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phd-skills MCP Server

Name: fcakyon/phd-skills
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Author: fcakyon

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

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Overview

fcakyon/phd-skills is a Shell tool licensed under MIT. PhD Research Skills for Claude Code: paper reproduction, experiment design, paper review, result comparison and more. Topics: academic, claude-code, phd, research, agents, ai, claude, hooks, mcp, plugin, skills, conference, journal, paper-reproduction, paper-review, claude-code-plugin, claude-skills, fable, opus, research-skills.

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Stars: 418
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Language: Shell
License: MIT
Last Commit: 1mo ago

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# 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)
(2000+ citations, 5 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, l

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