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matthewdigiuseppe/MStack

Plugin Claude Code

MStack — a Claude Code plugin for academic research. Opinionated role-based slash commands that walk a paper from idea to archive. Inspired by gstack.

matthewdigiuseppe/MStack

Plugin Claude Code

A Claude Code plugin for academic research — an opinionated set of role-based slash commands that walk a paper from idea to archive. Inspired by gstack.

matthewdigiuseppe/MStack

Hook

Runs before the agent uses a tool for Write, Edit, MultiEdit, NotebookEdit and Bash tool calls, executing mstack-guard.py via python3. From matthewdigiuseppe/MStack.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Generates 4-6 abstract variants with different positioning bets (puzzle-, policy-, theory-, finding-, anomaly-first), tags each with audience and risk, and recommends one for the target journal. Use when a full draft exists and the user wants the abstract written, improved, or reframed.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Runs the primary specification and pre-specified secondaries in code/02-analyze.R and renders publication tables via modelsummary in code/04-tables.R. Use when the user asks to run the models, estimate the main results, or produce regression tables; the preregistration, if present, is the contract.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Assembles the replication package — inventory, licenses, renv lockfile, replication README, clean-room rebuild that regenerates every table and figure from raw data — and stages the OSF/Dataverse upload. Use at acceptance or whenever the user asks for a replication or reproducibility package.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Toggles warn-before-destructive mode for this paper — an MStack hook then requires confirmation before rm, git reset, force-push, or overwriting manuscript/output files. Use near deadlines or before autonomous work on a submission-ready paper; run with argument off to disable.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Simulated coauthor read of the full draft — biggest hole, biggest distraction, biggest opportunity, one structural suggestion, a few line edits — as a skeptical methodologist, big-picture theorist, or junior reader. Use on a complete draft before the mock referee, or when the user wants tough feedback on the paper.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Auto-generates data/codebook.md from the analytic dataset — per-variable stats plus flags for missingness, near-constants, duplicates, and implausible values. Use after cleaning stabilizes, when the user asks to document variables, or before analysis.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Drafts the three-paragraph submission cover letter — fit to this journal, contribution, declarations — in 400 words or fewer. Use after a target journal is chosen, when the user asks for a cover letter or submission materials.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Downloads and documents every raw data source with vintage, license, SHA-256 manifest, and a PROVENANCE.md log; restricted data gets a stub plus re-acquire script. Use at the start of empirical work, whenever the user pulls a dataset (V-Dem, WDI, COW, survey exports), or before any cleaning — /mstack:data-clean…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Writes the reproducible raw-to-clean pipeline in code/01-clean.R — every join, drop, and recode logged with row-count checks — producing data/clean/analytic.rds. Use when the user needs to clean, merge, or recode data, build the analytic dataset, or fix a data issue (raw files are never edited).

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Chooses the research design (survey experiment, field experiment, RDD/IV/DiD, observational, qualitative) by scoring options on identification, validity, power, and cost — with an explicit plan B. Use after identification review, or when the user asks which design or method fits their question.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Drafts one manuscript section (intro, theory, data, methods, results, discussion, abstract) to paper/sections/, in the user's configured writing voice, with numbers checked against output/ and no invented citations. Use when the user asks to write or revise any part of the paper.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Locks writes to a single directory — an MStack hook denies edits anywhere else in the paper folder until /mstack:unfreeze. Use during R&R to protect submission/, or to fence Claude into one part of the project.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Maximum-safety mode — /mstack:careful plus /mstack:freeze in one toggle, enforced by the MStack hook.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Turns theory into operationalized, falsifiable hypotheses — statement, direction, magnitude, X/Y operationalization, and the pattern that would falsify each — with exactly one marked primary. Use before any data collection or analysis, before preregistration, or whenever the user drafts or revises hypotheses.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Generates 4-6 genuinely different angles on the same data or topic — each with claim, contribution, identification sketch, cost, and risk — then ranks them. Use when the user has data or a topic but no committed question, wants alternatives before investing, or a red-light verdict sent them back to ideation.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Methodologist prosecution of the identification strategy — states the identifying assumption, names concrete threats (selection, confounding, reverse causality, SUTVA, clustering), demands falsification tests, and issues a pass/fail verdict. Use before locking a design, before submission, or whenever the user asks…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Scores 6-8 candidate journals on impact, fit, method receptivity, word limits, turnaround, and desk-reject risk, then sets a reach/realistic/backup tier in config. Use when the user asks where to submit or which journal fits the paper.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Appends a paper-specific fact — variable names, conventions, design decisions, formatting preferences — to .mstack/learnings.jsonl so every later skill applies it. Use whenever the user states a convention Claude should remember, or repeats a correction twice.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Systematic literature scan that finds the 3-5 must-engage papers, synthesizes the consensus and where it cracks, states the gap, and stages BibTeX into paper/refs.bib. Use after a research question is locked, when the user asks what to cite or who has written on a topic, or before drafting the intro or theory.

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Logs LLM-as-research-instrument use to a running ledger and compiles the GUIDE-LLM reporting checklist (Feuerriegel et al. 2026, Nature Human Behaviour) for your methods/SI. Use whenever an LLM is integral to the research design — text annotation/classification, simulated participants or in-silico experiments…

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Skill Claude CodeCodex

Scaffolds a new MStack paper folder (paper/, data/, code/, output/, .mstack/ memory) from the plugin template, LaTeX or Quarto. Use when the user wants to start a new paper, project, or study — e.g. "set up a new paper on X" — or asks to run mstack-init.