Write Well
Prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, grounded in William Zinsser''s *On Writing Well* (30th Anniversary Edition). Checks for clutter, weak verbs, hollow qualifiers, clichés, inflated academic voice, poor leads and endings, pronoun and tense inconsistency, and unclear explanation. Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use wh…
Markdown Unwrap
Unwraps hard-wrapped markdown files so that each sentence ends with a newline instead of mid-sentence line breaks. Joins continuation lines within a paragraph into single lines, then re-breaks at sentence boundaries (period, question mark, exclamation point). Preserves blank lines, headings, fenced code blocks, block quotes, and list items. Use when asked to unwrap text, fix line breaks, reflow s…
Proofread
Expert copy editor for Quarto (.qmd) files. Checks grammar, spelling, punctuation, and academic writing quality. Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use when asked to proofread, check grammar, fix typos, or review prose in a .qmd document. For APSA style rules (numbers, citations, capitalization, abbreviations, neutral language), u…
Assess Outline
Assesses a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai''s empirical research guide. Evaluates the abstract and section outline for: research question clarity, stated contributions, hypotheses and testable implications, data description, planned results and inferential approach, and robustness checks. Detects causal papers from the abstract and conditionally ass…
Latex To Typst
Translates LaTeX documents (.tex) to Typst (.typ), focusing on article-class documents. Use when asked to convert, port, migrate, or translate LaTeX to Typst. Covers document structure, text formatting, page layout, math equations and symbols, figures, tables, TikZ-to-CeTZ diagrams, bibliography, cross-references, footnotes, and code blocks. Includes comprehensive symbol mapping tables.
Quarto Clean
Cleans a Quarto (.qmd) file by replacing LaTeX holdovers with proper Quarto/Pandoc syntax so the document renders correctly to HTML, PDF (Typst/LaTeX), and Word. Fixes citations (\citep → [@key]), cross-references (\ref → @label), figures (\includegraphics → markdown), tables, text formatting (\textbf → **bold**), inline math (\( \) → $ $), hyperlinks (\href → [text](url)), footnotes (\footnote →…
Pseudo Merge
Takes a proofread or apsa-style report file (or any markdown file using **Original:** / **Recommended:** syntax) and rewrites the original source file with git merge conflict markers so the user can accept or reject each suggested edit using VS Code or Positron''s built-in merge conflict UI. Branch names are "original" and "claude-edits". Use when asked to apply edits, insert conflict markers, or…
Redistricting Analysis
Redistricting analysis in R using the redistverse ecosystem. Use whenever the user is working with redist, redistmetrics, ggredist, geomander, adj, alarmdata, PL94171, censable, easycensus, tinytiger, baf, rict, or redistio. Covers the complete pipeline: Census and spatial data loading, adjacency graph construction, SMC/MCMC simulation, constraints (population balance, county splits, VRA complian…
Apsa Style
APSA style checker for Quarto (.qmd) files. Checks numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, italics, in-text citations, titles of works, neutral and unbiased language, and APSA-specific terminology against the APSA Style Manual for Political Science (2018, updated 2023). Produces a structured markdown report organized by document section — never modifies the source file. Use when asked to check AP…
Paper Summary
Writes expert academic paper summaries for social science research, particularly political science and applied statistics. Use when asked to summarize, review, or create a reading summary of an academic paper, PDF, or research article. Accepts a file (PDF or text format) or a directory of papers. Produces a structured markdown summary — approximately 400–600 words — covering primary contributions…
Latex To Quarto
Converts LaTeX article-class .tex documents to Quarto .qmd format for multi-format publishing (HTML, PDF, Word). Use when asked to convert, port, migrate, or translate a .tex LaTeX file to Quarto; when porting an academic paper or manuscript from LaTeX to Quarto; when a .tex document needs to render to HTML, Word, or Typst PDF. Covers preamble → YAML front matter, section headings, text formattin…