lucabrag/clo-author-template
Claude Code workflow template for academic research papers. 18 agents, 10 skills, simulated peer review, R&R cycle, 30+ journal profiles.
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A bench of specialised subagents. The main agent mostly delegates.
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# review before running: this installs third-party code
$ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.claude ./rig-clo-author-template # inspect, then merge into .claude/ MCP servers are added to Claude Code at local scope; env vars are shown as YOUR_… placeholders — we never store values. Files are fetched with degit into a separate folder so you can review before merging.
$ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/analyze .claude/skills/analyze $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/discover .claude/skills/discover $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/edit .claude/skills/edit $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/new-project .claude/skills/new-project $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/review .claude/skills/review $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/revise .claude/skills/revise $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/strategize .claude/skills/strategize $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/submit .claude/skills/submit $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/talk .claude/skills/talk $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/tools .claude/skills/tools $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.agents/skills/write .claude/skills/write $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.claude/skills/careful .claude/skills/careful $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.claude/skills/checkpoint .claude/skills/checkpoint $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.claude/skills/dashboard .claude/skills/dashboard $ npx degit lucabrag/clo-author-template/.claude/skills/freeze .claude/skills/freeze
$ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/coder-critic.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/coder-critic.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/coder.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/coder.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/data-engineer.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/data-engineer.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/domain-referee.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/domain-referee.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/editor.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/editor.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/explorer-critic.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/explorer-critic.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/explorer.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/explorer.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/guide-writer.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/guide-writer.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/librarian-critic.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/librarian-critic.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/librarian.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/librarian.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/methods-referee.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/methods-referee.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/orchestrator.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/orchestrator.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/prose-editor.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/prose-editor.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/storyteller-critic.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/storyteller-critic.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/storyteller.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/storyteller.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/strategist-critic.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/strategist-critic.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/strategist.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/strategist.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/theorist-critic.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/theorist-critic.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/theorist.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/theorist.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/verifier.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/verifier.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/writer-critic.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/writer-critic.md $ curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/agents/writer.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucabrag/clo-author-template/main/.claude/agents/writer.md
Merge into .claude/settings.json (project) or ~/.claude/settings.json (user). Hook commands reference scripts in the source repo — copy those too.
{
"hooks": {
"PreToolUse": [
{
"matcher": "Edit|Write",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/protect-files.sh"
}
]
},
{
"matcher": "Edit|Write|Bash",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "python3 \"$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"/.claude/hooks/session-guard.py"
}
]
}
]
}
} Skills (15)
analyzediscovereditnew-projectreviewrevisestrategizesubmittalktoolswritecarefulcheckpointdashboardfreeze
Subagents (22)
| coder-critic model: inherit | Code critic that reviews R/Python/Julia scripts for strategic alignment, code quality, numerical discipline, and reproducibility. Paper-type aware. Runs 16 check categories. Paired critic for the Code |
| coder model: inherit | Implements empirical strategies in code. Paper-type aware -- reduced-form estimation, structural models, Monte Carlo simulations, and descriptive analysis. Enforces engineering discipline adapted from |
| data-engineer model: inherit | Data cleaning, wrangling, and visualization specialist. Creates cleaning scripts, publication-quality figures, and data documentation. Paired with coder-critic for review. |
