cc-research-assistant

Patrick Crawford's personal fork of hugosantanna/clo-author — a Claude Code scaffold for empirical economics research.

• Quarto paper format (not LaTeX directly)
• George Mason University / Department of Economics
• Economic history & political economy projects
• R + Python analysis pipeline
• By-script output organization

To start a new project

Then fill in the [BRACKETED PLACEHOLDERS] in CLAUDE.md and _quarto.yml, and tell Claude:

Upstream

To pull template updates from Hugo's original:

Running the Pipeline: Full vs. Step-by-Step

Full run

The only skill that's always orchestrated — it dispatches every phase below automatically, worker paired with critic, and won't advance a phase whose gate isn't met. Use this when you're starting from a bare idea and want Claude driving.

Step-by-step

Every phase can also be invoked directly, skipping ahead or re-entering mid-pipeline, as long as its REQUIRES (declared in .claude/rules/permissions.md) is already satisfied. This is the normal mode once a project is underway — most sessions touch one phase, not the whole pipeline.

Rows sharing an order number (1, or 2) are the same PARALLEL_GROUP in permissions.md — dispatchable concurrently once their shared prerequisite is met.