Claude Code: AI Agent Workflow Collection

Enforce the replication-protocol.md rule by cross-checking numeric claims in a manuscript against the actual R / Stata / Python outputs. Report PASS/FAIL per claim against tolerance thresholds. Use before submission and before releasing a replication package.

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.

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.

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).

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", "attgt", "csdid", "did with multiple periods", or points at panel data with a treatment-timing variable. NEVER reimplements an estimator.

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".

Scaffold a new TikZ diagram from the snippet gallery with prevention rules pre-applied (explicit node dimensions, coordinate map, directional edge labels). Compiles standalone, invokes tikz-reviewer with citations from tikz-measurement.md, and loops on revisions until APPROVED.

Diagnose why Claude Code is (or isn't) prompting for permission. By default reads only repo-local layers (CLI project, CLI project-local, VSCode workspace). Host-global layers (CLI user ~/.claude/, VSCode user settings) are read ONLY when the user explicitly confirms — those files may contain unrelated paths or secrets. Use when user says "why is it asking me to approve?", "permission check", "why am I getting prompts?", "bypass isn't working", "check my permissions". Read-only diagnostic.

Draft a structured preregistration document (OSF, AsPredicted, or AEA RCT Registry style) from a research spec or free-form study description. Output is a Markdown file with hypotheses, design, sampling plan, analysis plan, exclusions, and inference criteria — annotated with MUST / SHOULD / MAY clarity flags. Use when user says "preregister", "draft a preregistration", "OSF preregistration", "AsPredicted", "AEA RCT registry", "PAP", "preanalysis plan", or before launching an experiment / data collection / analysis on data the analyst has not yet seen. NOT a registry submission tool — produces a document the user uploads to OSF / AsPredicted / AEA themselves.

Review candidate [LEARN] entries in .claude/state/personal-memory.md (gitignored) and run them through a five-critic council in parallel: generality, staleness, redundancy, evidence, format. Majority vote (3+ of 5) promotes the entry to MEMORY.md. Use when user says "promote memory", "review my learnings", "what should graduate to MEMORY.md", "five-critic council", or as monthly memory maintenance.

Run the full R package release gate — regenerate docs, run the test suite, run R CMD check --as-cran, and triage every ERROR / WARNING / NOTE against CRAN policy before a release or submission. Use when the user says "check my R package", "R CMD check", "is this package CRAN-ready", "run devtools::check", "prepare for CRAN submission", or points at a directory containing a DESCRIPTION file. Produces a check report + CRAN-submission checklist in qualityreports/.

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.

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.

Generate a structured response-to-referees document from a referee report and the revised manuscript. Maps each referee comment to the specific revision, classifies coverage (addressed / partially / deferred / disagreement), and drafts polite but firm responses. Use during the R&R (revise-and-resubmit) stage of paper revision.

Use claude-code-my-workflow when a research task needs a Claude Code workflow for papers, slides, data analysis, or replication packages with specialist-agent review and verification gates.

Mechanize Pattern 15 — the seven-pass adversarial review protocol for academic manuscripts. Spawns 7 forked subagents in parallel (abstract, intro, methods, results, robustness, prose, citations), then synthesizes a prioritized revision checklist. Use for submission-ready or R&R-stage papers where single-pass review isn't enough.

Scaffold and run a reproducible Monte Carlo simulation study in R — parameterized DGP, an estimator grid, a seeded replication loop, and a summary of bias, RMSE, empirical SE, coverage, size/power with Monte Carlo standard errors. Use when the user says "run a Monte Carlo simulation", "simulation study", "check the bias/coverage of an estimator", "compare estimators in simulation", "size and power simulation", "Monte Carlo experiment", or wants to demonstrate an estimator's finite-sample properties. Produces a numbered R script in scripts/R/ and saves per-replication raw results + a summary table to scripts/R/outputs/.

End-to-end Stata replication pipeline — scaffolds numbered .do files in scripts/stata/, executes them via the stata-mcp MCP server, captures logs and outputs to scripts/stata/outputs/, and produces publication-ready tables (esttab) and figures (graph export). Mirrors /data-analysis for R-first projects. Use when user says "stata replication", "set up Stata pipeline", "scaffold the .do files", "run Stata analysis", "AEA replication package in Stata", or when a project's analysis language is Stata not R.

Generate the submission-time disclosure block for a manuscript — the AI-use disclosure statement matched to the target journal's policy, CRediT author-contribution roles, conflict-of-interest statement, and data-availability statement. Use when the user says "AI disclosure", "disclosure statement", "do I need to disclose Claude", "CRediT roles", "conflict of interest statement", "data availability statement", or is preparing a submission package. NOT statistical-disclosure screening of restricted-data outputs — that is /disclosure-check.

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".

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.