ships .claude CLAUDE.md and nothing for other agents.
In its own words
README.mdhugosantanna/clo-author
A Claude Code scaffold for empirical economics research. Literature review to journal submission, with 18 agents that review each other's work.
Guide: hugosantanna.github.io/clo-author
To Get Started
Claude reads the config, plans the approach, you approve, it runs. Works in the terminal, VS Code extension, or JetBrains.
Setup
Fill in CLAUDE.md — replace [BRACKETED PLACEHOLDERS] with your project details
Fill in .claude/references/domain-profile.md — your field, journals, data, methods. Or run /discover interview to do it interactively.
Configure your language — R is the default. Python and Julia also supported.
Other fields: Economics by default. Adapts to labor, public, health, development, trade, IO, and other applied fields by customizing the domain profile and journal profiles.
Commands
13 skills, each with modes:
Agents
18 agents in worker-critic pairs. Critics can't edit files. Creators can't score themselves. If they disagree after 3 rounds, it escalates.
Peer Review
/review --peer [journal] simulates a full journal submission:
This one grew
out of another entry. It began as a copy of pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow, and most
of its files are now different from the original, so it is listed in its own right rather than
behind its source.
What this copy built:+data +paper
— top-level directories this copy added on top of the original.
What came from it 22
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