, per-artifact state, open questions, reproduce-locally + restricted-data access steps | | `/triage-inbox` (v2.0) | Schedulable academic inbox + calendar triage via Gmail/Calendar MCP — classifies referee requests, R&R/editor, co-author threads, seminar/conference invites, grant/admin deadlines; proposes one human-gated action each (draft reply, calendar hold, `/new-referee-project`, `/coauthor-brief`, snooze); emits a digest + referee-obligations tracker; degrades gracefully when MCP is absent; never auto-sends | +| `/diagnose` (v2.0) | Root-cause a wrong/failing empirical result — disciplined reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix loop; tuned for research-code bugs (type coercion, NA/merge blow-ups, clustering/SE choice, seed/package-version drift); `--no-fix` localizes without editing | | `/syllabus` (v2.0) | Build/restructure a course syllabus from a topic or reading list — course description + prerequisites, week-by-week schedule (topic→readings→deliverables), measurable learning objectives, assessment scheme + rubric, standard policies (late work / AI use / integrity / accessibility), and a per-week work-list mapping weeks to `/create-lecture` decks; economics-aware (PhD metrics/micro/macro sequences, undergrad) | | `/teach-from-paper` (v2.0) | Reads a paper end-to-end and pitches it to a stated audience level — lecture outline (motivation → setup → key result → method → takeaways), the 3-5 results worth presenting with intuition, a slide skeleton for `/create-lecture`, discussion questions, and a problem-set brief for `/scaffold-exercises` | | `/respond-to-eval` (v2.0) | Teaching analogue of `/respond-to-referees` — clusters course-eval comments into themes, weights by frequency (signal vs noise), classifies Keep / Change / Investigate / Out-of-scope, and drafts concrete changes mapped to the syllabus + slide decks; saves the plan to `quality_reports/teaching/` | diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index 49d373243..2d812e0d1 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ - + @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@

