Claude Code Skills & Advanced Workflows

Building skills, the DAAF framework, continuous improvement, and compilation workflows.

Summaries

Building & Managing Skills

• Building Skills — Blattman's guide to creating Claude Code skills
• Skill Library — Curated collection of reusable skills
• Build Your Own — Hands-on guide to custom skill creation
• Skills: Claude Code for Economists (Markus Academy 162-6) — Goldsmith-Pinkham on what a skill is: a long prompt as markdown, plus the live paper-summary demo and the Superpowers pack
• Skills: Specifying How an Agent Should Think — Companion Substack: skills as agent-thinking specifications, with the global-vs-project tradeoff and supply-chain caveat

Frameworks & Workflows

• DAAF Framework — Data Analyst Augmentation Framework (5-10x acceleration)
• AI Research Feedback Skills — Claes Bäckman's academic research review skills
• Compilation & Review — Compilation and review workflows

Configuration & Improvement

• Continuous Improvement — Iterative refinement of AI-assisted workflows
• A Real CLAUDE.md — Annotated real-world CLAUDE.md example

Adoption & Experience

• Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 1) — Cunningham on the shift from vibe coding to agentic coding
• Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 2) — The theory of attention, danger zones, and linear isoquants
• Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 3) — Devil's advocate agents for adversarial review
• Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 4) — Boris Cherny origin story and latent knowledge
• Claude Code Changed How I Work (Part 5) — Marginal vs average user, risks, and safeguards
• Part 6: Video Explainer — Video walkthrough of project exploration and CLAUDE.md
• Part 16: Memory Foam Mattress Theory — Claude Code as endogenous software, no onramp

Decks & Presentations

• Part 7: Making Beautiful Decks — Rhetoric of decks, tacit knowledge, Beamer for future self
• Part 9: .bib Files and Article Retrieval — Automated bibliography and literature workflow
• Part 10: Lecture Decks — Dictation approach to deck creation, optimal MB/MC
• Part 33: Help Claude Help Us — Cautionary tale on domain expertise and verification
• Part 38: A Plug for Goldsmith-Pinkham's Series — Endorsement of Markus Academy Claude Code series

Skills & Tools

• Part 13: Skills and Split-PDF — Skills vs personas, /split-pdf for chunked PDF extraction
• Brownbag: Claude Code Skills — Spina's practical guide to building Claude Code skills
• Agentic AI Bootcamp — Session 2 — Aslim & Beam's applied demos: /code-review, /econ-audit (vs. 11 real referees), Lee bounds live, /skill-creator + lecture-builder
• Academic Research Skills for Claude Code (ARS) — Wu's 25-mode plugin suite: deep research, paper writing, peer review, 10-stage pipeline with integrity gates
• KatmerCode: Claude Code inside Obsidian — Canan's Obsidian plugin with inline diff editing and 7 academic skills (/peer-review, /cite-verify, /lit-search, …)

Presentations

• Claude Code for Academics — Spina's AI agent for empirical research (paper + slides)