Q-skills q-scholar

Orchestrate end-to-end academic manuscript preparation following APA 7th edition. Use for writing papers, drafting sections, or academic writing support.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/TyrealQ/q-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/TyrealQ/q-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/q-scholar" ~/.claude/skills/tyrealq-q-skills-q-scholar && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/q-scholar/SKILL.md

source content

Q-Scholar

Orchestrates specialized sub-skills for academic manuscript preparation following APA 7th edition standards.

Script Directory

Agent execution instructions:

Determine this SKILL.md file's directory path as
```
SKILL_DIR
```
.
Sub-skill path =
```
${SKILL_DIR}/<sub-skill>/SKILL.md
```
.
Shared reference path =
```
${SKILL_DIR}/references/<ref-name>
```
.

Shared References

All drafting sub-skills inherit these:

references/apa_style_guide.md — numbers, statistics, notation, punctuation, formulas
references/table_formatting.md — APA 7th table structure and examples
references/appendix_template.md — shared appendix structure for methods and results

Sub-Skills

Skill	Purpose
q-eda	Exploratory data analysis (measurement-appropriate statistics to CSV + summary)
q-intro	Draft or refine introduction sections (phenomenon to theory to contribution)
q-litreview	Draft standalone literature reviews (progressive argument to earned RQs)
q-methods	Draft methods sections (data collection, analysis, validation procedures)
q-multimodal	Multimodal feature extraction (Pillow, openSMILE, Gemini visual semantic analysis)
q-results	Draft results sections (findings with APA tables and narrative flow)
q-tf	Topic finetuning (raw topics to theory-driven classification)

Core Writing Principles

All drafting sub-skills follow these standards:

Narrative prose; no bullet points, em-dashes, or standalone introductory paragraphs
Prefer 3-12 sentence paragraphs; merge pre-table intros into the post-table narrative
No unnecessary bold or italic emphasis in running text
Follow ../references/apa_style_guide.md for APA formatting, numbers, notation, and formulas
Use appendices for technical details; placeholders for pending information
Cross-section coordination: compress in the intro what the lit review elaborates; each section does distinct work