Claude Code

I use Claude Code — Anthropic’s terminal-based AI coding assistant — as a daily thinking partner for empirical research, teaching prep, and writing. The materials below are aimed at finance academics curious about using it for similar work.

Talks

I’ve given two department brownbags walking through how I use Claude Code in practice. Slides are public.

1. Claude Code for Academics. What Claude Code is, the thinking-partner philosophy, CLAUDE.md as institutional memory, the Referee 2 pattern, cross-language replication, and sandbox safety.
   [Slides (PDF)]

2. Claude Code Skills for Academics. Building reusable Claude Code skills (split-pdf, paper-editor, code-audit, wrap-up, skill-writing-guide), and end-to-end tooling setup.
   [Slides (PDF)]

Open Source

Two public repositories I maintain:

1. Claude-Code-Presentation — a collection of Claude Code tools, personas, and presentations.

2. Claude-Code-Skills-for-Academics — custom Claude Code skills tailored for empirical research: data profiling, paper review, R-code conventions, and more.

Related Reading

Scott Cunningham’s Substack series on Claude Code for empirical research was a big influence on how I started using these tools.