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Phd Skills — Design skill for Claude Code

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PhD Research Skills for Claude Code: paper reproduction, experiment design, paper review, result comparison and more.

How to install Phd Skills

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open fcakyon/phd-skills and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Phd Skills does

PhD Research Skills for Claude Code: paper reproduction, experiment design, paper review, result comparison and more.

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README

phd-skills

Catch AI mistakes before they cost weeks of compute. Reproduce papers from arxiv. Debug runs evidence-first. Compare experiments at the right epoch. Launch with discipline.

Built by [Fatih Cagatay Akyon](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RHGyDE0AAAAJ) (1500+ citations, 7 patents) after 300+ Claude Code sessions, tens of critical AI mistakes caught the hard way, and thousands of hours of PhD research. Every guardrail in this plugin traces to a real mistake.

![Claude Code Plugin](https://img.shields.io/badge/Claude_Code-Plugin-blue) ![MIT License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-green) ![Zero Dependencies](https://img.shields.io/badge/Dependencies-Zero-brightgreen) ![No MCP Required](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-Not_Required-lightgrey)

Why This Plugin Exists

Claude Code is powerful, but it makes research-specific mistakes that cost weeks of compute:

It typed "done?" as "dont?" and launched an unwanted upload of thousands of files
It analyzed my full dataset when I asked for a specific 4k/2k/2k split
It claimed a test covered a bug it had never actually verified
It never once looked at a figure it generated, just trusted the numbers
It restarted a 50-hour training job without diffing the config against the reference run, lost three days
It claimed an experiment was diverging based on a non-converged proxy metric, killed it before downstream eval would have shown the truth
It ran rm -rf on a path it had hallucinated from memory, lost local checkpoints

Other plugins give you more commands. **This plugin gives you guardrails.**

Install

claude plugin marketplace add fcakyon/phd-skills
claude plugin install phd-skills@phd-skills

The plugin works correctly the moment it is installed. Optional: run `/phd-skills:setup` for a 30-second tour of what was auto-detected and to opt into extras (notifications, allowlist, LaTeX).