    What's in the template

  • 18 specialized agents — proofreader, slide auditor, pedagogy reviewer, R reviewer, TikZ critic, domain reviewer, adversarial QA pair, translator, verifier, claim-verifier (Chain-of-Verification), the simulated-peer-review trio (editor, domain referee, methods referee), the Monte Carlo sim-reviewer, the CRAN-focused R package-reviewer, the AI-voice humanize-auditor, and the promote-memory council — all pinned to a fixed model + effort tier (no longer inherit)
  • Adversarial critic-fixer loop — two agents that check each other's work and loop until dry (converge after 2 consecutive clean rounds; a 5-round cap is only a fallback) — the critic can't fix, the fixer can't approve
  • Quality scoring with mandatory verification — every file scored 0–100; /commit halts below 80 (user can override with an explicit reason); skills that implement the orchestrator pattern verify every output before reporting done
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  • 50 slash commands + 32 context-aware rules + 7 hooks — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, /replication-package, /disclosure-check, /grant-proposal, /syllabus, /triage-inbox, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, R conventions, and the ambient prompt-shaping rule (no /prompt command)
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  • 51 slash commands + 32 context-aware rules + 7 hooks — /compile-latex, /proofread, /deploy, /commit, /qa-quarto, /lit-review, /review-paper, /respond-to-referees, /new-diagram, /data-analysis, /simulation-study, /r-package-check, /audit-reproducibility, /checkpoint, /preregister, /replication-package, /disclosure-check, /grant-proposal, /syllabus, /triage-inbox, and more — plus quality gates, TikZ prevention/measurement, notation consistency, R conventions, and the ambient prompt-shaping rule (no /prompt command)
  • Simulated peer review — /review-paper --peer <journal> runs a full editorial pipeline: editor desk review, two blind referees with deliberately different dispositions (STRUCTURAL / CREDIBILITY / MEASUREMENT / POLICY / THEORY / SKEPTIC), editorial synthesis with FATAL / ADDRESSABLE / TASTE classification. Calibrated to 5 econ journals (AER / QJE / JPE / ECMA / ReStud) plus a template for adding your own field. Adapted from Hugo Sant’Anna’s clo-author with permission.
  • Research workflow skills — /lit-review for literature synthesis, /research-ideation for hypothesis generation, /interview-me to formalize ideas, /review-paper for manuscript review, /data-analysis for end-to-end R analysis
  • Smart hooks (7) — desktop notifications (macOS/Linux); pre-compaction context snapshots to session logs (DRAFT-block default ON); progressive context-usage warnings; log-reminder.py auto-writes the session log on every meaningful change-set; git-guardrails.py blocks dangerous git ops (reset --hard, clean -f, push --force, add -A); claim-reconcile.py flags stale numeric claims when scripts change; plus a real git pre-commit hook (.githooks/pre-commit via ./scripts/install-hooks.sh) that runs the surface-sync + quality gates
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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 51 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 51 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd index 4bbcc0293..a08675e7b 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd @@ -155,13 +155,13 @@ Most of the time, you just describe what you want and Claude handles the rest. E ::: {.callout-important} ## The Bottom Line -**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. +**You talk, Claude orchestrates.** The 18 agents, 51 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don't have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work. ::: ::: {.callout-note} ## You Don't Need All of This on Day One -This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. +This guide describes the full system --- 18 agents, 51 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. **Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2--3 skills** (`/compile-latex`, `/proofread`, `/commit`). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you're ready. ::: --- @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ argument-hint: "[filename without .tex extension]" ::: {.callout-note} ## Built-In Skills -Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template's 50: `/batch` orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), `/simplify` runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and `/debug` helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above. +Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template's 51: `/batch` orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), `/simplify` runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and `/debug` helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above. ::: ## Agents --- Specialized Reviewers {#agents---specialized-reviewers} diff --git a/quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md b/quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b9c45b667 --- /dev/null +++ b/quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md @@ -0,0 +1,273 @@ +# Gold-Standard Coverage + Coherence Audit + +**Date:** 2026-06-09 · **Method:** multi-agent workflow (63 agents, 6 coverage finders + adversarial verify, 5 coherence finders + verify, synthesis + completeness critic) + +**Bar:** "gold standard for empirical economics research IN GENERAL, with DiD as the proven flagship." + +**True surface:** 50 skills · 18 agents · 32 rules · 9 references. + + +## Verdict + +> No — the repo is a gold standard for DiD specifically, and a strong general-purpose research-workflow scaffold, but it is NOT yet a gold standard for empirical economics IN GENERAL on the methods axis. The reduced-form world it serves (~55% of top-5 empirical econ per its own discipline-card) is dominated by DiD, IV, and RD; only DiD has a flagship (deep skill + HARD-rule companion + verification contract anchored on Pedro's own packages). IV and RD exist only as passing mentions in lists and a 'tailor as needed' line in /stata-replication, with no diagnostic workflow, no robust-inference guidance, no companion rule. Selection-on-observables (matching/PS/IPW) has zero implementation surface. The three moves that would most change the answer: (1) build a /iv-2sls flagship (highest-frequency uncovered workhorse, carries weak-instrument inference + LATE/MTE as bundled modules); (2) build a /rdd-analysis flagship (sharp+fuzzy, rdrobust/rddensity, mirrors the /did-event-study pattern); (3) ship a shared quasi-experimental-design rule + a selection-on-observables surface (matching/PS/IPW/overlap), so every new method inherits one inference/robustness substrate instead of re-deriving it. The coherence side is healthy: nearly all overlap findings resolve to 'leave as is' (the review/verification/memory families are intentional, complementary layers), so the work is almost entirely additive — build the missing method flagships, not untangle existing ones. + + +## Build map — flagship candidates + + +### [P0] `/iv-2sls (IV / 2SLS flagship, with weak-instrument inference and LATE/MTE as bundled modules)` + +IV/2SLS is the highest-frequency uncovered workhorse in reduced-form econ (the dominant ~55% paper-type per the repo's own discipline-card lists DiD, IV, RD as the core trio). Current coverage is passing mentions only (methods-referee F>10 sanity line, power-analysis 'weak-instrument-aware' phrase, lists in research-ideation/grant-proposal) — no diagnostic workflow, no robust inference, no companion rule. Build to general best practice mirroring /did-event-study: design+specification, first-stage diagnostics (effective F / Kleibergen-Paap), weak-ID-robust inference (Anderson-Rubin, Stock-Yogo), and LATE-vs-ATE interpretation. CONFIRMED: weak-instrument inference and LATE/MTE are genuinely absent as substantive coverage; fold them in as modules of this skill rather than separate skills so IV is taught as a coherent whole (what it identifies, on whom, and when it is credible). Package orchestration: ivreg/estimatr/ivDiag (R), ivreg2/weakivtest (Stata). + +*depends_on:* shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule (see consolidate_retire); reuses /power-analysis + /simulation-study harness for weak-instrument simulation-based power + + +### [P0] `/rdd-analysis (Regression discontinuity — sharp and fuzzy)` + +RDD is the third leg of the reduced-form trio (~10% of applied-micro reduced-form work) and, like IV, exists only in lists plus a 'RD with rdrobust' tailoring line in /stata-replication — no skill, no rule, no diagnostic suite. Build to general best practice on the /did-event-study template: continuity/no-manipulation verification, data-driven bandwidth selection and robustness, local-polynomial estimation, balance and covariate-smoothness at the cutoff, McCrary/rddensity manipulation test, fake-cutoff placebos, bandwidth sensitivity. Support both sharp and fuzzy (fuzzy shares the first-stage/compliers logic with the IV flagship, so build IV first). Package orchestration: rdrobust, rddensity, rdpower. + +*depends_on:* /iv-2sls (fuzzy RD reuses IV first-stage/LATE machinery); shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule + + +### [P0] `did-conventions.md / /did-event-study (the proven flagship — already shipped; keep as the template all others copy)` — **⟨anchored on Pedro's packages⟩** + +This is the existing gold-standard exemplar, anchored on Pedro's own packages (did/DRDID/didFF/contdid) with a HARD-rule companion, a verification contract (R is the benchmark; ports must match to 1e-6), and an 8-phase diagnostic pipeline. pedro_resource=TRUE here only. It is NOT a build candidate — it is listed as P0 to mark it as the reference architecture every other flagship in this map must replicate (deep skill + HARD-rule companion + verification + sensitivity-not-gate framing). Continuous-dose (contdid) is flagged ALPHA in the rule; keep that caveat as the API stabilizes. + +*depends_on:* none — it is the dependency target / pattern source + + +### [P1] `/matching-weighting (selection-on-observables: matching / propensity score / IPW / entropy balancing)` + +CONFIRMED genuinely thin: PS appears only inside the DiD doubly-robust context (did-conventions PS trimming) and as an editor overlap/common-support peeve; zero standalone selection-on-observables workflow and zero matching/weighting package surface in the repo. Standard across observational work in many econ subfields and adjacent disciplines the template targets. Build to general best practice: PS specification + diagnostics, balance assessment (SMD/Love plot), overlap/common-support verification, estimator choice (matching, IPW, AIPW/doubly-robust, entropy balancing), and sensitivity to unobserved confounding (E-value / Rosenbaum bounds). Natural conceptual sibling to the DiD DR estimator already in the repo, so it strengthens the existing flagship's foundations. Packages: MatchIt, WeightIt, cobalt (R). + +*depends_on:* shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule + + +### [P1] `/panel-models (correlated random effects / Mundlak + generic panel FE guardrails; dynamic-panel GMM as a P2 module)` + +Two CONFIRMED/PLAUSIBLE panel gaps consolidate into one flagship. (a) Mundlak/CRE is CONFIRMED entirely absent — no FE-vs-RE specification testing, no Hausman/CRE framework. (b) Generic (non-DiD) panel FE is PLAUSIBLE-thin: TWFE is taught well but ONLY inside the staggered-DiD context; standard panel-FE settings, within-estimator asymptotics, Nickell bias, and clustering guardrails have no home. Build to general best practice as a single panel-estimation skill that covers when TWFE is correct (clean 2-period/static designs), CRE/Mundlak as the short-panel alternative, FE-vs-RE choice, and proper clustering — explicitly cross-referencing /did-event-study for the 'under staggered timing, do not headline TWFE' boundary so the two never contradict. Dynamic-panel GMM (Arellano-Bond / system GMM, CONFIRMED absent) is a lower-frequency macro/finance/growth tool — ship it as a P2 module inside this skill, not its own flagship. + +*depends_on:* shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule; reuses /data-analysis fixest panel scaffolding + + +### [P2] `/synth-control (synthetic control / synthetic DiD)` + +CONFIRMED thin (three list-mentions only), but deliberately deprioritized: the v2.0-backlog records an explicit, reasoned decision NOT to ship a standalone synthetic-control estimator skill, citing the risk that 'a plausible-but-wrong estimator launders authority.' Honor that decision — keep at P2 and, if built, build it as a verification-and-diagnostics wrapper (donor-pool/weight transparency, pre-fit balance, placebo/permutation inference) around a vetted package (synth, synthdid, scpi), NOT as a from-scratch estimator. Synthetic DiD (Arkhangelsky et al.) is the natural bridge to the DiD flagship and could alternatively live as a --synthetic note cross-referenced from /did-event-study. + +*depends_on:* /did-event-study (synthetic DiD bridges to it); shared inference rule for placebo/permutation inference + + +## Extend generic (module, not a new skill) + +- **Regression kink design** — _module within /rdd-analysis (or the shared quasi-experimental design rule)_ : CONFIRMED absent, medium priority. Do NOT build a standalone skill — kink shares continuity/local-polynomial logic with RDD. Add as an optional module inside /rdd-analysis once that flagship exists (it is a slope-change-at-threshold variant of the same machinery). +- **Bunching / notch design (excess-mass and counterfactual-density tests)** — _module within /rdd-analysis_ : CONFIRMED absent, medium priority and lower-frequency (labor/public econ niche). Saez(2010)/Kleven-Waseem framework is specialized; do not spin up its own flagship. Add as a narrow module within /rdd-analysis or the shared threshold/discontinuity rule, after IV and RDD ship. +- **Local projections / impulse-response / dynamic causal effects (Jorda 2005)** — _deferred module (future time-series-causal skill) — not /data-analysis_ : CONFIRMED absent, medium priority and mostly macro/time-series (less central to the applied-micro core the repo serves). Better as a future module than a standalone flagship; if a time-series-causal surface ever emerges, fold it there. Do not build ahead of the reduced-form trio. +- **Weak-instrument inference / many-instrument asymptotics** — _module within /iv-2sls + a paragraph in the shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule_ : CONFIRMED a real gap, but explicitly NOT a separate skill — it is core IV content. Fold Anderson-Rubin / Stock-Yogo / effective-F / many-instrument guidance directly into the /iv-2sls flagship and reference it from the shared inference rule. Listed here only to record the routing decision (extend the IV flagship, do not create a standalone surface). +- **LATE / MTE / complier interpretation** — _module within /iv-2sls_ : PLAUSIBLE gap; pedagogical and interpretive rather than a separate workflow. Ship as the 'what does IV identify' module of /iv-2sls (LATE vs ATE, monotonicity/exclusion/relevance, external-validity-only-on-compliers). Do not create a standalone skill. +- **Dynamic-panel GMM (Arellano-Bond / system GMM)** — _P2 module within /panel-models_ : CONFIRMED absent but lower-frequency (macro/finance/growth). Ship as a P2 module inside the /panel-models flagship (Nickell bias, lag structure, first-difference vs system GMM, instrument-count/overid diagnostics), not its own flagship. + +## Consolidate / retire / fix + +- **create-new-rule** (new file: .claude/rules/quasi-experimental-conventions.md (HARD/SHOULD companion for IV, RDD, matching/PS — the sibling to did-conventions.md)): The single highest-leverage coherence move. did-conventions.md proves the pattern: a deep skill needs a HARD-rule companion. Rather than each new method flagship (/iv-2sls, /rdd-analysis, /matching-weighting, /panel-models) re-deriving inference and robustness, create ONE shared design rule that states the per-method HARD guardrails and points to the existing inference-robustness.md for multiple-testing/clustering/spec-robustness substrate and to /power-analysis + /simulation-study for design-stage power. This is what 'depends_on' references throughout the flagship list. Build this rule first, then hang the skills off it. NOT a consolidation of existing surfaces — it is the missing connective tissue that keeps four new flagships mutually consistent and consistent with the DiD flagship. +- **leave (do NOT consolidate) — clarify positioning only** (.