ai-asset-pricing: Skill for Claude Code

Setup Paper

Scaffold a new academic paper from the repo's LaTeX boilerplate template. The template includes 6 table exemplars, 1 figure, and 2 equation styles — all tagged [REMOVE] — so Claude has maximum context on formatting conventions.

Examples

• /setup-paper "My Paper Title" — basic scaffold with placeholder authors
• /setup-paper "My Paper Title" --authors "John Smith (MIT), Jane Doe (LSE)" — with authors
• /setup-paper "My Paper Title" --authors "John Smith (MIT)" --topic "asset pricing anomalies" — with topic-aware filler

Workflow

Phase 1: Parse Arguments

Extract from $ARGUMENTS:

• Title (required): first quoted string or all text before --
• --authors (optional): comma-separated "Name (Affiliation)" pairs
• --topic (optional): one-line description for smarter filler generation

If title is missing, use AskUserQuestion to prompt.

Phase 2: Resolve Target Directory

Determine where to write main.tex and references.bib:

1. If cwd is inside projects/<name>/ (any depth), target = projects/<name>/latex/
2. If cwd already ends with /latex/, target = cwd
3. Otherwise, ask the user which project to target or whether to write to cwd

Create the target directory if it does not exist.

Phase 3: Locate Boilerplate

Find the repo root by walking up from cwd looking for boilerplate/template_main.tex. The boilerplate lives at:

<repo_root>/boilerplate/template_main.tex
<repo_root>/boilerplate/template_references.bib

If the boilerplate files are not found, stop and tell the user.

Phase 4: Copy and Transform

1. Read boilerplate/template_main.tex
2. Read boilerplate/template_references.bib
3. Write both to the target directory as main.tex and references.bib
4. Update the \bibliography{} line: replace template_references with references

Phase 5: Replace Placeholders

Find and replace these [REMOVE] placeholders in main.tex:

Find	Replace with
[REMOVE] Your Paper Title Here	User's title
[REMOVE] First Author\thanks{...} block	Generated from --authors (see below)
[REMOVE] Second Author\thanks{...} block	Remove if only one author, or replace
[REMOVE] We gratefully acknowledge...	[REMOVE] Acknowledgments go here. (keep tag)
[REMOVE] This paper studies... (abstract)	Topic-aware filler if --topic, else keep
[REMOVE] Keyword One; ...	[REMOVE] Keyword One; Keyword Two; Keyword Three. (keep tag)
[REMOVE] G12; C12.	[REMOVE] G12; C12. (keep tag)