About q-scholar
Q-Scholar orchestrates sub-skills for academic manuscript preparation under APA 7th edition standards. It covers work from exploratory data analysis and literature reviews to methods and results, with shared formatting and appendix references.
Key features
- 01Orchestrates seven manuscript sub-skills
- 02Follows APA 7th edition standards
- 03Shares formatting and appendix references
- 04Supports multimodal feature extraction
- 05Coordinates writing across manuscript sections
Use cases
- 01Prepare manuscript sections in APA style
- 02Draft or revise introductions and literature reviews
- 03Organize methods, results, and appendix content
- 04Extract research features from multimodal data
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ tyrealq/ q-skills --skill q-scholarAfter installing, type/q-scholarin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled files
References and scripts installed along with SKILL.md.
references/apa_style_guide.mdappendix_template.mdtable_formatting.mdDetails
From the project READMEQ-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
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