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Paper Theater — Development skill for Claude Code

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Miniature stagings of theory papers, as agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes: script · rehearse · stage · restage · tryout · canon · blocking.

How to install Paper Theater

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

What Paper Theater does

Miniature stagings of theory papers, as agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes: script · rehearse · stage · restage · tryout · canon · blocking. Theorem-only prototypes with complete structured proofs, an obligation ledger, a dead-end promptbook, and adversarial three-pass tryouts (format v1.9).

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README

paper-theater

**Miniature stagings of theory papers, as agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes.**

Nineteenth-century toy theaters were full productions in miniature — stages printed on paper, sold as kits, made to test whether the play works before anyone builds the real set. paper-theater does the same for theory papers in economics, operations research, and information systems: small, complete, honest stagings of the logic, before you write the paper.

*script the paper, rehearse its moves, stage your own, tryout before opening night — the survivors join the canon.*

The seven acts

skill	what it does
script	strips any paper — yours or the literature's — to its bare spine: assumptions, lemmas, results, in the paper's own order, every block faithfully restated and source-anchored (`[Thm 2, eq. (14), p. 9]`). A 30-page paper becomes a 2-page read. Published papers end with the canon gate.
rehearse	extracts the math tools a paper runs on (envelope theorem, normal–normal updating, supermodularity, …) into an iPad-ready study file: one tool per page — statement, how this paper uses it, worked example, exercises — with verified solutions at the back and a wide margin for Apple Pencil working.
stage	turns a new idea into a condensed 2–4pp note under the theorem-only rule: every stated result carries a complete appendix proof, machine-audited in `checks/` where feasible. What is not proved is not stated. It appears as one prose line under Open problems instead. Capped glue (Intuition ≤ 2 sentences, Next ≤ 1), a one-page skeleton map, a verification contract, calibration against exemplars retrieved from your canon.
restage	rebuilds a staging after the math changes, with honest roster invalidation: unchanged results and their proofs are carried, changed results are re-proved in full or move to Open problems. A proof never survives a change to the math it proved.
tryout	the out-of-t