Phd Skills

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.

   

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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.**

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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).

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Usage

Open Claude Code in your project directory, then:

• `/ph