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/seven-pass-review/SKILL.md): PLAUSIBLE overlap but recommendation is LEAVE with HIGH risk-if-changed. review-paper is the default; seven-pass is the heavier ~7x-token maximum-lens option for submission-ready/R&R papers. Both are load-bearing (review-paper --peer is used in cross-artifact pipelines; seven-pass is called by /slide-excellence for teaching papers). Do NOT merge. The only action is a one-line positioning clarification ('default to /review-paper; reach for /seven-pass-review only when maximum lens coverage justifies the token cost') so users stop confusing the two. +- **fix dead reference** (.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md:87): PLAUSIBLE low-stakes clarity fix. Line 87's prose 'rules/guide' reads as a literal path that does not exist; it means 'the rules and the guide.' Reword to the concrete targets (e.g. '.claude/rules/*.md and guide/workflow-guide.qmd') so the audit instruction is unambiguous. Not load-bearing, no user-facing API depends on it; aligns with the documented drift-hazard pattern (pet-peeve #18). +- **defer naming disambiguation (do NOT rename now)** (.claude/agents/claim-verifier.md, .claude/agents/verifier.md, .claude/agents/domain-referee.md, .claude/agents/domain-reviewer.md): Pure UX/clarity issue, ZERO functional overlap (CoVe-prose vs build-compilation; manuscript-peer-review vs slide-content-template). The similar names confuse new users but the agents own distinct surfaces and the names are not load-bearing conflicts. Defer a future rename (e.g. cove-verifier / build-verifier / manuscript-referee / slide-content-reviewer) to a later cleanup release; do not touch as part of the methods build-out. + +## Leave as-is (already strong) + +- /did-event-study + did-conventions.md — the proven flagship; the reference architecture, already gold-standard. Do not over-build around it; copy its pattern instead. +- /simulation-study + simulation-conventions.md + sim-reviewer — Monte Carlo capability already shipped (v1.10.0); reuse it as the engine for simulation-based power and method validation rather than re-implementing. +- /power-analysis — already routes non-closed-form designs (DiD, IV, panel) to the simulation harness; extend it from the new method skills, don't replace it. +- inference-robustness.md — already consolidates multiple-testing (Romano-Wolf / Anderson q-values), spec-multiverse, leave-one-out, and few-cluster inference. This is the shared inference substrate; new flagships should reference it, not duplicate it. +- audit-reproducibility + verify-claims — orthogonal verification surfaces (numeric-claim-vs-code vs CoVe-on-prose), both load-bearing; correctly separate. +- Review/verification/memory/context families (review-paper vs seven-pass, claim-verifier vs verifier, learn vs promote-memory, checkpoint vs compress-session vs context-status, visual-audit vs slide-excellence, domain-referee vs domain-reviewer) — all verified as intentional complementary layers, recommendation LEAVE. The coherence audit found no genuine consolidation targets; the work is additive (build missing methods), not subtractive. +- orchestrator-protocol.md fan-out -> reduce -> judge + hallucination-gate -> loop-until-dry runtime — mature and reusable; every new method flagship's review loop should plug into it unchanged. + +## Recommended sequencing + +1. FIRST build the connective tissue: create .claude/rules/quasi-experimental-conventions.md (the did-conventions.md sibling) that states per-method HARD guardrails and points to the existing inference-robustness.md and /simulation-study + /power-analysis harness. Every method flagship depends on this, so it must exist before the skills to avoid four divergent inference re-derivations. +2. Build /iv-2sls (P0) on the /did-event-study template, with weak-instrument inference and LATE/MTE folded in as modules. IV is the highest-frequency uncovered workhorse and its first-stage/compliers machinery is reused by fuzzy RD, so it precedes RDD. +3. Build /rdd-analysis (P0) — sharp + fuzzy; fuzzy reuses the IV first-stage from step 2. Kink and bunching attach later as optional modules here, not as separate skills. +4. Build /matching-weighting (P1) — selection-on-observables; conceptually reinforces the DiD doubly-robust foundation already in the repo and has zero current surface. +5. Build /panel-models (P1) — CRE/Mundlak + generic panel-FE guardrails, cross-referencing /did-event-study's 'no TWFE headline under staggered timing' boundary so the two never contradict; add dynamic-panel GMM as a P2 module afterward. +6. P2 / opportunistic: /synth-control only as a vetted-package verification wrapper (honoring the v2.0-backlog non-goal), plus the small kink/bunching/local-projections modules. Build only after the reduced-form trio (IV, RDD) and panel/matching are solid. +7. Cheap parallel cleanup (any time, non-blocking): fix the deep-audit:87 'rules/guide' dead-ref wording; add the one-line review-paper-vs-seven-pass positioning note. Defer the agent renames to a later cleanup release — do not bundle them with the methods build-out. + +## Completeness critic (confidence: high) — blind spots no finder checked + +- **RCT / field-experiment ANALYSIS workflow (balance, attrition, ITT/LATE, multiple arms, spillovers) — distinct from the design-stage /preregister + /power-analysis** → Build a /rct-analysis (a.k.a. /experiment-analysis) flagship on the /did-event-study template: pre-specified-analysis adherence check against the PAP, balance + differential-attrition tables (iebaltab/cobalt), ITT as headline + LATE/TOT via the IV first-stage, multiple-arm and multiple-outcome correction (reuse inference-robustness.md Romano-Wolf / Anderson q-values), clustered + randomization inference, and a heterogeneity/pre-registered-subgroup module. It closes the loop with the already-strong /preregister + /power-analysis design stage and inherits the shared quasi-experimental inference rule. +- **Structural estimation + welfare / counterfactual policy simulation (the ~20% structural slice's PRODUCTION surface)** → At minimum add a structural-conventions rule + a sufficient-statistics / welfare-counterfactual reporting checklist (identification of structural parameters, calibration-vs-estimation transparency, moment fit on non-targeted moments, counterfactual within covariate support, standard errors that propagate estimation uncertainty into welfare numbers, sensitivity to functional-form/distributional assumptions). A /structural-counterfactual or /welfare-simulation skill is the larger move; even the lightweight reporting rule would stop structural papers from inheriting only a reduced-form substrate. Note this is lower-frequency-per-paper but high-stakes (welfare claims drive policy). +- **Measurement / index construction / latent-variable methods (PCA, factor analysis, IRT, scale reliability, inter-rater agreement)** → Add a /measurement (index-construction) skill or at least a measurement-conventions rule: standardization and weighting choices, PCA/factor extraction and rotation, IRT for binary/ordinal items, reliability (Cronbach's alpha / omega), inter-rater reliability (kappa/ICC) for hand-coded data, and how measurement error propagates into downstream regressions (attenuation, EIV corrections). Cross-reference it from /data-analysis (which currently goes straight from load to regression with no construct-validity step). +- **Text-as-data / NLP-for-economics (scraping, dictionary methods, topic models, embeddings, LLM-as-annotator validation)** → Add a /text-as-data skill (or a textmeasurement-conventions rule): reproducible scraping + provenance/ToS capture, preprocessing decisions as researcher-degrees-of-freedom (tokenization, stemming, vocabulary cuts), dictionary vs supervised vs topic-model vs embedding measurement, and — critically for 2026 — a validation protocol for LLM-as-annotator pipelines (human-coded gold set, inter-rater agreement, measurement-error propagation into downstream regressions). This also has an integrity angle the repo cares about (reproducibility of a moving web corpus). +- **Missing-data methodology + survey/sampling weights (multiple imputation, MAR/MCAR/MNAR, raking/post-stratification, design weights)** → Add a /missing-and-weights skill or a survey-data-conventions rule covering: missingness diagnostics + mechanism reasoning (MCAR/MAR/MNAR), multiple imputation (mice/Amelia) vs complete-case vs IPW-for-missingness with the bias trade-offs, and complex-survey handling (design weights, strata/PSU, raking/post-stratification with survey/srvyr in R, svy: in Stata). Explicitly distinguish survey/design weights from the causal IPW/entropy-balancing weights in the planned /matching-weighting flagship so the two are not conflated. +- **AI-use / authorship disclosure and research-integrity norms (CRediT, COI, journal AI-disclosure statements) — NOT statistical disclosure** → Add a lightweight /submission-disclosures skill (or fold into /replication-package's README phase): generate an AI-use disclosure statement matching the target journal's policy, a CRediT contributor-roles block, a COI statement, and a data-availability statement. Pair with the journal-profiles reference so the statement matches venue policy. Low cost, high relevance to this specific toolkit's own positioning. +- **Causal mediation analysis (decomposing direct vs indirect effects; mechanism estimation)** → Add a causal-mediation module — most naturally a module inside the shared quasi-experimental inference rule or a /mechanism-analysis skill: natural direct/indirect effect estimation (mediation/CMAverse), the sequential-ignorability assumption and its implausibility, sensitivity analysis for mediator-outcome confounding, and an explicit 'do not just add the mediator as a control' bad-controls warning. Cross-reference from /review-paper's identification dimension. +- **Forecasting / nowcasting / out-of-sample predictive evaluation** → Defer, but record the routing: if a time-series-causal surface (local projections, per the action-map's deferred Jorda module) is ever built, fold forecasting/nowcasting evaluation (proper-scoring/loss, rolling-origin CV, Diebold-Mariano/Giacomini-White, nowcast revision triangles) in alongside it rather than spinning up a standalone flagship ahead of the reduced-form trio. +- **Reproducible-compute build orchestration (Make / targets / Snakemake pipeline DAGs) as a first-class artifact** → Add a build-orchestration module to /capture-environment or /replication-package: when to graduate from a linear 00_run_all to a targets (R) / Make / Snakemake DAG, how to express Table->script dependencies as build targets (mirroring the cross-artifact dependency graph the repo already documents), and how the DAG makes 'the package rebuilds from scratch deterministically' verifiable rather than asserted. Low effort, high payoff for the post-analysis lifecycle the repo already invests in. + +### Critic disagreements with the synthesis + +- PRIORITY MIS-WEIGHT — RCT analysis is under-counted. The action-map treats RCTs as fully served by /preregister + /power-analysis (design) and folds LATE/compliers into /iv-2sls. But the repo's own econ discipline-card makes field-experiments/RCTs the ONE paper type with MANDATORY preregistration (AEA RCT Registry), i.e. a self-declared first-class object. A toolkit that can design and power an RCT but cannot run the balance/attrition/ITT/LATE/multiple-arm analysis has a hole at least as large as the RD hole the map ranks P0. /rct-analysis deserves P0-P1, not silent absorption into /iv-2sls. +- SEQUENCING — /matching-weighting (selection-on-observables) is ranked P1 below the IV/RDD P0 flagships, but the action-map itself notes it is the conceptual sibling that strengthens the EXISTING DiD doubly-robust flagship (DRDID), and it is the substrate every observational-econ and adjacent-discipline paper needs. Given the repo's stated multi-discipline-template ambition (poli-sci shipped; psych/socio/public-health on the backlog), selection-on-observables generalizes far better across disciplines than IV/RDD do. I would argue it is effectively P0.5 — build it right after the shared inference rule and before RDD, because it has the highest reuse-per-build of the four new flagships. +- FRAMING GAP, not a ranking error — the action-map is explicitly and correctly scoped to the METHODS (estimator) axis and the COHERENCE axis, and it says so. My disagreement is that the headline ('gold standard for DiD, not yet for empirical econ in general') is stated as a methods-axis verdict but reads as a general verdict. The cross-cutting blind spots above (measurement, text-as-data, missing-data/weights, structural-welfare PRODUCTION, integrity/AI-disclosure) mean the gap to 'gold standard for empirical econ in general' is WIDER than the four-reduced-form-flagships story implies — even after IV/RDD/matching/panel all ship, the data-production and integrity surfaces would still be empty. The map should say so explicitly so a reader does not conclude 'four flagships ~= done.' +- SYNTHETIC CONTROL — agree with P2 and with honoring the documented 'plausible-but-wrong estimator launders authority' non-build decision. No disagreement on the verdict; I only note the map's own logic (wrap a vetted package, never re-implement the estimator) is exactly the right template for the structural-welfare and text-as-data blind spots too, where the from-scratch risk is even higher — the map could state that principle once as a reusable build-policy rather than per-skill. + +## Full coverage matrix + + +**Quasi-experimental causal (non-DiD)** + +| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Instrumental variables (IV) / 2SLS / Two-stage least squares | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Weak-instrument inference / many-instrument asymptotics | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| LATE (local average treatment effect) / Marginal treatment effect (MTE) | absent | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Regression discontinuity design (RDD) — sharp and fuzzy | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Regression kink design / Kink estimator | absent | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| Bunching / Notch design (mass point & density tests) | absent | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| Synthetic control method / Synthetic DiD | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| Matching / Propensity score methods / IPW (inverse probability weighting) | thin | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Local projections / Dynamic treatment effects / Impulse-response analysis | absent | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | + +**Panel / DiD-adjacent / causal-ML** + +| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Panel fixed effects & TWFE (Two-Way FE) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Mundlak / Correlated Random Effects (CRE) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Dynamic panel / GMM (Arellano-Bond, system GMM) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Event-study (canonical focus) | flagship | leave | — | ✓ | +| Double / Debiased ML (DML), Chernozhukov-type approaches | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Causal forests / GRF (Athey-Wager) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Heterogeneous treatment effects / CATE (conditional average treatment effects) | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| Continuous-treatment / dose-response | adequate | extend-generic | — | ✓ | +| Local projections / lag-response dynamics | absent | leave | CONFIRMED | | +| Regression discontinuity (RDD) / sharp & fuzzy designs | thin | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Instrumental variables (IV / TSLS) | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Panel inference robustness (clustering, wild bootstrap, few-treated) | adequate | leave | — | | +| Synthetic control & related methods | thin | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Matching / propensity-score methods | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | +| Covariate balance & covariate control (selection on observables) | adequate | extend-generic | — | | +| Specification robustness / specification curves / multiverse | adequate | extend-generic | — | | +| Simulation study (finite-sample properties, power, design validation) | flagship | leave | — | | + +**Structural / time-series / distributional** + +| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| GMM / MLE / SMM estimation | absent | build-flagship | REFUTED | | +| Discrete choice & demand (logit, BLP) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Dynamic structural models & estimation | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | +| Time-series econometrics (ARIMA, VAR, LP) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Macro-econometrics (DSGE, GE, calibration) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Quantile & distributional regression | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | +| Spatial econometrics & network econometrics | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| Bootstrap & resampling inference (wild, cluster, block) | adequate | leave | — | | +| Heterogeneous treatment effects & effect modification | adequate | leave | — | | +| Regression discontinuity & local methods | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Synthetic control & matching methods | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | + +**Pre-analysis research lifecycle** + +| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Research Ideation | flagship | leave | — | | +| Literature Review | flagship | leave | — | | +| Data Acquisition (APIs, web-scraping, admin data) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Data Provenance & Licensing | adequate | leave | — | | +| Data Cleaning & Wrangling | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Data Validation & Quality Assurance | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | +| Power & MDE Calculation | flagship | leave | — | | +| Pre-Registration & Pre-Analysis Plans | flagship | leave | — | | +| Sampling & Sample Weights | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| Data Management Planning | flagship | leave | — | | + +**Post-analysis research lifecycle** + +| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Regression tables & statistical exhibits (esttab/modelsummary conventions) | adequate | extend-generic | — | | +| Figure production (ggplot2, visualization best-practices, readability standards) | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | +| Scientific writing quality (prose, tone, hedge accuracy, AI-voice detection) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Comprehensive manuscript review (single-pass, adversarial, simulated peer-review pipeline) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Seven-pass review (7 parallel lenses, synthesized) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Responding to referees (mapping referee concerns to revisions, classification, drafting responses) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Replication packages (DCAS-compliant deposit, README, environment capture, Table→Script map) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Disclosure/statistical-disclosure-limitation screening (pre-release data checking for restricted data) | flagship | leave | — | | +| IRB/human-subjects oversight (protocol design, consent, data minimization) | adequate | extend-generic | — | | +| Journal submission & manuscript formatting (journal-specific conventions, submission checklists) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Environment capture & computational reproducibility (lockfiles, seeds, session info) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Verification of numeric claims (audit-reproducibility, tolerance contracts, EXPLAINED mechanism) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Bibliography validation & citation consistency (structural + semantic audit) | adequate | leave | — | | + +**Inference, robustness & computation** + +| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| Cluster-Robust & HAC Standard Errors | adequate | extend-generic | — | | +| Multiple Testing Correction (Romano-Wolf, Sharpened-q, Anderson FDR) | flagship | leave | — | | +| Randomization & Permutation Inference | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Bootstrap & Wild-Cluster Bootstrap | adequate | extend-generic | — | | +| Specification Curve & Sensitivity Analysis | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | +| Partial Identification & Bounds | absent | na | REFUTED | | +| Reproducibility: Seeds, Environment Capture, Containers | flagship | leave | — | | +| HPC, Parallel Workflows, Large-Data Scaling | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | +| DiD-Specific Diagnostics & Sensitivity (Pedro Sant'Anna Vault) | flagship | leave | — | ✓ | +| Data Validation & Panel Balance Checking | adequate | extend-generic | — | | +| Cross-Artifact Verification (Code ↔ Manuscript Numeric Claims) | flagship | leave | — | | + +## Coherence findings + + +**Redundancy / overlapping surfaces** + +- [overlap→leave —] Review/audit family: deep-audit, seven-pass-review, review-paper, and review-r span mechanical checks, parallel adversarial lenses, and comprehensive pipelines with overlapping scope. +- [overlap→leave —] Verification family: verify-claims and audit-reproducibility both implement verification gates but target different factual-type domains (citations/literature vs numeric-claim reproducibility). +- [overlap→leave —] Claim-verifier vs verifier agents: claim-verifier (forked, fresh-context CoVe) and verifier (TikZ/compilation checks) are DISTINCT agents with no functional overlap despite similar names. +- [overlap→leave —] Context/session family: checkpoint, compress-session, and context-status are COMPLEMENTARY, not overlapping. checkpoint is explicit stop-point snapshot; compress-session is forced distillation before auto-compact; context-status is a read-only health check. +- [overlap→leave —] Memory family: learn and promote-memory are a two-stage pipeline (capture → promotion), not duplicative. learn extracts skills from sessions; promote-memory runs a five-critic council to decide what enters MEMORY.md (generic) vs stays in personal-memory.md (local). +- [overlap→leave —] Referee/review agents: domain-referee (manuscript disposition-primed substantive reviewer) and domain-reviewer (slide template reviewer for pedagogical correctness) are DISTINCT despite similar names. +- [depth-gap→leave —] Visual-audit skill (Quarto/Beamer layout) vs slide-excellence orchestrator: visual-audit is a single lens; slide-excellence fans out visual-audit + pedagogy-review + proofread in parallel. +- [naming→leave —] Three agents with similar names in different contexts could confuse new users: claim-verifier (CoVe prose), domain-referee (manuscript peer-review), domain-reviewer (lecture content template). + +**Dead / stale cross-references** + +- [dead-ref→fix PLAUSIBLE] Dead reference to 'rules/guide' which does not exist +- [other→leave —] Retired skills `/prompt` and `/prompt-only` are correctly documented as historical references, not dead cross-references + +**Surface-count drift** + +- [count-drift→fix CONFIRMED] CHANGELOG v2.0.0 asserts '30 rules' but README, guide, and on-disk inventory show 32 rules +- [count-drift→leave REFUTED] Briefing document claims 51 skills but repository contains 50; README correctly asserts 50 +- [count-drift→leave CONFIRMED] Briefing claims 33 rules but repository contains 32; README correctly asserts 32 + +**Rule contradictions & depth asymmetry** + +- [contradiction→consolidate REFUTED] BEAMER-QUARTO-SYNC vs. SINGLE-SOURCE-OF-TRUTH conflict on handling manual Quarto edits +- [depth-gap→fix —] DID-CONVENTIONS has 'insanely high' 73-line standard with numeric tolerances (1e-6), HonestDiD + didFF mandatory, exact bootstrap iterations (25000 for publication); INFERENCE-ROBUSTNESS gives generic 3-paragraph guidance on specification robustness with no methodology names, no numeric standards, no enforcement mechanism. +- [contradiction→fix —] QUALITY-GATES § thresholds are 'advisory' (80/90/95 in harness, real enforcement only post-hook install); DID-CONVENTIONS requires exact numeric precision (1e-6 point estimates, 1e-6 SEs) with no opt-out. +- [dead-ref→fix REFUTED] CONTENT-INVARIANTS § INV-6 references no-pause-beamer.md but NO-PAUSE-BEAMER gives zero rationale, contradicting the pedagogical design of other invariants. +- [depth-gap→consolidate REFUTED] REPLICATION-PROTOCOL has heavyweight passport.yaml system (PASS/FAIL/EXPLAINED/STALE/UNVERIFIED statuses, git integration with /commit enforcement). INFERENCE-ROBUSTNESS on specification robustness has only prose guidance with no tracking mechanism. +- [contradiction→consolidate —] VERIFICATION-PROTOCOL (task completion, mechanical: 'did the PDF render?') vs. POST-FLIGHT-VERIFICATION (hallucination, semantic: 'did the literature claim hold?') — both called 'verification' but measuring opposite things. +- [overlap→consolidate —] DID-CONVENTIONS § Verification (R as benchmark, 1e-6 tolerance) duplicates replication-protocol.md § Phase 3 (tolerance thresholds, PASS/FAIL status tracking) with different language and enforcement. +- [overlap→leave —] TIKZ-MEASUREMENT.md (six-pass protocol with Pass 0-6 systematic checks) and TIKZ-PREVENTION.md (rules P1-P6 about not writing colliding TikZ in the first place) and TIKZ-VISUAL-QUALITY.md (label positioning, visual semantics) — all three rules govern TikZ but at different stages (design/authoring vs. review vs. measurement). +- [naming→fix —] SESSION-LOGGING.md defines 'Quality Reports' (line 57-59) as merged-time artifacts, but ORCHESTRATOR-PROTOCOL.md line 6 references 'Step 6: SCORE — quality_score.py / hard-gate roll-up', suggesting quality reports are generated on every run of the review loop. +- [depth-gap→leave —] MODEL-ROUTING.md gives detailed 70/20/10 allocation and effort-axis guidance for cost optimization. NO comparable cost/effort guidance exists for other dimensions (e.g., should a literature review use Sonnet or Haiku? should a slide audit be low/medium/high effort?). + +**Naming / discoverability / frontmatter** + +- [overlap→fix —] Two skills (context-status, deep-audit) are missing the optional 'argument-hint' frontmatter field, while most peers include it. Neither skill takes arguments, but inconsistency signals they may have been created before the field became standard. +- [naming→leave —] Skill naming conventions are inconsistent across three patterns: imperative verbs (audit-reproducibility, compile-latex), nouns (syllabus, checkpoint), and adj-noun compounds (slide-excellence, seven-pass-review). No single pattern dominates. This creates mild cognitive friction when users scan the full skill list, as some skills look like commands and others like objects. +- [dead-ref→fix —] The skill r-package-check claims in its description to 'produce a check report + CRAN-submission checklist' (lines 1-2 of SKILL.md), yet its allowed-tools field does not include 'Write' or 'Edit'. This creates a discrepancy: the frontmatter promises written output, but the declared tools don't include writing capabilities. +- [count-drift→fix —] The prompt inventory states '51 skills' but the actual directory count is 50. The discrepancy arises because 'learn' is a template/example skill (at .claude/skills/learn/SKILL.md) that contains placeholder names ('descriptive-kebab-case-name', 'fixest-missing-covariate-handling') in its body, not a deployed skill. The learn/SKILL.md file itself uses 'name: learn' in the frontmatter, but its body serves as a tutorial showing users how to create skills, not a live skill. +- [other→leave —] Eight v2.0 skills appear after the v1.10.0 skills in the README comprehensive table, grouped at the end (lines 258-271). This creates a discovery friction: users scanning the README table quickly may assume newer skills stop after the '(v1.10.0)' section and miss power-analysis, replication-package, did-event-study, capture-environment, disclosure-check, grant-proposal, data-management-plan, coauthor-brief, triage-inbox, syllabus, teach-from-paper, respond-to-eval, scaffold-exercises, and new-skill. A user skimming to 'most recent' would have to scan down further. + +--- + +## Decisions (2026-06-09) + +- **Methods build-out DEFERRED.** Coverage gaps confirmed (the reduced-form trio: DiD shipped; IV, RD, matching/PS, panel-CRE missing) but the build program is not started this session. The full prioritized map above is the standing roadmap. +- **When built, priority order is (critic-adopted):** Step-0 `quasi-experimental-conventions.md` rule → `/iv-2sls` (P0) → **`/matching-weighting` (moved ahead of RDD** — selection-on-observables generalizes across disciplines and reinforces the existing DiD-DR foundation) → `/rdd-analysis` (P0, fuzzy reuses IV first-stage) → `/panel-models` (P1) → **`/rct-analysis` is a first-class P0** (field experiments are the only mandatory-prereg paper type; not absorbed into IV's LATE module). `/synth-control` stays P2, wrapper-only (honors the documented "plausible-but-wrong estimator launders authority" non-goal). +- **Bar distinction:** only DiD carries Pedro's name (1e-6-against-his-own-packages). The new method flagships are COMMUNITY-STANDARD — built by orchestrating the canonical vetted packages (rdrobust, ivreg/ivDiag, MatchIt/WeightIt, fixest), never reimplementing, validated against those packages — NOT to the DiD 1e-6 bar. +- **Wider program (completeness critic, high confidence):** even after the method flagships, data-production + integrity surfaces stay empty — measurement/index construction, text-as-data (incl. LLM-as-annotator validation), missing-data + survey weights, structural-welfare production checklist, AI-use/authorship disclosure, reproducible-compute DAGs. These are later phases, not "four skills ≈ done." +- **This session:** coherence cleanup only — CHANGELOG rule-count drift (30→32, +2→+4 rules) and deep-audit:87 "rules/guide" wording. r-package-check `Write` and argument-hint findings inspected and intentionally NOT changed (gate-green non-issues). diff --git a/templates/skill-template.md b/templates/skill-template.md index 807697ae2..8718833d3 100644 --- a/templates/skill-template.md +++ b/templates/skill-template.md @@ -437,4 +437,4 @@ When adapting this template to your domain: - **Purpose:** Starter for domain-specific skills - **Usage:** Copy to `.claude/skills/[name]/SKILL.md`, customize for your field -For existing skills examples, see `.claude/skills/` directory (50 skills for LaTeX, R, Quarto, and research workflows). +For existing skills examples, see `.claude/skills/` directory (51 skills for LaTeX, R, Quarto, and research workflows). From 4a34b20c754c38e54d48083cebf42a3163d443c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 16:50:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 17/19] chore(v2.0): sync in-source guide render to 51-skill count MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit guide/workflow-guide.html is the source-side twin of the (gated) docs/workflow-guide.html; the surface-sync gate only checks the docs/ copy, so this in-source render had drifted unstaged. Now matches docs/ (51 skills) — the two are identical but for one deployment- specific line. Picked up by the pre-commit partial-staging stash guard last commit. --- guide/workflow-guide.html | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.html b/guide/workflow-guide.html index df2ae6bf1..640a839ac 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.html +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.html @@ -2757,7 +2757,7 @@

