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Compile Latex · brycewang-stanford | DecimalAI

documentationby brycewang-stanford

Compile Latex

brycewang-stanford/compile-latex

Source brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills ↗License NOASSERTION

Use when compiling a LaTeX paper, debugging LaTeX errors, building a paper PDF, or when a .tex file fails to produce output. Handles engine detection (xelatex vs pdflatex), bibliography systems (biber vs bibtex), and multi-pass compilation.

SkillScore86Maintained

On-demandOn-demand: invoked explicitly — never occupies your agent's context until called.

Doc Ops pack

Last verified 8/8/2026

What it changes

Passed 16 of 19 test cases with the skill, and 16 of 19 without it.

Without skill82%

With skill86%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

States that compilation outcome is reported as PASS or FAIL.

1 fixed18 passed either way3 still failing0 broke

Pass-rate lift: +5 pp
Tokens: -23%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -45%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/8/2026v319 of 22 cases passed with skill · 19 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-compile-latex/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-compile-latex/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-compile-latex, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/brycewang-stanford-compile-latex/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add brycewang-stanford-compile-latex

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-compile-latex/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-compile-latex/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/brycewang-stanford-compile-latex/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/brycewang-stanford-compile-latex.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

A test case the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

Prompt

How should the final build summary report indicate the overall status of the LaTeX compilation?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
States that compilation outcome is reported as PASS or FAIL.	Missed	Passed

case-15 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/8/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md31 linessingle file

Compile LaTeX Manuscript

Compile a LaTeX manuscript using the standard 3-pass sequence for full citation resolution.

Steps

Identify the file: Use $ARGUMENTS as the base name (without .tex). If no argument, look for the main .tex file in the paper folder.

Compile (from the paper folder):

pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode $ARGUMENTS.tex
bibtex $ARGUMENTS
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode $ARGUMENTS.tex
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode $ARGUMENTS.tex

Check results:
- Grep for Overfull \\hbox warnings -- count them
- Grep for undefined citations or missing references
- Verify PDF was generated with non-zero size: ls -la $ARGUMENTS.pdf
- Report page count if pdfinfo is available
Report:
- Compilation: PASS / FAIL
- Warnings: N overfull hbox, N undefined citations
- PDF: exists, N pages, X KB

Notes

Uses pdflatex by default. Change to xelatex or lualatex if your project requires it.
The .bib file should be in the same directory or referenced with a relative path.
Parameter estimates loaded via \input{} must exist at their referenced paths.

Track record

Benchmark

16 / 19

test cases passed, vs 16 / 19 without

Adoption

Users: 0
Times used: 0

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan15 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 0 info — scanner v4 — 8/2/2026

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IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

brycewang-stanford / Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

skills/60-regisely-superpapers/skills/compile-latex/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License NOASSERTIONImported 8/2/2026Version v3

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