Phd Skills plugin for Grok Build
PhD Research Skills for Claude Code: paper reproduction, experiment design, paper review, result comparison and more.
How to install Phd Skills in Grok Build
1. Add this repo as a plugin marketplace in Grok Build (once per computer):
grok plugin marketplace add fcakyon/phd-skills2. Install the plugin:
grok plugin install phd-skills@fcakyon/phd-skills --trustReview before you trust it. --trust lets this plugin's hooks, MCP servers and scripts run code on your computer. It's a community repo that neither xAI nor GrokStacks has reviewed, so read its code first.
Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Inside Grok Build: type /plugins, open the Marketplace tab, press a and add fcakyon/phd-skills, then select phd-skills and press i.
Command format: Grok Build's plugin guide
What we checked: on Oct 18, 2026 it installed with grok 1.0.62 and Grok found 18 skills, 6 slash commands, 1 subagent. That's an install check only: we haven't run it in a live Grok session.
What it contains
Skills (18)
compare— Same-epoch comparison of training runs across wandb, neptune, tensorboard, or mlflow. Aligns runs at the student's current step (never current-vs-final-of-baseline) and separates proxy metrics from downstream targets. Use when the user asksdataset-curation— Use when the user wants to analyze dataset bias, create stratified samples, evaluate fairness, or plan dataset collection. Triggers on phrases like "dataset bias", "stratified sample", "class imbalance", "data distribution", "fairness analydebug— Evidence-before-action diagnosis of failing ML experiments. Probes the system before guessing causes, process list, dmesg, GPU stats, log scrollback, checkpoint state, then states a hypothesis as a hypothesis and runs a smoke before claiminexperiment-design— Use when the user wants to design experiments, plan ablation studies, structure baselines, or create incremental evaluation strategies. Triggers on phrases like "design ablation", "plan experiment", "what experiments should I run", "baselinlatex-setup— Use when the user wants to set up or troubleshoot a LaTeX environment, choose between biber and bibtex, install packages for a specific venue template, or configure compilation. Triggers on phrases like "setup latex", "biber vs bibtex", "lalaunch— Pre-flight checklist for long-running ML training jobs covering config diff, run naming, path verification, monitoring setup, and restart-cleanup. Use when the user asks to launch, kick off, start, restart, or kill a training run, or mentioliterature-research— Use when the user wants to find related work, survey a research area, identify literature gaps, or discover open-source implementations. Triggers on phrases like "find papers on", "related work", "literature review", "what papers exist", "opaper-verification— Use when the user wants to verify paper claims against code or data, audit numerical accuracy, check formula-code alignment, or validate citation accuracy. Triggers on phrases like "verify claims", "check numbers", "do the numbers match", "paper-writing— Use when the user wants to write, structure, or revise academic paper sections, improve notation consistency, or refine figures and tables. Triggers on phrases like "write the abstract", "structure the methods", "improve this section", "notreproduce— End-to-end paper reproduction from arxiv URL through smoke runs to replication experiments. Handles missing or partial official code, missing training scripts, missing hyperparameters, and private datasets via similar-public-dataset substitresearch-publishing— Use when the user wants to prepare code for open-source release, create reproducible research artifacts, or structure a repository for publication. Triggers on phrases like "publish code", "open source release", "reproducibility", "researchreviewer-defense— Use when the user wants to anticipate reviewer questions, select the strongest ablations to present, prepare rebuttals, or identify paper weaknesses before submission. Triggers on phrases like "reviewer questions", "anticipate reviewers", "factcheck— Verify BibTeX entries and cited claims against DBLP and web sources. Checks author names, venues, years, and specific numerical claims.fortify— Select strongest ablations and anticipate reviewer questions. Reads paper and experiment results to prepare for peer review.gaps— Literature gap analysis with web confirmation. Takes a research topic or question and maps existing work to find what's missing.help— Show all phd-skills features, commands, skills, agents, and hooks at a glance. Use for in-session discoverability.setup— 30-second auto-detection tour, then optional configuration of notifications, CLI allowlist, research CLAUDE.md rules, and LaTeX environment.xray— Multi-dimensional paper audit — spawns 5 parallel sub-agents to check numerical accuracy, terminology consistency, code-paper alignment, citation accuracy, and evaluation integrity.
Subagents (2)
phd-skills:experiment-analyzer— Analyze experiment results from any tracking system. Use when asked to compare runs, generate reports, summarize training results, or monitor experiments. Triggers on phrases like "compare runs", "anaphd-skills:paper-auditor— Autonomous paper consistency verification. Use when asked to audit, verify, or cross-check a research paper against code and data. Triggers on phrases like "audit my paper", "verify paper against code
Hooks (1)
hooks— Notification, PostToolUse, PreCompact, PreToolUse, Stop
About this listing
Phd Skills is a community plugin on GitHub by fcakyon, written as a Claude Code plugin that Grok Build installs. We install-checked it in Grok; we haven't run it in a live session or reviewed its code. When we installed it, Grok found 18 skills, 2 subagents, 1 hook. Its license is MIT. We checked commit 50df7160ab35. It's one of 143 listings in the Design category on GrokStacks.
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Phd Skills FAQ
How do I install Phd Skills in Grok Build?
Add the repo as a marketplace with grok plugin marketplace add fcakyon/phd-skills, then run grok plugin install phd-skills@fcakyon/phd-skills --trust. Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Is Phd Skills an official Grok Build plugin?
No. Phd Skills is a community plugin on GitHub by fcakyon, not in xAI's official Grok Build marketplace. We checked that it installs and what Grok loads from it, but haven't run it in a live Grok session or reviewed its code.
What does Phd Skills include?
According to what Grok loaded in our install check, Phd Skills includes 18 skills, 2 subagents, 1 hook: compare, dataset-curation, debug, experiment-design, latex-setup, launch….
Details
- Type
- Plugin
- Category
- Design
- Source
- Community Claude Code plugin, installs in Grok
- License
- MIT
- Author
- fcakyon
- Keywords
- academic, agents, ai, claude, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-skills, conference, fable, hooks, journal, mcp
- Source repo
- https://github.com/fcakyon/phd-skills
- Checked commit
50df7160ab35- Checked by GrokStacks
- Install-checked in Grok Build on Oct 18, 2026; not run in a live session
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**[Phd Skills on GrokStacks](https://grokstacks.com/p/phd-skills/)**: Community plugin for Grok Build with 18 skills, 2 subagents, 1 hook. Install: `grok plugin install phd-skills@fcakyon/phd-skills --trust` (after `grok plugin marketplace add fcakyon/phd-skills`)More on badges, embeds and keeping your listing up to date: GrokStacks for plugin authors.
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