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Clo-Author

external · status: active · focus: end-to-end · discipline: economics · started: 2026

Project page: https://github.com/hugosantanna/clo-author

Source: projects/landscape/clo-author.yml

Positioning

A Claude Code scaffold for empirical economics research, spanning literature review through journal submission. Eighteen agents organized as worker-critic pairs (e.g., Strategist + strategist- critic, Coder + coder-critic) with thirteen named pipeline commands from /discover and /strategize through /write, /review, /revise, /talk, and /submit. Targets the full inputs → knowledge production → outputs arc of the RISE diagram with a domain-specific focus on applied economics.

Distinctive contribution

Worker-critic pair architecture as a first-class design principle: every creator agent has a paired critic that cannot edit files, with 3-round escalation when they disagree. Built-in peer-review simulation with intellectual-disposition reviewers (Structuralist, Credibility, Measurement, Policy, Theory, Skeptic) weighted by journal culture and FATAL / ADDRESSABLE / TASTE classification of comments. Direct sibling to e2er but distributed as a forkable Claude Code template rather than a Docker stack.

Evaluation scores

Dimension Score (0–3) Note
Lifecycle coverage 3 Thirteen stages including dissemination (/submit) — broadest coverage in catalog after E2ER.
Autonomy level 2 Supervised: researcher approves plans before execution; worker-critic disagreements escalate to human after 3 rounds.
Architectural transparency 3 Skill, agent, and command definitions are plain markdown in .claude/; full guide at hugosantanna.github.io/clo-author/.
Inputs supported 2 Topic / question / referee-report inputs; user provides data; multi-language analysis (R, Python, Julia).
Outputs / reproducibility 2 Generates replication packages with /submit; LaTeX paper is single source of truth; quality gate (>=80/100) before ship.
Internal evaluation 2 Built-in peer-review simulation with weighted reviewer dispositions; no published external benchmark yet.
Openness 1 Source is public on GitHub but no declared open-source license — reuse rights are uncertain.
Maturity / traction 1 Created 2026-02; 193 stars; very active development through May 2026; single-author project at this date.
Cross-family policy 0 Worker-critic pairs within Claude Code (single model family).
Runtime assurance 2 Worker-critic pair architecture with 3-round escalation + 80/100 quality gate before ship.
Cross-platform portability 1 Claude Code primary back-end; multi-language analysis (R, Python, Julia) is data-side, not agent-side.

Scored on 2026-05-18. See the evaluation rubric.

Tags

Pipeline stages: rq-formulation hypothesis-generation literature-discovery literature-synthesis research-design data-acquisition data-analysis formal-modeling code-generation paper-drafting revision-editing referee-simulation dissemination

Architectural features: multi-agent debate-consensus human-in-loop tool-use persistent-memory artifact-versioning

Inputs: research-topic research-question referee-report

Outputs: paper-latex code slides replication-package referee-reports

Data sources: user-provided

Knowledge sources: literature

Limitations

  • No declared open-source license; reuse rights uncertain.
  • Economics-focused by default; portability to other fields requires customizing domain-profile + journal profiles.
  • Depends on Claude Code; not a fully local solution.
  • Quality gates and review simulation are internal; no third-party validation reported.