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 50 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    You talk, Claude orchestrates. The 18 agents, 51 skills, and 32 rules exist so you don’t have to think about them. Describe your goal, approve the plan, and let the system work.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 50 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    This guide describes the full system — 18 agents, 51 skills, 32 rules. That is the ceiling, not the floor. Start with just CLAUDE.md and 2–3 skills (/compile-latex, /proofread, /commit). Add rules and agents as you discover what you need. The template is designed for progressive adoption: fork it, fill in the placeholders, and start working. Everything else is there when you’re ready.

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 50: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 51: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

    From 6ce2621e9badbae21f7ebe218292c6a2a328c018 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 17:26:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 18/19] =?UTF-8?q?feat(v2.0):=20best-on-earth=20pass=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20deepen=20/diagnose,=20close=20surface-sync=20blind?= =?UTF-8?q?=20spots,=20fix=20count=20drift?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Adversarial gold-standard audit (38 agents, 7 dimensions, 24% noise, convention+coherence came back 100% clean). Verdict was "one focused fixing pass away" — this is that pass. COUNT DRIFT (must-fix) — 4 stragglers the gate's regexes missed, all → 51: - guide/workflow-guide.qmd:2391 ("The guide includes 50 skills") — a SOURCE line. - guide + docs/workflow-guide.html (rendered twins) + the "this template's 50" callout (docs HTML used a typographic apostrophe ’ that the straight-quote regex never matched). - .github/CONTRIBUTING.md prose example. SURFACE-SYNC GATE HARDENED so this drift class can't recur (was the root cause): - this template['’]s — now matches the curly apostrophe Quarto emits in rendered HTML. - "guide includes N skills" — new regex for the prose form that matched none of the gate's patterns. Gate now validates 29 count assertions (was 26); regexes proven to bite. /diagnose DEEPENED to gold-standard (skill-depth + functional + safety findings): - Phase 3 gains the 3 high-frequency silent-bug classes a top econometrician expects — numerical stability/convergence (singular Hessian, VIF, optimizer flag), weighting/ aggregation, bad-controls/colliders. Phase 3b adds a hypothesis-reduce + confidence gate. - Phase 4 names concrete diagnostic primitives (str/summary, before/after counts, table(), cor()/VIF, weight diagnostics). Phase 5 adds a per-bug-class prevention-guard table AND a pre-edit confidence gate (the anti-laundering rule — no fix on an unproven hypothesis). - Adds a WORKED EXAMPLE (no sibling ships without code fences — this was the depth gap), a cross-language R/Stata/Python note (multi-discipline accessibility), a sharpened /audit-reproducibility boundary, tolerance-by-source heuristic, and a fuller exit table. RECIPROCAL DISCOVERABILITY (altitude) — /diagnose was link-out-only; now findable from the failures it resolves: audit-reproducibility (FAIL → hand off) and replication-protocol.md ("If Mismatch" → localize which step) point back to it. FORK-LEAK / PRIVACY (critic, missed by synthesis): quality_reports/audits/ + the new diagnoses/ are now gitignored with .gitkeep (consistent with plans/specs/merges) — diagnoses will hold real data values, and the repo-specific coverage audit is noise for a forker. The committed audit report is untracked (kept local + in history); reconciled its 50-skills snapshot + the false "/learn is a template skill" finding. /diagnose now mkdir -p's its dir. Gates: surface-sync (29 + 2 table rows), check-skill-integrity, model-versions — all green. --- .claude/rules/replication-protocol.md | 2 +- .claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md | 1 + .claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md | 97 ++++++- .github/CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 +- .gitignore | 12 +- docs/workflow-guide.html | 4 +- guide/workflow-guide.html | 2 +- guide/workflow-guide.qmd | 2 +- quality_reports/audits/.gitkeep | 0 ...2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md | 273 ------------------ quality_reports/diagnoses/.gitkeep | 0 scripts/check-surface-sync.py | 12 +- 12 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 299 deletions(-) create mode 100644 quality_reports/audits/.gitkeep delete mode 100644 quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md create mode 100644 quality_reports/diagnoses/.gitkeep diff --git a/.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md b/.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md index bd37a1a74..ca8c7b105 100644 --- a/.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md +++ b/.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Before writing any R code: ### If Mismatch -**Do NOT proceed to extensions.** Isolate which step introduces the difference, check common causes (sample size, SE computation, default options, variable definitions), and document the investigation even if unresolved. +**Do NOT proceed to extensions.** Isolate which step introduces the difference, check common causes (sample size, SE computation, default options, variable definitions), and document the investigation even if unresolved. To localize *which* step drifted, hand off to [`/diagnose`](../skills/diagnose/SKILL.md) (reproduce → minimise → bisect the pipeline) — it is the single-claim root-cause counterpart to `/audit-reproducibility`'s whole-paper check. **The mismatch does not presume the code is correct.** The on-disk output is a *challenger*, not an oracle — a refactor may have broken a previously-correct table, so the *manuscript* number may be the right one and the code the stale/buggy side. Frame it as "one of {paper, code} must change — isolate which," never "revert the code to match the paper." diff --git a/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md index 25a74b23d..70d445fb1 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ See [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.m - [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — the tolerance contract + passport schema. - [`templates/passport-template.yaml`](../../../templates/passport-template.yaml) — starter file to copy for a new paper. - [`.claude/skills/review-r/SKILL.md`](../review-r/SKILL.md) — catches code-style issues; this skill catches NUMERICAL reproducibility. +- [`.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md`](../diagnose/SKILL.md) — when a claim resolves to **FAIL** and you need to localize *which* pipeline step produced the out-of-tolerance value, hand off to `/diagnose` (single-claim root-cause: reproduce → minimise → bisect). - [`.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md`](../review-paper/SKILL.md) — content review; pair with this skill for a full pre-submission audit. - [`.claude/skills/replication-package/SKILL.md`](../replication-package/SKILL.md) — gates on this skill before assembling the AEA DCAS deposit. - [`.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) · [`.claude/skills/disclosure-check/SKILL.md`](../disclosure-check/SKILL.md) — environment capture + restricted-data screening downstream. diff --git a/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md index f4052c223..762006045 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- name: diagnose -description: Root-cause a failing or wrong empirical result with a disciplined reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix loop, instead of guessing-and-poking. Use when the user says "why is my regression wrong", "this number changed", "my script errors out", "the result won't reproduce", "debug this", "this estimate looks wrong", or "it worked yesterday". Tuned for research code (R/Stata/Python): data-type coercion, NA/merge blow-ups, factor levels, clustering/SE choices, seeds, package-version drift. +description: Root-cause a failing or wrong empirical result with a disciplined reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix loop, instead of guessing-and-poking. Use when the user says "why is my regression wrong", "this number changed", "my script errors out", "the result won't reproduce", "debug this", "this estimate looks wrong", or "it worked yesterday". Tuned for research code (R/Stata/Python): type coercion, NA/merge blow-ups, factor levels, clustering/SE choices, weighting, collinearity/convergence, seeds, package-version drift. Use `--no-fix` to localize the root cause without editing shared or load-bearing files. argument-hint: "[file, script, or short description of the symptom] [--no-fix]" allowed-tools: ["Read", "Write", "Edit", "Grep", "Glob", "Bash", "Task"] effort: high @@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ The discipline: **never edit before you can reproduce, and never fix before you - A result "won't reproduce" — different number on re-run, on another machine, or after a package update. - A replication claim fails `/audit-reproducibility` and you need to localize *which* step drifted. -**Use a sibling instead when:** you want a code-quality pass with no specific symptom ([`/review-r`](../review-r/SKILL.md)); you want to re-verify *all* numeric claims against code ([`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md)); or the environment itself is the suspect and you need to snapshot it ([`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md)). +**Diagnose is symptom-driven and single-target: ONE wrong number / ONE failing run.** Use a sibling instead when the job is different: + +- [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — verify *all* numeric claims in a manuscript against current code (claim-driven, whole-paper). If you have one FAILing claim and want to localize which pipeline step produced it, `/audit-reproducibility` hands off *to* `/diagnose`; if you want to re-check every table number, start there. +- [`/review-r`](../review-r/SKILL.md) — code-quality review with **no specific symptom**. +- [`/capture-environment`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) — snapshot the environment when version/seed drift is the suspect. ## Phases @@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ State the bug as a falsifiable gap before touching anything: - **Expected:** the value/behaviour you believe is correct, and *why* (a prior run, a paper table, a hand calculation, a theoretical sign). - **Actual:** the value/error observed now, copied verbatim (full message, not a paraphrase). -- **Tolerance:** for a numeric bug, the threshold that separates "same" from "different" (see [`replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — don't chase 1e-12 noise; don't wave away a 5% gap). +- **Tolerance:** the threshold that separates "same" from "different", keyed to the source of *expected* — prior run on the same machine → machine-epsilon + display rounding; a published table → rounding + small slack (~1e-3); a hand calculation → ~0.01; a theoretical prediction → an economic-significance band, not a decimal. Don't chase 1e-12 floating-point noise; don't wave away a 5% gap. (See [`replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md).) If expected/actual can't be stated, the task is *understanding*, not diagnosis — stop and clarify first. @@ -52,41 +56,91 @@ The MWE is the deliverable even if the fix is later trivial: it's what makes the ### Phase 3 — Hypothesise (enumerate, then rank) -List candidate causes *before* testing any — a written list beats poking because it prevents fixating on the first idea. For research code, walk the usual suspects: +List candidate causes *before* testing any — a written list beats poking because it prevents fixating on the first idea. For research code, walk the usual suspects (all of these run cleanly with **no error message** — they are silent-wrong-number bugs): - **Types & coercion** — a numeric read as character/factor; integer overflow; date parsed wrong; `TRUE/FALSE` ↔ `1/0`. - **Missingness** — `NA` dropped silently, `na.rm` flipping a mean, listwise deletion changing the sample mid-pipeline. - **Joins & shape** — a many-to-many merge inflating rows; duplicate keys; an unbalanced panel where balance was assumed. -- **Specification** — wrong clustering level, fixed-effects absorbed twice, a control that is a bad control, a lag/lead off by one. +- **Specification** — wrong clustering level, fixed effects absorbed twice, a lag/lead off by one. +- **Bad controls & colliders** — a control that is post-treatment, a mediator on the causal path, or a descendant of treatment (adding it *induces* bias, invisibly). The tell: a coefficient that moves the "wrong way" or shrinks implausibly when a control enters. +- **Numerical stability & convergence** — an optimizer that didn't converge (check the convergence code, not just the estimates), a singular/near-singular Hessian, collinearity (high VIF, a dropped column), tolerance set too loose, under/overflow with very small/large weights or coefficients. +- **Weighting & aggregation** — weights silently dropped/truncated, weights renormalised wrong, frequency vs. probability vs. analytic weights confused, a weight applied *after* rather than *before* a transform. - **Sample** — a filter that runs before vs. after a transform; an outlier rule applied inconsistently. - **Environment** — a package/Stata version bump that changed a default; a seed that moved; locale/encoding. For a genuinely ambiguous bug, fan out the top competing hypotheses to parallel `Task` subagents (one per hypothesis, `context: fork`), each instructed to *try to confirm its own cause on the MWE* and report back — the loop-first analogue of asking three colleagues at once (see [`orchestrator-protocol.md`](../../rules/orchestrator-protocol.md)). +### Phase 3b — Reduce the hypotheses (so you don't launder a guess) + +Each hypothesis (whether tested by hand or by a fan-out `Task`) returns `{hypothesis, evidence for, evidence against, confidence, one-line conclusion}`. Then: + +- **One clear winner** (high confidence, others refuted) → proceed to Phase 4 to confirm the mechanism. +- **A near-tie** (top two within ~20 percentage points) → do *not* pick one; go to Phase 4 instrumentation to discriminate. +- **None above ~50%** → report ambiguity and ask the user; do not edit on a coin-flip. + ### Phase 4 — Instrument & localize (bisect, don't stare) Test the ranked hypotheses cheaply: - **Bisect the pipeline** — check the intermediate value at the midpoint of the data flow; the bug is upstream or downstream of it. Repeat. Binary search finds the offending line in `log2(n)` steps, not `n`. -- **Bisect history** — if it "worked yesterday", `git bisect` (or compare against the last-good commit/output) to pin the change that introduced it. -- **Instrument** — print/inspect types, row counts, `NA` counts, and the value at each stage; the stage where expected and actual diverge *is* the location. +- **Bisect history** — if it "worked yesterday", compare against the last-good commit/output to pin the change that introduced it. (`git bisect` is fine here — it never discards work; the destructive git commands are blocked by `git-guardrails.py`, this is not one of them.) +- **Instrument with diagnostic primitives**, not guesses — at each stage inspect: `str()` / `summary()` for types & NA patterns; row & column counts *before and after* every transform; `table(factor)` to catch a silently dropped level; `cor()` / VIF for unexpected collinearity; weight diagnostics `range(w)`, `sum(w)`, `table(is.na(w))`; and the regression's convergence flag. **The stage where a count drops unexpectedly, a factor level vanishes, correlation jumps, or weights go sparse is the culprit stage.** End Phase 4 with a one-sentence root cause naming the exact line/step and mechanism. ### Phase 5 — Fix & verify (then guard against regression) +**Confidence gate (the anti-laundering rule):** do not apply a fix unless the root cause is named **and** its mechanism is explicit. If Phase 3b left a near-tie, behave as `--no-fix`: report the candidates and ask. Editing research code on an unproven hypothesis is exactly the laundering this skill exists to prevent. + Unless `--no-fix` is set: 1. Apply the **minimal** fix at the root cause — not a downstream patch that masks it (prefer fixing the bad merge over filtering its duplicate rows afterward). 2. Re-run the MWE → confirm `actual == expected` within the Phase-0 tolerance. 3. Re-run the **full** unit and any dependent step → confirm the fix didn't move another number. If the result feeds a manuscript claim, re-check it (cross-ref the passport in [`/audit-reproducibility`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md)). -4. Note a **prevention**: the assertion, test, or type-check that would have caught this earlier (a `stopifnot(nrow(df) == n)`, a post-merge row-count check) — propose it, don't silently add a test suite. +4. Note a **prevention** — the assertion/check that would have caught this earlier. One concrete guard per bug class: + + | Bug class | One-line guard | + |---|---| + | Types & coercion | `stopifnot(is.numeric(x))` after read | + | Missingness | explicit `na.rm = FALSE`; `stopifnot(sum(is.na(x)) == 0)` | + | Joins & shape | record `nrow` pre-merge; `stopifnot(nrow(out) == nrow(left))` for a 1:1 join | + | Weighting | `stopifnot(abs(sum(w) - 1) < 1e-8)` or `!anyNA(w)` | + | Convergence | assert the optimizer/model convergence flag is OK before using estimates | + | Sample | one explicit `filter()` with a stated reason, not a mid-pipe drop | + | Environment | pin versions in `renv.lock`; `set.seed()` at the top of each script | + + Propose the guard; don't silently install a test suite. With `--no-fix`, stop after the root cause is named and report it for the user to fix by hand. +## Worked example + +A staggered-DiD `ATT` jumped from `−0.043` to `−0.071` after a data refresh; nothing in the spec changed. + +```r +# Phase 1 — reproduce: set.seed(1); same script, same number every run. Red is stable. + +# Phase 2 — MWE: one cohort, two periods still shows the jump. +# Strip to: read panel -> merge covariates -> feols(). Bug survives the merge step. + +# Phase 4 — instrument: row counts before/after each step +nrow(panel) # 12,400 (expected) +nrow(merge(panel, covars, by="id")) # 12,933 <-- inflated! a many-to-many merge + +# Root cause: covars has 3 duplicate rows per id after the refresh; the join +# fans 12,400 -> 12,933, re-weighting the ATT toward the duplicated units. + +# Phase 5 — minimal fix at the root (dedup the key), NOT a downstream row filter: +covars <- covars[!duplicated(covars$id), ] +# re-run: ATT back to -0.043 within tolerance; full pipeline re-checked, no other number moved. + +# Prevention (Joins & shape guard): +stopifnot(nrow(merge(panel, covars, by = "id")) == nrow(panel)) +``` + ## Output / report format -Write a short diagnosis to `quality_reports/diagnoses/YYYY-MM-DD_.md`: +Write a short diagnosis to `quality_reports/diagnoses/YYYY-MM-DD_.md` (create the directory first: `mkdir -p quality_reports/diagnoses`). These reports may contain **real data values and file paths — they are project-internal and gitignored**, like session logs. Include: - **Symptom:** expected vs. actual (+ tolerance). - **MWE:** the minimal input/code that reproduces it. @@ -97,12 +151,25 @@ Write a short diagnosis to `quality_reports/diagnoses/YYYY-MM-DD_.md`: Plus a chat summary leading with the one-line root cause. +## Cross-language notes + +The usual-suspects model is illustrated in R but the bug *classes* are language-neutral; the diagnostic idioms differ: + +- **R** — `anyNA()` / `table(is.na(x))`; factors silently drop unused levels; `set.seed()`; `sessionInfo()`. +- **Stata** — `tab v, missing` and explicit `.`/`.a–.z` extended missing; `set seed`; `version`; weights as `[fw=]` vs `[pw=]` vs `[aw=]` is a frequent silent bug. +- **Python** — `df.isnull().sum()`; `numpy.nan` ≠ `None`; pandas vs numpy NaN handling differ; `np.random.seed()` / a passed `random_state`; `pip freeze`. + +(Forkers in other fields: the five structural classes — Types, Missingness, Joins, Sample, Environment — are discipline-neutral; the econometric suspects above are the worked instance.) + ## Exit behavior -- **Reproduced, root-caused, fixed, re-verified:** exit with the root cause, the diff, and the prevention note. -- **`--no-fix`:** stop at a named root cause; write nothing to source, only the report. -- **Cannot reproduce after Phase 1:** report the nondeterminism as the finding (it *is* the bug class) and propose how to make the analysis deterministic; do not edit blindly. -- **Symptom not statable (no expected/actual):** stop in Phase 0 and ask for the expected value — diagnosis needs a target. +| Outcome | Action | +|---|---| +| Root cause **NAMED** (high confidence), fix applied, re-verified | report root cause + diff + prevention | +| `--no-fix` | stop at a named root cause; write the report, make **no** edit to source | +| **Phase 0 blocked** (no statable expected/actual) | halt, ask for the expected value — diagnosis needs a target | +| **Phase 1 blocked** (cannot reproduce / nondeterminism) | report the nondeterminism *as* the finding (it is the bug class) + how to make the analysis deterministic; do not edit blindly | +| Phase 3b **near-tie / <50%** | report the competing hypotheses and ask the user; do not apply a fix | ## Flags @@ -111,9 +178,9 @@ Plus a chat summary leading with the one-line root cause. ## Cross-references - [`.claude/skills/review-r/SKILL.md`](../review-r/SKILL.md) — code-quality review with no specific symptom (diagnose is symptom-driven). -- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — verify all numeric claims against code; diagnose localizes a *single* failing one. +- [`.claude/skills/audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md`](../audit-reproducibility/SKILL.md) — verify all numeric claims against code; diagnose localizes a *single* failing one (and is the natural hand-off from a FAIL). - [`.claude/skills/capture-environment/SKILL.md`](../capture-environment/SKILL.md) — snapshot the environment when version/seed drift is the suspect. -- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — the tolerance contract that defines "same number". +- [`.claude/rules/replication-protocol.md`](../../rules/replication-protocol.md) — the tolerance contract that defines "same number", and the "If Mismatch" hand-off to this skill. - [`.claude/rules/orchestrator-protocol.md`](../../rules/orchestrator-protocol.md) — the fan-out primitive used for competing-hypothesis testing in Phase 3. ## What this skill does NOT do diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md index c3d518ec6..b2fbf19d2 100644 --- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ This repository is a **template** designed for academic researchers to fork and ``` 5. **Test against ≥2 domains** when adding skills/agents — show that your contribution generalizes. 6. **Install the gate once:** `./scripts/install-hooks.sh` points `core.hooksPath` at `.githooks/pre-commit`, so every commit runs the surface-sync + quality (≥80) checks locally — the same gates CI runs. -7. **Keep the surfaces in sync** when adding features. Adding a skill means **adding its row to the README `` table** *and* keeping the prose counts (e.g. "50 skills") in sync across `README.md`, `docs/index.html`, the guide, and `templates/skill-template.md`. `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` enforces **both** the counts and the table rows — run it before you open a PR. +7. **Keep the surfaces in sync** when adding features. Adding a skill means **adding its row to the README `` table** *and* keeping the prose counts (e.g. "51 skills") in sync across `README.md`, `docs/index.html`, the guide, and `templates/skill-template.md`. `./scripts/check-surface-sync.sh` enforces **both** the counts and the table rows — run it before you open a PR. ## PR style diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 2653dba01..434862818 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -55,9 +55,11 @@ CLAUDE.local.md # Quarto rendering artifacts .quarto/ -# quality_reports/ — per-project session logs, plans, specs, merges. -# The directory structure ships in the template (via .gitkeep), but the -# content is PROJECT-INTERNAL and shouldn't be inherited by forks. +# quality_reports/ — per-project session logs, plans, specs, merges, audits, +# diagnoses. The directory structure ships in the template (via .gitkeep), but +# the content is PROJECT-INTERNAL and shouldn't be inherited by forks. +# (diagnoses/ in particular may hold real data values/paths — never ship them; +# audits/ are repo-specific gap analyses, noise for a forker.) quality_reports/plans/* quality_reports/specs/* quality_reports/session_logs/* @@ -65,6 +67,8 @@ quality_reports/merges/* quality_reports/decisions/* quality_reports/checkpoints/* quality_reports/preregistrations/* +quality_reports/audits/* +quality_reports/diagnoses/* !quality_reports/plans/.gitkeep !quality_reports/specs/.gitkeep !quality_reports/session_logs/.gitkeep @@ -72,6 +76,8 @@ quality_reports/preregistrations/* !quality_reports/decisions/.gitkeep !quality_reports/checkpoints/.gitkeep !quality_reports/preregistrations/.gitkeep +!quality_reports/audits/.gitkeep +!quality_reports/diagnoses/.gitkeep # R analysis outputs (generated artifacts; keep scripts, ignore outputs) scripts/R/_outputs/ diff --git a/docs/workflow-guide.html b/docs/workflow-guide.html index 719a4ceb7..630538711 100644 --- a/docs/workflow-guide.html +++ b/docs/workflow-guide.html @@ -3597,7 +3597,7 @@

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 50: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

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    Claude Code ships with built-in skills beyond this template’s 51: /batch orchestrates parallel refactoring across your codebase (using git worktrees for isolation), /simplify runs 3-agent code review and applies fixes, and /debug helps troubleshoot sessions. These complement the academic skills above.

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    7.4 Step 4: Creating Custom Skills

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    The guide includes 50 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

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    The guide includes 51 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

    7.4.1 When to Create a Skill

    Create a skill when: - You repeatedly explain the same 3+ step workflow to Claude - You need domain-specific quality checks (citation style, notation consistency, lab protocols) - You enforce field-specific output formats (thesis structure, journal templates) - You coordinate multi-tool workflows (data → analysis → manuscript)

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    7.4 Step 4: Creating Custom Skills

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    The guide includes 50 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

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    The guide includes 51 skills for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own.

