christopherkenny

An APSA style checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, this tool verifies numbers, capitalization, citations, and terminology against the APSA Style Manual. It generates a structured markdown report without modifying the original file.

This skill generates expert academic paper summaries for social science research, focusing on political science and applied statistics. It accepts files or directories of papers and produces structured markdown summaries (400-600 words) highlighting primary contributions.

Cleans a Quarto (.qmd) file by replacing LaTeX holdovers with proper Quarto/Pandoc syntax. This ensures the document renders correctly to HTML, PDF (Typst/LaTeX), and Word, fixing issues like citations, cross-references, and text formatting.

This skill assesses a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide. It evaluates the abstract and section outline for clarity of research questions, contributions, hypotheses, data, planned results, inferential approach, and robustness checks, also detecting causal papers from the abstract.

Unwraps hard-wrapped markdown files, ensuring each sentence ends with a newline instead of mid-sentence breaks. It joins lines within paragraphs and re-breaks them at sentence boundaries, preserving blank lines, headings, and code blocks.

Performs redistricting analysis in R using the redistverse ecosystem, covering the complete pipeline from data loading and graph construction to SMC/MCMC simulation and constraint application. Use with packages like redist, redistmetrics, and others in the ecosystem.

Translates LaTeX (.tex) documents to Typst (.typ), focusing on article-class documents. It covers document structure, formatting, layout, math, figures, tables, diagrams, bibliography, cross-references, footnotes, code blocks, and includes comprehensive symbol mapping tables.

Rewrites a source file with git merge conflict markers based on a proofread or APSA-style report, allowing users to accept or reject suggested edits via VS Code or Positron's merge conflict UI. It uses 'original' and 'claude-edits' as branch names.

Converts LaTeX article-class .tex documents to Quarto .qmd format for multi-format publishing (HTML, PDF, Word). Use to convert, port, or migrate .tex LaTeX files to Quarto, especially for academic papers or manuscripts, or when a .tex document needs to render to HTML, Word, or Typst PDF, covering preamble to YAML front matter, section headings, and text formatting.

A prose quality checker for Quarto (.qmd) files, based on William Zinsser's *On Writing Well*. It identifies issues like clutter, weak verbs, and inconsistencies, producing a structured markdown report without modifying the source file.

Expert copy editor for Quarto (.qmd) files, checking grammar, spelling, punctuation, and academic writing quality. It produces a structured markdown report, organized by document section, without modifying the source file, and is used for proofreading, grammar checks, typo fixes, or prose review.