John Barrios · Yale School of Management Claude Code for Accounting Research

Skills Catalog

Agent skills for accounting research workflows — 41 skills, each with a download and a one-line install. Use the search box to filter, or the category list to browse by area. Click a card for the full skill documentation and its download.

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Install quick-start

# Cursor
cp -r <skill-folder> ~/.cursor/skills/

# Claude Code
cp -r <skill-folder> ~/.claude/skills/

Or download a .zip from any skill page and extract into the same location.

Academic Paper Writer
Writing and Review

Draft economics papers with proper structure and academic style
Api Data Fetcher
Research Tools

Fetch economic data from FRED, World Bank, and other APIs
Beamer Presentation
Writing and Review

Create academic presentations in Beamer with professional themes
Citation Management
Research Tools

Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly…
Dask
Data and Visualization

Distributed computing for larger-than-RAM pandas/NumPy workflows. Use when you need to scale existing pandas/NumPy code beyond memory or across clusters. Best for parallel…
Datacommons Client
Research Tools

Work with Data Commons, a platform providing programmatic access to public statistical data from global sources. Use this skill when working with demographic data, economic…
Econ Humanizer
Writing and Review

Remove AI writing patterns from academic economics, finance, and accounting prose. Enforces a clear, direct writing style inspired by John Cochrane: plain language, short…
Econ Humanizer Plus
Writing and Review

Supplements the econ-humanizer skill with a more exhaustive and specific rule set for eliminating AI-generated writing patterns in economics, finance, and accounting prose.…
Econ Lit Search
Research Tools

Search a curated corpus of ~51k economics papers (NBER working papers, JEL-coded journals) with full-text search, abstract retrieval, body-passage snippets, and citation…
Econ Visualization
Data and Visualization

Create publication-quality charts and graphs for economics papers.
Econ Writing Plus
Writing and Review

Supplements economic-writing, econ-humanizer, academic-paper-writer, research-grants, and referee-report with advanced econ-specific guidance — (1)…
Exploratory Data Analysis
Research Tools

Perform comprehensive exploratory data analysis on scientific data files across 200+ file formats. This skill should be used when analyzing any scientific data file to…
Geopandas
Data and Visualization

Python library for working with geospatial vector data including shapefiles, GeoJSON, and GeoPackage files. Use when working with geographic data for spatial analysis…
Hypothesis Generation
Writing and Review

Structured hypothesis formulation from observations. Use when you have experimental observations or data and need to formulate testable hypotheses with predictions, propose…
Latex Econ Model
Writing and Review

Write and typeset economic models in LaTeX with proper notation
Latex Posters
Writing and Review

Create professional research posters in LaTeX using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter. Support for conference presentations, academic posters, and scientific…
Latex Tables
Writing and Review

Generate publication-ready regression tables in LaTeX.
Lit Review Assistant
Research Tools

Search, summarize, and synthesize economics literature
Literature Review
Research Tools

Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when…
Matplotlib
Data and Visualization

Low-level plotting library for full customization. Use when you need fine-grained control over every plot element, creating novel plot types, or integrating with specific…
Openalex Api
Research Tools

Access and analyze OpenAlex scholarly metadata through the REST API, including works, authors, institutions, sources, concepts, topics, funders, and publishers. Use when…
Paper 2 Acfin Web
Research Tools

Convert accounting and finance papers into dissemination assets — interactive project websites, seminar videos, and conference posters. Use when turning a JAR/JAE/TAR…
Peer Review
Writing and Review

Structured manuscript/grant review with checklist-based evaluation. Use when writing formal peer reviews with specific criteria methodology assessment, statistical validity…
Plotly
Data and Visualization

Interactive visualization library. Use when you need hover info, zoom, pan, or web-embeddable charts. Best for dashboards, exploratory analysis, and presentations. For…
Polars
Data and Visualization

Fast in-memory DataFrame library for datasets that fit in RAM. Use when pandas is too slow but data still fits in memory. Lazy evaluation, parallel execution, Apache Arrow…
Pymc Bayesian Modeling
Data and Visualization

Bayesian modeling with PyMC. Build hierarchical models, MCMC (NUTS), variational inference, LOO/WAIC comparison, posterior checks, for probabilistic programming and…
Python Panel Data
Econometrics

Panel data analysis with Python using linearmodels and pandas.
R Econometrics
Econometrics

Run IV, DiD, and RDD analyses in R with proper diagnostics
Research Ideation
Research Tools

Generate research questions from economic phenomena
Research Lookup
Research Tools

Look up current research information using Perplexity Sonar Pro Search or Sonar Reasoning Pro models through OpenRouter. Automatically selects the best model based on query…
Scholar Evaluation
Writing and Review

Systematically evaluate scholarly work using the ScholarEval framework, providing structured assessment across research quality dimensions including problem formulation…
Scientific Critical Thinking
Writing and Review

Evaluate scientific claims and evidence quality. Use for assessing experimental design validity, identifying biases and confounders, applying evidence grading frameworks…
Scikit Learn
Data and Visualization

Machine learning in Python with scikit-learn. Use when working with supervised learning (classification, regression), unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality…
Seaborn
Data and Visualization

Statistical visualization with pandas integration. Use for quick exploration of distributions, relationships, and categorical comparisons with attractive defaults. Best for…
Stata Data Cleaning
Econometrics

Clean and transform messy data in Stata with reproducible workflows
Stata Regression
Econometrics

Run regression analyses in Stata with publication-ready output tables.
Statistical Analysis
Data and Visualization

Guided statistical analysis with test selection and reporting. Use when you need help choosing appropriate tests for your data, assumption checking, power analysis, and…
Statsmodels
Data and Visualization

Statistical models library for Python. Use when you need specific model classes (OLS, GLM, mixed models, ARIMA) with detailed diagnostics, residuals, and inference. Best for…
Venue Templates
Writing and Review

Access comprehensive LaTeX templates, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines for major scientific publication venues (Nature, Science, PLOS, IEEE, ACM), academic…
Web Scrape
Research Tools
Wrds
Econometrics

This skill should be used when the user asks to “query WRDS”, “access Compustat”, “get CRSP data”, “pull Form 4 insider data”, “query ISS compensation”, “download SEC EDGAR…
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Skills are from the Barrios Skills collection, MIT licensed (full license).