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Fills all [FILL:] placeholders across the template to initialize a new research project. Use when setting up a freshly cloned project.

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Use init to initialize this freshly cloned research project with [project details], fill its template placeholders, regenerate the rendered LaTeX output, and report updated files, remaining placeholders, and render status.

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  • [project details]

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name: initdescription: Fills all [FILL:] placeholders across the template to initialize a new research project. Use when setting up a freshly cloned project.disable-model-invocation: trueallowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep

Initialize Project

Fill in all [FILL:] placeholders across the template to set up a new research project.

Steps

  1. Scan all tracked files for [FILL: patterns and group them by file:

    grep -rn "\[FILL:" --include="*.md" --include="*.qmd" --include="*.toml" --include="*.tex" --include="*.yml" .

    Report how many placeholders exist and in which files.

  2. Ask the user for project information:

    • Project title (used in index.qmd, README.md, CLAUDE.md, pyproject.toml)
    • Subtitle (optional, for index.qmd)
    • Authors — for each author:
      • Name, affiliation (university, city, country), ORCID, email
      • Whether they are the corresponding author
    • Abstract (for index.qmd)
    • Keywords (for index.qmd)
    • Project stage (for CLAUDE.md: Idea / Data collection / Analysis / Writing / Revision)
    • Data source description (for CLAUDE.md and README.md)
    • Repository URL (for README.md)
    • Project slug (for pyproject.toml name field, e.g., regional-gdp-study)

  3. Apply the values to each file:

    • index.qmd — title, subtitle, authors (full YAML array with affiliations/ORCID/email), abstract, keywords
    • README.md — project title, description paragraph, data section, repository URL, Quick Start clone URL
    • CLAUDE.md — Project Context table: title, authors, stage, data source
    • pyproject.toml — name, description, authors
    • _quarto.yml — no [FILL:] placeholders by default, but verify
    • templates/chadManuscript/manuscript.tex — author names and keywords

  4. After applying all values, re-scan for remaining [FILL:] placeholders:

    grep -rn "\[FILL:" --include="*.md" --include="*.qmd" --include="*.toml" --include="*.tex" --include="*.yml" .

    Report how many remain and where (some are expected in section bodies like "Describe the data...").

  5. Run bash scripts/render.sh to regenerate latex/index.tex with the real content.

  6. Report a summary: files updated, placeholders filled, placeholders remaining, render status.