    7.4.1 When to Create a Skill

    Create a skill when: - You repeatedly explain the same 3+ step workflow to Claude - You need domain-specific quality checks (citation style, notation consistency, lab protocols) - You enforce field-specific output formats (thesis structure, journal templates) - You coordinate multi-tool workflows (data → analysis → manuscript)

    diff --git a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd index a08675e7b..1f3b56894 100644 --- a/guide/workflow-guide.qmd +++ b/guide/workflow-guide.qmd @@ -2388,7 +2388,7 @@ The template includes matching LaTeX and Quarto palettes. To customize: ## Step 4: Creating Custom Skills {#sec-create-skills} -The guide includes 50 [skills](#skills---reusable-slash-commands) for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own. +The guide includes 51 [skills](#skills---reusable-slash-commands) for common academic tasks. But if you have repetitive workflows specific to your domain, you can create your own. ### When to Create a Skill diff --git a/quality_reports/audits/.gitkeep b/quality_reports/audits/.gitkeep new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e69de29bb diff --git a/quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md b/quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md deleted file mode 100644 index b9c45b667..000000000 --- a/quality_reports/audits/2026-06-09_gold-standard-coverage-audit.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,273 +0,0 @@ -# Gold-Standard Coverage + Coherence Audit - -**Date:** 2026-06-09 · **Method:** multi-agent workflow (63 agents, 6 coverage finders + adversarial verify, 5 coherence finders + verify, synthesis + completeness critic) - -**Bar:** "gold standard for empirical economics research IN GENERAL, with DiD as the proven flagship." - -**True surface:** 50 skills · 18 agents · 32 rules · 9 references. - - -## Verdict - -> No — the repo is a gold standard for DiD specifically, and a strong general-purpose research-workflow scaffold, but it is NOT yet a gold standard for empirical economics IN GENERAL on the methods axis. The reduced-form world it serves (~55% of top-5 empirical econ per its own discipline-card) is dominated by DiD, IV, and RD; only DiD has a flagship (deep skill + HARD-rule companion + verification contract anchored on Pedro's own packages). IV and RD exist only as passing mentions in lists and a 'tailor as needed' line in /stata-replication, with no diagnostic workflow, no robust-inference guidance, no companion rule. Selection-on-observables (matching/PS/IPW) has zero implementation surface. The three moves that would most change the answer: (1) build a /iv-2sls flagship (highest-frequency uncovered workhorse, carries weak-instrument inference + LATE/MTE as bundled modules); (2) build a /rdd-analysis flagship (sharp+fuzzy, rdrobust/rddensity, mirrors the /did-event-study pattern); (3) ship a shared quasi-experimental-design rule + a selection-on-observables surface (matching/PS/IPW/overlap), so every new method inherits one inference/robustness substrate instead of re-deriving it. The coherence side is healthy: nearly all overlap findings resolve to 'leave as is' (the review/verification/memory families are intentional, complementary layers), so the work is almost entirely additive — build the missing method flagships, not untangle existing ones. - - -## Build map — flagship candidates - - -### [P0] `/iv-2sls (IV / 2SLS flagship, with weak-instrument inference and LATE/MTE as bundled modules)` - -IV/2SLS is the highest-frequency uncovered workhorse in reduced-form econ (the dominant ~55% paper-type per the repo's own discipline-card lists DiD, IV, RD as the core trio). Current coverage is passing mentions only (methods-referee F>10 sanity line, power-analysis 'weak-instrument-aware' phrase, lists in research-ideation/grant-proposal) — no diagnostic workflow, no robust inference, no companion rule. Build to general best practice mirroring /did-event-study: design+specification, first-stage diagnostics (effective F / Kleibergen-Paap), weak-ID-robust inference (Anderson-Rubin, Stock-Yogo), and LATE-vs-ATE interpretation. CONFIRMED: weak-instrument inference and LATE/MTE are genuinely absent as substantive coverage; fold them in as modules of this skill rather than separate skills so IV is taught as a coherent whole (what it identifies, on whom, and when it is credible). Package orchestration: ivreg/estimatr/ivDiag (R), ivreg2/weakivtest (Stata). - -*depends_on:* shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule (see consolidate_retire); reuses /power-analysis + /simulation-study harness for weak-instrument simulation-based power - - -### [P0] `/rdd-analysis (Regression discontinuity — sharp and fuzzy)` - -RDD is the third leg of the reduced-form trio (~10% of applied-micro reduced-form work) and, like IV, exists only in lists plus a 'RD with rdrobust' tailoring line in /stata-replication — no skill, no rule, no diagnostic suite. Build to general best practice on the /did-event-study template: continuity/no-manipulation verification, data-driven bandwidth selection and robustness, local-polynomial estimation, balance and covariate-smoothness at the cutoff, McCrary/rddensity manipulation test, fake-cutoff placebos, bandwidth sensitivity. Support both sharp and fuzzy (fuzzy shares the first-stage/compliers logic with the IV flagship, so build IV first). Package orchestration: rdrobust, rddensity, rdpower. - -*depends_on:* /iv-2sls (fuzzy RD reuses IV first-stage/LATE machinery); shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule - - -### [P0] `did-conventions.md / /did-event-study (the proven flagship — already shipped; keep as the template all others copy)` — **⟨anchored on Pedro's packages⟩** - -This is the existing gold-standard exemplar, anchored on Pedro's own packages (did/DRDID/didFF/contdid) with a HARD-rule companion, a verification contract (R is the benchmark; ports must match to 1e-6), and an 8-phase diagnostic pipeline. pedro_resource=TRUE here only. It is NOT a build candidate — it is listed as P0 to mark it as the reference architecture every other flagship in this map must replicate (deep skill + HARD-rule companion + verification + sensitivity-not-gate framing). Continuous-dose (contdid) is flagged ALPHA in the rule; keep that caveat as the API stabilizes. - -*depends_on:* none — it is the dependency target / pattern source - - -### [P1] `/matching-weighting (selection-on-observables: matching / propensity score / IPW / entropy balancing)` - -CONFIRMED genuinely thin: PS appears only inside the DiD doubly-robust context (did-conventions PS trimming) and as an editor overlap/common-support peeve; zero standalone selection-on-observables workflow and zero matching/weighting package surface in the repo. Standard across observational work in many econ subfields and adjacent disciplines the template targets. Build to general best practice: PS specification + diagnostics, balance assessment (SMD/Love plot), overlap/common-support verification, estimator choice (matching, IPW, AIPW/doubly-robust, entropy balancing), and sensitivity to unobserved confounding (E-value / Rosenbaum bounds). Natural conceptual sibling to the DiD DR estimator already in the repo, so it strengthens the existing flagship's foundations. Packages: MatchIt, WeightIt, cobalt (R). - -*depends_on:* shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule - - -### [P1] `/panel-models (correlated random effects / Mundlak + generic panel FE guardrails; dynamic-panel GMM as a P2 module)` - -Two CONFIRMED/PLAUSIBLE panel gaps consolidate into one flagship. (a) Mundlak/CRE is CONFIRMED entirely absent — no FE-vs-RE specification testing, no Hausman/CRE framework. (b) Generic (non-DiD) panel FE is PLAUSIBLE-thin: TWFE is taught well but ONLY inside the staggered-DiD context; standard panel-FE settings, within-estimator asymptotics, Nickell bias, and clustering guardrails have no home. Build to general best practice as a single panel-estimation skill that covers when TWFE is correct (clean 2-period/static designs), CRE/Mundlak as the short-panel alternative, FE-vs-RE choice, and proper clustering — explicitly cross-referencing /did-event-study for the 'under staggered timing, do not headline TWFE' boundary so the two never contradict. Dynamic-panel GMM (Arellano-Bond / system GMM, CONFIRMED absent) is a lower-frequency macro/finance/growth tool — ship it as a P2 module inside this skill, not its own flagship. - -*depends_on:* shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule; reuses /data-analysis fixest panel scaffolding - - -### [P2] `/synth-control (synthetic control / synthetic DiD)` - -CONFIRMED thin (three list-mentions only), but deliberately deprioritized: the v2.0-backlog records an explicit, reasoned decision NOT to ship a standalone synthetic-control estimator skill, citing the risk that 'a plausible-but-wrong estimator launders authority.' Honor that decision — keep at P2 and, if built, build it as a verification-and-diagnostics wrapper (donor-pool/weight transparency, pre-fit balance, placebo/permutation inference) around a vetted package (synth, synthdid, scpi), NOT as a from-scratch estimator. Synthetic DiD (Arkhangelsky et al.) is the natural bridge to the DiD flagship and could alternatively live as a --synthetic note cross-referenced from /did-event-study. - -*depends_on:* /did-event-study (synthetic DiD bridges to it); shared inference rule for placebo/permutation inference - - -## Extend generic (module, not a new skill) - -- **Regression kink design** — _module within /rdd-analysis (or the shared quasi-experimental design rule)_ : CONFIRMED absent, medium priority. Do NOT build a standalone skill — kink shares continuity/local-polynomial logic with RDD. Add as an optional module inside /rdd-analysis once that flagship exists (it is a slope-change-at-threshold variant of the same machinery). -- **Bunching / notch design (excess-mass and counterfactual-density tests)** — _module within /rdd-analysis_ : CONFIRMED absent, medium priority and lower-frequency (labor/public econ niche). Saez(2010)/Kleven-Waseem framework is specialized; do not spin up its own flagship. Add as a narrow module within /rdd-analysis or the shared threshold/discontinuity rule, after IV and RDD ship. -- **Local projections / impulse-response / dynamic causal effects (Jorda 2005)** — _deferred module (future time-series-causal skill) — not /data-analysis_ : CONFIRMED absent, medium priority and mostly macro/time-series (less central to the applied-micro core the repo serves). Better as a future module than a standalone flagship; if a time-series-causal surface ever emerges, fold it there. Do not build ahead of the reduced-form trio. -- **Weak-instrument inference / many-instrument asymptotics** — _module within /iv-2sls + a paragraph in the shared quasi-experimental design + inference rule_ : CONFIRMED a real gap, but explicitly NOT a separate skill — it is core IV content. Fold Anderson-Rubin / Stock-Yogo / effective-F / many-instrument guidance directly into the /iv-2sls flagship and reference it from the shared inference rule. Listed here only to record the routing decision (extend the IV flagship, do not create a standalone surface). -- **LATE / MTE / complier interpretation** — _module within /iv-2sls_ : PLAUSIBLE gap; pedagogical and interpretive rather than a separate workflow. Ship as the 'what does IV identify' module of /iv-2sls (LATE vs ATE, monotonicity/exclusion/relevance, external-validity-only-on-compliers). Do not create a standalone skill. -- **Dynamic-panel GMM (Arellano-Bond / system GMM)** — _P2 module within /panel-models_ : CONFIRMED absent but lower-frequency (macro/finance/growth). Ship as a P2 module inside the /panel-models flagship (Nickell bias, lag structure, first-difference vs system GMM, instrument-count/overid diagnostics), not its own flagship. - -## Consolidate / retire / fix - -- **create-new-rule** (new file: .claude/rules/quasi-experimental-conventions.md (HARD/SHOULD companion for IV, RDD, matching/PS — the sibling to did-conventions.md)): The single highest-leverage coherence move. did-conventions.md proves the pattern: a deep skill needs a HARD-rule companion. Rather than each new method flagship (/iv-2sls, /rdd-analysis, /matching-weighting, /panel-models) re-deriving inference and robustness, create ONE shared design rule that states the per-method HARD guardrails and points to the existing inference-robustness.md for multiple-testing/clustering/spec-robustness substrate and to /power-analysis + /simulation-study for design-stage power. This is what 'depends_on' references throughout the flagship list. Build this rule first, then hang the skills off it. NOT a consolidation of existing surfaces — it is the missing connective tissue that keeps four new flagships mutually consistent and consistent with the DiD flagship. -- **leave (do NOT consolidate) — clarify positioning only** (.claude/skills/review-paper/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/seven-pass-review/SKILL.md): PLAUSIBLE overlap but recommendation is LEAVE with HIGH risk-if-changed. review-paper is the default; seven-pass is the heavier ~7x-token maximum-lens option for submission-ready/R&R papers. Both are load-bearing (review-paper --peer is used in cross-artifact pipelines; seven-pass is called by /slide-excellence for teaching papers). Do NOT merge. The only action is a one-line positioning clarification ('default to /review-paper; reach for /seven-pass-review only when maximum lens coverage justifies the token cost') so users stop confusing the two. -- **fix dead reference** (.