Skills
Custom commands the team uses every week. Install once, invoke with a slash.
The team skills are published at github.com/amatray/claude-skills-public. See Making It Yours for installation. This page is a reference list of what each one does.
Type the slash command in Claude Code to invoke a skill. Most skills also auto-trigger when their description matches what you are doing, but you can always invoke them explicitly.
Paper review and feedback
For working on your own papers and other people's papers, before submission and before passing them on.
/audit-paper: full audit of an academic paper (typos, grammar, prose quality, apparatus, structural coherence, AI-pattern detection). Module-by-module, with track-changes markup by default./simulate-referee: simulated peer review with an Editor and two Referees, calibrated to journal expectations. Useful for pre-submission feedback when you cannot get a real reading./lit-review-verify: citation accuracy checker. Reads a.texor.mdfile, extracts each claim-citation pair, and verifies whether the cited paper actually supports the claim.
Code and models
For empirical and theoretical work.
/audit-code: systematic audit of Stata do-files for macro definitions, paths, code consistency, and unused variables./solving-model: structured workflow for setting up, solving, and verifying an economic model with step-by-step derivations and cross-model mathematical checking.
LaTeX and documents
For the apparatus around papers, slides, and reading.
/compile-latex: compiles a LaTeX document using thexelatex→bibtex→xelatex→xelatexpipeline, fixing errors and re-compiling until it builds cleanly./overleaf: syncs a local Overleaf clone via Git. Pull, push, or full sync./pdf-chunker: reliable chunked extraction from PDF files. Mandatory for any task involving reading or analyzing a PDF (replaces Claude's default PDF reader, which silently truncates).
General-purpose helpers
For everything else: planning, prompting, and building your own skills.
/prompt: reformats a rough, dictated request into a structured prompt and then executes it. Useful with voice dictation./prompt-only: same as/promptbut produces the formatted prompt without executing. For pasting into another tool./review-plan: stress-tests a plan with structured expert critique, best-practice research, and an optional fresh-context subagent review. Use after writing any plan to catch blind spots./skill-creator: creates new skills, modifies existing ones, and runs evaluations to measure skill performance. Always use this rather than writing skill files by hand.
Beyond this list
Other economists publish their own skill libraries. Scott Cunningham's MixtapeTools is a good place to browse: skills for refereeing, splitting PDFs, building decks, and more. Install the ones that fit, ignore the rest.
To create your own skill, use /skill-creator rather than writing the markdown file by hand. See Making It Yours for the directory format and frontmatter requirements.