/theory-engine
Activate when the user needs to select a theoretical lens, formulate a research gap, derive hypotheses or design principles, or write a contribution statement. Provides concrete theory-to-paper templates, not abstract advice.
$ npx -y skills add TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine --skill theory-engine --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/theory-engine
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Activate when the user needs to select a theoretical lens, formulate a research gap, derive hypotheses or design principles, or write a contribution statement. Provides concrete theory-to-paper templates, not abstract advice.
A Claude Code plugin that autonomously writes academic papers — from literature search to production-ready LaTeX/PDF. Scope note.
Other skills on open-academic-paper-machine.
- /audit-engine
Activate when the user wants to audit a paper's empirical or technical claims against a linked code repository — checking whether experiments, datasets, models, metrics, and hyperparameters described in the paper actually exist and match the code. Produces a structured audit
Open skill - /coauthor-engine
Activate when the user needs to manage multi-author collaboration on a paper. Tracks author contributions using the CRediT taxonomy, manages responsibility assignments, documents the human-AI division of labor, and produces an author contribution statement ready for submission.
Open skill - /figure-engine
Activate when the user needs to generate, refine, or evaluate academic figures, diagrams, or statistical plots. Uses PaperBanana to transform text descriptions or data files into publication-quality illustrations via direct Python API call. Fallback: matplotlib/seaborn.
Open skill - /idea-engine
Activate when the user needs to evaluate whether a research idea is worth pursuing, brainstorm new research directions, or stress-test a paper concept before committing. This is Phase 0 of the paper machine — the gate that decides whether the full 8-phase pipeline should run.
Open skill - /latex-engine
Activate when the user wants to export a completed paper draft to production-ready LaTeX (.tex) and PDF. Converts draft.md + references.bib + figures/ into a complete arxiv-style LaTeX project with properly resolved \citep/\citet citations, booktabs tables, figure environments,
Open skill - /literature-engine
ALWAYS activate when the user needs to find, organize, review, or synthesize academic literature. Uses academic APIs (Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef, arXiv) via scripts/academic_search.py. Handles search strategy, snowballing, screening, concept matrices, narrative
Open skill