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md:87): PLAUSIBLE low-stakes clarity fix. Line 87's prose 'rules/guide' reads as a literal path that does not exist; it means 'the rules and the guide.' Reword to the concrete targets (e.g. '.claude/rules/*.md and guide/workflow-guide.qmd') so the audit instruction is unambiguous. Not load-bearing, no user-facing API depends on it; aligns with the documented drift-hazard pattern (pet-peeve #18). -- **defer naming disambiguation (do NOT rename now)** (.claude/agents/claim-verifier.md, .claude/agents/verifier.md, .claude/agents/domain-referee.md, .claude/agents/domain-reviewer.md): Pure UX/clarity issue, ZERO functional overlap (CoVe-prose vs build-compilation; manuscript-peer-review vs slide-content-template). The similar names confuse new users but the agents own distinct surfaces and the names are not load-bearing conflicts. Defer a future rename (e.g. cove-verifier / build-verifier / manuscript-referee / slide-content-reviewer) to a later cleanup release; do not touch as part of the methods build-out. - -## Leave as-is (already strong) - -- /did-event-study + did-conventions.md — the proven flagship; the reference architecture, already gold-standard. Do not over-build around it; copy its pattern instead. -- /simulation-study + simulation-conventions.md + sim-reviewer — Monte Carlo capability already shipped (v1.10.0); reuse it as the engine for simulation-based power and method validation rather than re-implementing. -- /power-analysis — already routes non-closed-form designs (DiD, IV, panel) to the simulation harness; extend it from the new method skills, don't replace it. -- inference-robustness.md — already consolidates multiple-testing (Romano-Wolf / Anderson q-values), spec-multiverse, leave-one-out, and few-cluster inference. This is the shared inference substrate; new flagships should reference it, not duplicate it. -- audit-reproducibility + verify-claims — orthogonal verification surfaces (numeric-claim-vs-code vs CoVe-on-prose), both load-bearing; correctly separate. -- Review/verification/memory/context families (review-paper vs seven-pass, claim-verifier vs verifier, learn vs promote-memory, checkpoint vs compress-session vs context-status, visual-audit vs slide-excellence, domain-referee vs domain-reviewer) — all verified as intentional complementary layers, recommendation LEAVE. The coherence audit found no genuine consolidation targets; the work is additive (build missing methods), not subtractive. -- orchestrator-protocol.md fan-out -> reduce -> judge + hallucination-gate -> loop-until-dry runtime — mature and reusable; every new method flagship's review loop should plug into it unchanged. - -## Recommended sequencing - -1. FIRST build the connective tissue: create .claude/rules/quasi-experimental-conventions.md (the did-conventions.md sibling) that states per-method HARD guardrails and points to the existing inference-robustness.md and /simulation-study + /power-analysis harness. Every method flagship depends on this, so it must exist before the skills to avoid four divergent inference re-derivations. -2. Build /iv-2sls (P0) on the /did-event-study template, with weak-instrument inference and LATE/MTE folded in as modules. IV is the highest-frequency uncovered workhorse and its first-stage/compliers machinery is reused by fuzzy RD, so it precedes RDD. -3. Build /rdd-analysis (P0) — sharp + fuzzy; fuzzy reuses the IV first-stage from step 2. Kink and bunching attach later as optional modules here, not as separate skills. -4. Build /matching-weighting (P1) — selection-on-observables; conceptually reinforces the DiD doubly-robust foundation already in the repo and has zero current surface. -5. Build /panel-models (P1) — CRE/Mundlak + generic panel-FE guardrails, cross-referencing /did-event-study's 'no TWFE headline under staggered timing' boundary so the two never contradict; add dynamic-panel GMM as a P2 module afterward. -6. P2 / opportunistic: /synth-control only as a vetted-package verification wrapper (honoring the v2.0-backlog non-goal), plus the small kink/bunching/local-projections modules. Build only after the reduced-form trio (IV, RDD) and panel/matching are solid. -7. Cheap parallel cleanup (any time, non-blocking): fix the deep-audit:87 'rules/guide' dead-ref wording; add the one-line review-paper-vs-seven-pass positioning note. Defer the agent renames to a later cleanup release — do not bundle them with the methods build-out. - -## Completeness critic (confidence: high) — blind spots no finder checked - -- **RCT / field-experiment ANALYSIS workflow (balance, attrition, ITT/LATE, multiple arms, spillovers) — distinct from the design-stage /preregister + /power-analysis** → Build a /rct-analysis (a.k.a. /experiment-analysis) flagship on the /did-event-study template: pre-specified-analysis adherence check against the PAP, balance + differential-attrition tables (iebaltab/cobalt), ITT as headline + LATE/TOT via the IV first-stage, multiple-arm and multiple-outcome correction (reuse inference-robustness.md Romano-Wolf / Anderson q-values), clustered + randomization inference, and a heterogeneity/pre-registered-subgroup module. It closes the loop with the already-strong /preregister + /power-analysis design stage and inherits the shared quasi-experimental inference rule. -- **Structural estimation + welfare / counterfactual policy simulation (the ~20% structural slice's PRODUCTION surface)** → At minimum add a structural-conventions rule + a sufficient-statistics / welfare-counterfactual reporting checklist (identification of structural parameters, calibration-vs-estimation transparency, moment fit on non-targeted moments, counterfactual within covariate support, standard errors that propagate estimation uncertainty into welfare numbers, sensitivity to functional-form/distributional assumptions). A /structural-counterfactual or /welfare-simulation skill is the larger move; even the lightweight reporting rule would stop structural papers from inheriting only a reduced-form substrate. Note this is lower-frequency-per-paper but high-stakes (welfare claims drive policy). -- **Measurement / index construction / latent-variable methods (PCA, factor analysis, IRT, scale reliability, inter-rater agreement)** → Add a /measurement (index-construction) skill or at least a measurement-conventions rule: standardization and weighting choices, PCA/factor extraction and rotation, IRT for binary/ordinal items, reliability (Cronbach's alpha / omega), inter-rater reliability (kappa/ICC) for hand-coded data, and how measurement error propagates into downstream regressions (attenuation, EIV corrections). Cross-reference it from /data-analysis (which currently goes straight from load to regression with no construct-validity step). -- **Text-as-data / NLP-for-economics (scraping, dictionary methods, topic models, embeddings, LLM-as-annotator validation)** → Add a /text-as-data skill (or a textmeasurement-conventions rule): reproducible scraping + provenance/ToS capture, preprocessing decisions as researcher-degrees-of-freedom (tokenization, stemming, vocabulary cuts), dictionary vs supervised vs topic-model vs embedding measurement, and — critically for 2026 — a validation protocol for LLM-as-annotator pipelines (human-coded gold set, inter-rater agreement, measurement-error propagation into downstream regressions). This also has an integrity angle the repo cares about (reproducibility of a moving web corpus). -- **Missing-data methodology + survey/sampling weights (multiple imputation, MAR/MCAR/MNAR, raking/post-stratification, design weights)** → Add a /missing-and-weights skill or a survey-data-conventions rule covering: missingness diagnostics + mechanism reasoning (MCAR/MAR/MNAR), multiple imputation (mice/Amelia) vs complete-case vs IPW-for-missingness with the bias trade-offs, and complex-survey handling (design weights, strata/PSU, raking/post-stratification with survey/srvyr in R, svy: in Stata). Explicitly distinguish survey/design weights from the causal IPW/entropy-balancing weights in the planned /matching-weighting flagship so the two are not conflated. -- **AI-use / authorship disclosure and research-integrity norms (CRediT, COI, journal AI-disclosure statements) — NOT statistical disclosure** → Add a lightweight /submission-disclosures skill (or fold into /replication-package's README phase): generate an AI-use disclosure statement matching the target journal's policy, a CRediT contributor-roles block, a COI statement, and a data-availability statement. Pair with the journal-profiles reference so the statement matches venue policy. Low cost, high relevance to this specific toolkit's own positioning. -- **Causal mediation analysis (decomposing direct vs indirect effects; mechanism estimation)** → Add a causal-mediation module — most naturally a module inside the shared quasi-experimental inference rule or a /mechanism-analysis skill: natural direct/indirect effect estimation (mediation/CMAverse), the sequential-ignorability assumption and its implausibility, sensitivity analysis for mediator-outcome confounding, and an explicit 'do not just add the mediator as a control' bad-controls warning. Cross-reference from /review-paper's identification dimension. -- **Forecasting / nowcasting / out-of-sample predictive evaluation** → Defer, but record the routing: if a time-series-causal surface (local projections, per the action-map's deferred Jorda module) is ever built, fold forecasting/nowcasting evaluation (proper-scoring/loss, rolling-origin CV, Diebold-Mariano/Giacomini-White, nowcast revision triangles) in alongside it rather than spinning up a standalone flagship ahead of the reduced-form trio. -- **Reproducible-compute build orchestration (Make / targets / Snakemake pipeline DAGs) as a first-class artifact** → Add a build-orchestration module to /capture-environment or /replication-package: when to graduate from a linear 00_run_all to a targets (R) / Make / Snakemake DAG, how to express Table->script dependencies as build targets (mirroring the cross-artifact dependency graph the repo already documents), and how the DAG makes 'the package rebuilds from scratch deterministically' verifiable rather than asserted. Low effort, high payoff for the post-analysis lifecycle the repo already invests in. - -### Critic disagreements with the synthesis - -- PRIORITY MIS-WEIGHT — RCT analysis is under-counted. The action-map treats RCTs as fully served by /preregister + /power-analysis (design) and folds LATE/compliers into /iv-2sls. But the repo's own econ discipline-card makes field-experiments/RCTs the ONE paper type with MANDATORY preregistration (AEA RCT Registry), i.e. a self-declared first-class object. A toolkit that can design and power an RCT but cannot run the balance/attrition/ITT/LATE/multiple-arm analysis has a hole at least as large as the RD hole the map ranks P0. /rct-analysis deserves P0-P1, not silent absorption into /iv-2sls. -- SEQUENCING — /matching-weighting (selection-on-observables) is ranked P1 below the IV/RDD P0 flagships, but the action-map itself notes it is the conceptual sibling that strengthens the EXISTING DiD doubly-robust flagship (DRDID), and it is the substrate every observational-econ and adjacent-discipline paper needs. Given the repo's stated multi-discipline-template ambition (poli-sci shipped; psych/socio/public-health on the backlog), selection-on-observables generalizes far better across disciplines than IV/RDD do. I would argue it is effectively P0.5 — build it right after the shared inference rule and before RDD, because it has the highest reuse-per-build of the four new flagships. -- FRAMING GAP, not a ranking error — the action-map is explicitly and correctly scoped to the METHODS (estimator) axis and the COHERENCE axis, and it says so. My disagreement is that the headline ('gold standard for DiD, not yet for empirical econ in general') is stated as a methods-axis verdict but reads as a general verdict. The cross-cutting blind spots above (measurement, text-as-data, missing-data/weights, structural-welfare PRODUCTION, integrity/AI-disclosure) mean the gap to 'gold standard for empirical econ in general' is WIDER than the four-reduced-form-flagships story implies — even after IV/RDD/matching/panel all ship, the data-production and integrity surfaces would still be empty. The map should say so explicitly so a reader does not conclude 'four flagships ~= done.' -- SYNTHETIC CONTROL — agree with P2 and with honoring the documented 'plausible-but-wrong estimator launders authority' non-build decision. No disagreement on the verdict; I only note the map's own logic (wrap a vetted package, never re-implement the estimator) is exactly the right template for the structural-welfare and text-as-data blind spots too, where the from-scratch risk is even higher — the map could state that principle once as a reusable build-policy rather than per-skill. - -## Full coverage matrix - - -**Quasi-experimental causal (non-DiD)** - -| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| Instrumental variables (IV) / 2SLS / Two-stage least squares | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Weak-instrument inference / many-instrument asymptotics | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| LATE (local average treatment effect) / Marginal treatment effect (MTE) | absent | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Regression discontinuity design (RDD) — sharp and fuzzy | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Regression kink design / Kink estimator | absent | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| Bunching / Notch design (mass point & density tests) | absent | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| Synthetic control method / Synthetic DiD | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| Matching / Propensity score methods / IPW (inverse probability weighting) | thin | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Local projections / Dynamic treatment effects / Impulse-response analysis | absent | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | - -**Panel / DiD-adjacent / causal-ML** - -| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| Panel fixed effects & TWFE (Two-Way FE) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Mundlak / Correlated Random Effects (CRE) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Dynamic panel / GMM (Arellano-Bond, system GMM) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Event-study (canonical focus) | flagship | leave | — | ✓ | -| Double / Debiased ML (DML), Chernozhukov-type approaches | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Causal forests / GRF (Athey-Wager) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Heterogeneous treatment effects / CATE (conditional average treatment effects) | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| Continuous-treatment / dose-response | adequate | extend-generic | — | ✓ | -| Local projections / lag-response dynamics | absent | leave | CONFIRMED | | -| Regression discontinuity (RDD) / sharp & fuzzy designs | thin | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Instrumental variables (IV / TSLS) | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Panel inference robustness (clustering, wild bootstrap, few-treated) | adequate | leave | — | | -| Synthetic control & related methods | thin | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Matching / propensity-score methods | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | -| Covariate balance & covariate control (selection on observables) | adequate | extend-generic | — | | -| Specification robustness / specification curves / multiverse | adequate | extend-generic | — | | -| Simulation study (finite-sample properties, power, design validation) | flagship | leave | — | | - -**Structural / time-series / distributional** - -| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| GMM / MLE / SMM estimation | absent | build-flagship | REFUTED | | -| Discrete choice & demand (logit, BLP) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Dynamic structural models & estimation | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | -| Time-series econometrics (ARIMA, VAR, LP) | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Macro-econometrics (DSGE, GE, calibration) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Quantile & distributional regression | absent | build-flagship | CONFIRMED | | -| Spatial econometrics & network econometrics | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| Bootstrap & resampling inference (wild, cluster, block) | adequate | leave | — | | -| Heterogeneous treatment effects & effect modification | adequate | leave | — | | -| Regression discontinuity & local methods | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Synthetic control & matching methods | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | - -**Pre-analysis research lifecycle** - -| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| Research Ideation | flagship | leave | — | | -| Literature Review | flagship | leave | — | | -| Data Acquisition (APIs, web-scraping, admin data) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Data Provenance & Licensing | adequate | leave | — | | -| Data Cleaning & Wrangling | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Data