| domain-referee model: inherit | Specialized blind peer reviewer focused on subject expertise. Evaluates contributions, literature positioning, substantive arguments, and external validity. Calibrated to the field via .claude/referen |
| editor model: inherit | Journal editor who desk-reviews papers and synthesizes referee reports into independent editorial decisions. Selects referee dispositions based on journal culture. Exercises judgment -- not score aver |
| explorer-critic model: inherit | Data quality critic. Reviews the Explorer's data assessment for measurement validity, sample selection, external validity, and identification compatibility. Scores data sources against a deduction rub |
| explorer model: inherit | Data finder and evaluator. Searches for public, administrative, and survey datasets relevant to a research question. Evaluates coverage, access, variables, and fit. Produces ranked data source list wi |
| guide-writer model: inherit | Writes documentation and guide pages in a pedagogical, tutorial style inspired by Thariq Shihipar's technical writing. Leads with claims, shows iterations, uses progressive disclosure. For guide site |
| librarian-critic model: inherit | Literature quality critic. Reviews the Librarian's annotated bibliography for coverage gaps, journal quality, scope calibration, recency, and categorization quality. Paired critic for the Librarian. |
| librarian model: inherit | Literature collector and organizer. Searches top-5 generals, NBER, field journals, SSRN/RePEc for related papers. Produces annotated bibliography, BibTeX entries, frontier map, and positioning recomme |
| methods-referee model: inherit | Specialized blind peer reviewer focused on empirical methods. Paper-type aware — evaluates reduced-form identification, structural estimation, theory+empirics testing, and descriptive measurement. Dis |
| orchestrator model: inherit | Manages phase transitions, agent dispatch, escalation routing, rule enforcement, referee synthesis, and journal selection across the research pipeline. Tracks the dependency graph, dispatches worker-c |
| prose-editor model: inherit | Style editor for economics papers in Luca Braghieri's voice. Enforces RAP, top-down writing, economics intro structure, and classic-style voice. Supports suggest/direct modes, long-target triage, and |
| storyteller-critic model: inherit | Talk critic. Reviews Beamer and Quarto RevealJS presentations for narrative flow, visual quality, content fidelity, format scope, and compilation. Paper-type aware. Paired critic for the Storyteller. |
| storyteller model: inherit | Creates presentations from the paper in 4 formats (job market, seminar, short, lightning) and 2 output types (Beamer PDF, Quarto RevealJS). Paper-type aware — adapts narrative arc to reduced-form, str |
| strategist-critic model: inherit | Empirical strategy critic and gatekeeper. Reviews strategy memos and papers through 4 sequential phases. Paper-type aware -- checks reduced-form designs (DiD, IV, RDD, SC, Event Study), structural est |
| strategist model: inherit | Designs empirical strategies across paper types -- reduced-form causal inference, structural estimation, theory+empirics, and descriptive/measurement. Produces strategy memos with design-specific deta |
| theorist-critic model: inherit | Theory critic. Reviews formal theoretical content -- assumptions, definitions, lemmas, theorems, proofs -- for logical validity, minimality of conditions, measurability/integrability care, notation co |
| theorist model: inherit | Theoretical econometrician / mathematical statistician. Drafts assumptions, definitions, lemmas, propositions, theorems, and formal proofs. Handles identification results, asymptotic theory, influence |
| verifier model: inherit | Infrastructure inspector with two modes. Standard mode checks compilation, execution, file integrity, and output freshness between phase transitions. Submission mode adds full AEA replication package |
| writer-critic model: inherit | Manuscript critic that reviews paper drafts for structure, claims-evidence alignment, identification fidelity, writing quality, LaTeX format, compilation, voice fidelity, and claim-source traceability |
| writer model: inherit | Drafts paper sections using paragraph-level argument moves. Each paragraph has one job — motivation, result, mechanism, qualification. Cleanup pass strips AI patterns after drafting. Use when drafting |
Hooks (5)
| event | matcher | runs |
|---|---|---|
| PreToolUse | Edit|Write | "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/protect-files.sh |
| PreToolUse | Edit|Write|Bash | python3 "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/session-guard.py |
| PreCompact | * | python3 "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/pre-compact.py |
| SessionStart | compact|resume | python3 "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/post-compact-restore.py |
| PostToolUse | Edit|Write | "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/post-edit-lint.sh |
Permissions
deny (0)
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ask (0)
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allow (48)
Bash(git status *)
Bash(git diff *)
Bash(git log *)
Bash(git branch *)
Bash(git add *)
Bash(git commit *)
Bash(git push *)
Bash(git pull *)
Bash(git fetch *)
Bash(git checkout *)
Bash(git merge *)
Bash(git stash *)
Bash(gh pr *)
Bash(gh run *)
Bash(gh api *)
Bash(gh pr list *)
Bash(gh pr view *)
Bash(gh pr merge *)
Bash(gh pr create *)
Bash(gh repo *)
Bash(xelatex *)
Bash(TEXINPUTS=*)
Bash(BIBINPUTS=*)
Bash(latexmk *)
Bash(bibtex *)
Bash(biber *)
Bash(pdfinfo *)
Bash(pdf2svg *)
Bash(quarto render *)
Bash(Rscript *)
Bash(python3 *)
Bash(chmod *)
Bash(open *)
Bash(ls *)
Bash(wc *)
Bash(sort *)
Bash(for *)
Bash(gs *)
Bash(pdftk *)
Bash(mkdir *)
Bash(do if:*)
Bash(then echo:*)
Bash(fi)
Bash(find ~/Desktop -iname *ABDC* -o -iname *abdc*)
Edit(/.claude/skills/review/**)
Bash(mkdir -p .claude/references)
Bash(mv .claude/rules/journal-profiles.md .claude/references/journal-profiles.md)
Bash(echo "meta-governance.md: 252 -> 20 lines \(saved 232\)")
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