Claude Code Skills

Personal skills repo for academic empirical finance research workflows.

Repo layout

~/.claude/skills/
├── <skill-name>/       one folder per skill, each with a SKILL.md
├── output-styles/      copies of my Claude Code output styles
├── presentations/      talks given about this repo
└── README.md

Skill folders have to stay at the top level. Claude Code discovers personal skills at exactly ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md and does not look any deeper, so the skills cannot be tidied into a skills/ subfolder — they would silently stop loading. (Nested .claude/skills/ directories are supported inside a project, but that is a monorepo feature and does not apply here.)

output-styles/ and presentations/ are safe as siblings: a folder with no SKILL.md in it is ignored by skill discovery.

Setup

Fresh install (empty ~/.claude/skills/)

Clone this repo directly into the Claude Code global skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git "$HOME\.claude\skills"

Selective install (skills directory already exists)

If ~/.claude/skills/ already contains other skills, do not clone on top of it — it will fail. Instead, clone into a temporary location and copy only the skills you want:

git clone https://github.com/aspi6246/Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics.git "$HOME\claude-skills-tmp"
Copy-Item "$HOME\claude-skills-tmp\wrap-up" "$HOME\.claude\skills\" -Recurse
# repeat for each desired skill, then remove the temp dir
Remove-Item "$HOME\claude-skills-tmp" -Recurse -Force

Updating

After editing skills on GitHub or locally:

cd "$HOME\.claude\skills"
git pull

Skills

Output styles

The output-styles/ folder holds copies of my Claude Code output styles. They are not skills and Claude Code does not load them from this repo — they are kept here so one repo holds the whole setup. A skill loads for a specific task; an output style changes role, tone, and response format for every turn of a session.

Install and activation instructions are in output-styles/README.md. These are copies; the live files live in ~/.claude/output-styles/ and do not sync automatically.

Presentations

presentations/ holds talks given about this repo. Currently:

• Claude Code Skills for Academic Researchers — A Practical Introduction (UTS Finance Department Brownbag, March 2026, 28 slides)

Slides only; the Beamer sources live elsewhere. See presentations/README.md.

Adding a new skill

1. Create a new folder with a descriptive name
2. Add a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter (name and description)
3. Test with a natural prompt in Claude Code
4. Iterate until stable
5. Commit and push

Notes

• Skills are plain Markdown
• The description field is the most important line in any skill — Claude uses it to decide whether to load the skill
• GitHub is the cloud backup