Validation & Quality Assurance | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | -| Power & MDE Calculation | flagship | leave | — | | -| Pre-Registration & Pre-Analysis Plans | flagship | leave | — | | -| Sampling & Sample Weights | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| Data Management Planning | flagship | leave | — | | - -**Post-analysis research lifecycle** - -| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| Regression tables & statistical exhibits (esttab/modelsummary conventions) | adequate | extend-generic | — | | -| Figure production (ggplot2, visualization best-practices, readability standards) | thin | extend-generic | CONFIRMED | | -| Scientific writing quality (prose, tone, hedge accuracy, AI-voice detection) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Comprehensive manuscript review (single-pass, adversarial, simulated peer-review pipeline) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Seven-pass review (7 parallel lenses, synthesized) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Responding to referees (mapping referee concerns to revisions, classification, drafting responses) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Replication packages (DCAS-compliant deposit, README, environment capture, Table→Script map) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Disclosure/statistical-disclosure-limitation screening (pre-release data checking for restricted data) | flagship | leave | — | | -| IRB/human-subjects oversight (protocol design, consent, data minimization) | adequate | extend-generic | — | | -| Journal submission & manuscript formatting (journal-specific conventions, submission checklists) | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Environment capture & computational reproducibility (lockfiles, seeds, session info) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Verification of numeric claims (audit-reproducibility, tolerance contracts, EXPLAINED mechanism) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Bibliography validation & citation consistency (structural + semantic audit) | adequate | leave | — | | - -**Inference, robustness & computation** - -| topic | status | recommendation | verify | pedro | -|---|---|---|---|---| -| Cluster-Robust & HAC Standard Errors | adequate | extend-generic | — | | -| Multiple Testing Correction (Romano-Wolf, Sharpened-q, Anderson FDR) | flagship | leave | — | | -| Randomization & Permutation Inference | thin | extend-generic | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Bootstrap & Wild-Cluster Bootstrap | adequate | extend-generic | — | | -| Specification Curve & Sensitivity Analysis | thin | build-flagship | PLAUSIBLE | | -| Partial Identification & Bounds | absent | na | REFUTED | | -| Reproducibility: Seeds, Environment Capture, Containers | flagship | leave | — | | -| HPC, Parallel Workflows, Large-Data Scaling | thin | extend-generic | REFUTED | | -| DiD-Specific Diagnostics & Sensitivity (Pedro Sant'Anna Vault) | flagship | leave | — | ✓ | -| Data Validation & Panel Balance Checking | adequate | extend-generic | — | | -| Cross-Artifact Verification (Code ↔ Manuscript Numeric Claims) | flagship | leave | — | | - -## Coherence findings - - -**Redundancy / overlapping surfaces** - -- [overlap→leave —] Review/audit family: deep-audit, seven-pass-review, review-paper, and review-r span mechanical checks, parallel adversarial lenses, and comprehensive pipelines with overlapping scope. -- [overlap→leave —] Verification family: verify-claims and audit-reproducibility both implement verification gates but target different factual-type domains (citations/literature vs numeric-claim reproducibility). -- [overlap→leave —] Claim-verifier vs verifier agents: claim-verifier (forked, fresh-context CoVe) and verifier (TikZ/compilation checks) are DISTINCT agents with no functional overlap despite similar names. -- [overlap→leave —] Context/session family: checkpoint, compress-session, and context-status are COMPLEMENTARY, not overlapping. checkpoint is explicit stop-point snapshot; compress-session is forced distillation before auto-compact; context-status is a read-only health check. -- [overlap→leave —] Memory family: learn and promote-memory are a two-stage pipeline (capture → promotion), not duplicative. learn extracts skills from sessions; promote-memory runs a five-critic council to decide what enters MEMORY.md (generic) vs stays in personal-memory.md (local). -- [overlap→leave —] Referee/review agents: domain-referee (manuscript disposition-primed substantive reviewer) and domain-reviewer (slide template reviewer for pedagogical correctness) are DISTINCT despite similar names. -- [depth-gap→leave —] Visual-audit skill (Quarto/Beamer layout) vs slide-excellence orchestrator: visual-audit is a single lens; slide-excellence fans out visual-audit + pedagogy-review + proofread in parallel. -- [naming→leave —] Three agents with similar names in different contexts could confuse new users: claim-verifier (CoVe prose), domain-referee (manuscript peer-review), domain-reviewer (lecture content template). - -**Dead / stale cross-references** - -- [dead-ref→fix PLAUSIBLE] Dead reference to 'rules/guide' which does not exist -- [other→leave —] Retired skills `/prompt` and `/prompt-only` are correctly documented as historical references, not dead cross-references - -**Surface-count drift** - -- [count-drift→fix CONFIRMED] CHANGELOG v2.0.0 asserts '30 rules' but README, guide, and on-disk inventory show 32 rules -- [count-drift→leave REFUTED] Briefing document claims 51 skills but repository contains 50; README correctly asserts 50 -- [count-drift→leave CONFIRMED] Briefing claims 33 rules but repository contains 32; README correctly asserts 32 - -**Rule contradictions & depth asymmetry** - -- [contradiction→consolidate REFUTED] BEAMER-QUARTO-SYNC vs. SINGLE-SOURCE-OF-TRUTH conflict on handling manual Quarto edits -- [depth-gap→fix —] DID-CONVENTIONS has 'insanely high' 73-line standard with numeric tolerances (1e-6), HonestDiD + didFF mandatory, exact bootstrap iterations (25000 for publication); INFERENCE-ROBUSTNESS gives generic 3-paragraph guidance on specification robustness with no methodology names, no numeric standards, no enforcement mechanism. -- [contradiction→fix —] QUALITY-GATES § thresholds are 'advisory' (80/90/95 in harness, real enforcement only post-hook install); DID-CONVENTIONS requires exact numeric precision (1e-6 point estimates, 1e-6 SEs) with no opt-out. -- [dead-ref→fix REFUTED] CONTENT-INVARIANTS § INV-6 references no-pause-beamer.md but NO-PAUSE-BEAMER gives zero rationale, contradicting the pedagogical design of other invariants. -- [depth-gap→consolidate REFUTED] REPLICATION-PROTOCOL has heavyweight passport.yaml system (PASS/FAIL/EXPLAINED/STALE/UNVERIFIED statuses, git integration with /commit enforcement). INFERENCE-ROBUSTNESS on specification robustness has only prose guidance with no tracking mechanism. -- [contradiction→consolidate —] VERIFICATION-PROTOCOL (task completion, mechanical: 'did the PDF render?') vs. POST-FLIGHT-VERIFICATION (hallucination, semantic: 'did the literature claim hold?') — both called 'verification' but measuring opposite things. -- [overlap→consolidate —] DID-CONVENTIONS § Verification (R as benchmark, 1e-6 tolerance) duplicates replication-protocol.md § Phase 3 (tolerance thresholds, PASS/FAIL status tracking) with different language and enforcement. -- [overlap→leave —] TIKZ-MEASUREMENT.md (six-pass protocol with Pass 0-6 systematic checks) and TIKZ-PREVENTION.md (rules P1-P6 about not writing colliding TikZ in the first place) and TIKZ-VISUAL-QUALITY.md (label positioning, visual semantics) — all three rules govern TikZ but at different stages (design/authoring vs. review vs. measurement). -- [naming→fix —] SESSION-LOGGING.md defines 'Quality Reports' (line 57-59) as merged-time artifacts, but ORCHESTRATOR-PROTOCOL.md line 6 references 'Step 6: SCORE — quality_score.py / hard-gate roll-up', suggesting quality reports are generated on every run of the review loop. -- [depth-gap→leave —] MODEL-ROUTING.md gives detailed 70/20/10 allocation and effort-axis guidance for cost optimization. NO comparable cost/effort guidance exists for other dimensions (e.g., should a literature review use Sonnet or Haiku? should a slide audit be low/medium/high effort?). - -**Naming / discoverability / frontmatter** - -- [overlap→fix —] Two skills (context-status, deep-audit) are missing the optional 'argument-hint' frontmatter field, while most peers include it. Neither skill takes arguments, but inconsistency signals they may have been created before the field became standard. -- [naming→leave —] Skill naming conventions are inconsistent across three patterns: imperative verbs (audit-reproducibility, compile-latex), nouns (syllabus, checkpoint), and adj-noun compounds (slide-excellence, seven-pass-review). No single pattern dominates. This creates mild cognitive friction when users scan the full skill list, as some skills look like commands and others like objects. -- [dead-ref→fix —] The skill r-package-check claims in its description to 'produce a check report + CRAN-submission checklist' (lines 1-2 of SKILL.md), yet its allowed-tools field does not include 'Write' or 'Edit'. This creates a discrepancy: the frontmatter promises written output, but the declared tools don't include writing capabilities. -- [count-drift→fix —] The prompt inventory states '51 skills' but the actual directory count is 50. The discrepancy arises because 'learn' is a template/example skill (at .claude/skills/learn/SKILL.md) that contains placeholder names ('descriptive-kebab-case-name', 'fixest-missing-covariate-handling') in its body, not a deployed skill. The learn/SKILL.md file itself uses 'name: learn' in the frontmatter, but its body serves as a tutorial showing users how to create skills, not a live skill. -- [other→leave —] Eight v2.0 skills appear after the v1.10.0 skills in the README comprehensive table, grouped at the end (lines 258-271). This creates a discovery friction: users scanning the README table quickly may assume newer skills stop after the '(v1.10.0)' section and miss power-analysis, replication-package, did-event-study, capture-environment, disclosure-check, grant-proposal, data-management-plan, coauthor-brief, triage-inbox, syllabus, teach-from-paper, respond-to-eval, scaffold-exercises, and new-skill. A user skimming to 'most recent' would have to scan down further. - ---- - -## Decisions (2026-06-09) - -- **Methods build-out DEFERRED.** Coverage gaps confirmed (the reduced-form trio: DiD shipped; IV, RD, matching/PS, panel-CRE missing) but the build program is not started this session. The full prioritized map above is the standing roadmap. -- **When built, priority order is (critic-adopted):** Step-0 `quasi-experimental-conventions.md` rule → `/iv-2sls` (P0) → **`/matching-weighting` (moved ahead of RDD** — selection-on-observables generalizes across disciplines and reinforces the existing DiD-DR foundation) → `/rdd-analysis` (P0, fuzzy reuses IV first-stage) → `/panel-models` (P1) → **`/rct-analysis` is a first-class P0** (field experiments are the only mandatory-prereg paper type; not absorbed into IV's LATE module). `/synth-control` stays P2, wrapper-only (honors the documented "plausible-but-wrong estimator launders authority" non-goal). -- **Bar distinction:** only DiD carries Pedro's name (1e-6-against-his-own-packages). The new method flagships are COMMUNITY-STANDARD — built by orchestrating the canonical vetted packages (rdrobust, ivreg/ivDiag, MatchIt/WeightIt, fixest), never reimplementing, validated against those packages — NOT to the DiD 1e-6 bar. -- **Wider program (completeness critic, high confidence):** even after the method flagships, data-production + integrity surfaces stay empty — measurement/index construction, text-as-data (incl. LLM-as-annotator validation), missing-data + survey weights, structural-welfare production checklist, AI-use/authorship disclosure, reproducible-compute DAGs. These are later phases, not "four skills ≈ done." -- **This session:** coherence cleanup only — CHANGELOG rule-count drift (30→32, +2→+4 rules) and deep-audit:87 "rules/guide" wording. r-package-check `Write` and argument-hint findings inspected and intentionally NOT changed (gate-green non-issues). diff --git a/quality_reports/diagnoses/.gitkeep b/quality_reports/diagnoses/.gitkeep new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e69de29bb diff --git a/scripts/check-surface-sync.py b/scripts/check-surface-sync.py index 082192808..e5feb424f 100755 --- a/scripts/check-surface-sync.py +++ b/scripts/check-surface-sync.py @@ -95,10 +95,18 @@ # template (not attribution, not a generic count). Each must be a scaffold # specific enough that false positives are unlikely. SINGULAR_PHRASINGS: list[tuple[str, str]] = [ - # "this template's 27" (prose shortcut in Built-In Skills callout) - (r"this template's\s+(\d+)\b", "skills"), + # "this template's 27" (prose shortcut in Built-In Skills callout). + # Match BOTH the ASCII apostrophe and the typographic ’ (U+2019) that + # Quarto emits in rendered HTML — a straight-quote-only regex let + # docs/workflow-guide.html drift to a stale count past a green gate. + (r"this template['’]s\s+(\d+)\b", "skills"), # "(N skills for LaTeX..." (templates/skill-template.md trailing note) (r"\((\d+)\s+skills?\s+for\b", "skills"), + # "The guide includes N skills" — the guide's .qmd prose AND its rendered + # HTML (an tag sits between the number and "skills", so match the + # number right after "guide includes"). This prose form matched none of + # the count regexes at v2.0 and shipped a stale "50" to live users. + (r"guide includes\s+(\d+)\b", "skills"), ] # Enumerative-table markers. A surface opts a markdown table into the From 82043ca25c69e931f814dac5a577b109c70eaffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pedrohcgs Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 17:33:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 19/19] fix(diagnose): correct worked-example arithmetic (round-2 convergence) Round-2 adversarial audit caught a real arithmetic contradiction in the worked example: '3 duplicate rows per id' implies ~4x inflation (12,400 -> ~49,600), but the example showed 12,400 -> 12,933. Reframed to 'duplicate covars rows for a subset of ids -> +533 rows', which is internally consistent and matches the displayed merge output. 'many-to-many merge' kept (correct for a panel: many periods per id x duplicated covars per id). Round 2 is now dry. --- .claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md index 762006045..eed39353b 100644 --- a/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md +++ b/.claude/skills/diagnose/SKILL.md @@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ A staggered-DiD `ATT` jumped from `−0.043` to `−0.071` after a data refresh; nrow(panel) # 12,400 (expected) nrow(merge(panel, covars, by="id")) # 12,933 <-- inflated! a many-to-many merge -# Root cause: covars has 3 duplicate rows per id after the refresh; the join -# fans 12,400 -> 12,933, re-weighting the ATT toward the duplicated units. +# Root cause: the refresh left duplicate covars rows for a subset of ids; the +# join fans those ids out, 12,400 -> 12,933 (+533 rows), re-weighting the ATT +# toward the duplicated units. # Phase 5 — minimal fix at the root (dedup the key), NOT a downstream row filter: covars <- covars[!duplicated(covars$id), ]