superpaper

SuperPaper — Dissertation Superpowers

A cross-platform agentic skills plugin for writing academic papers and dissertations. Install once, use with any AI coding agent.

SuperPaper is your project manager and writing assistant for dissertation writing. It tracks progress across sessions, generates ready-to-copy prompts for research and coding agents, and guides you through the entire dissertation lifecycle.

Quick Start

Claude Code:

/plugin install superpaper

Other platforms: See INSTALL.md

What SuperPaper Does

Project Manager

• init — Scaffold a new project or adopt an existing repo
• checkin — Start every session with context restoration and task suggestions
• plan — Create timeline with milestones and deadlines
• ingest — Process new materials (papers, notes, data) into the project
• memory-update — Persist session outcomes for next time

Research Facilitator

• brainstorm — Explore research topics and directions
• research — Generate search strategy and prompts for Deep Research agents
• data-explore — Create exploratory analysis specs for coding agents
• analysis — Create formal analysis specs with robustness checks

Writing Assistant

• setup-style — Extract writing style from sample papers
• outline — Design chapter arguments and evidence maps
• draft — Write or update chapter sections
• review — Check logic, citations, consistency, and style

Quality Assurance

• lint — Audit manuscript for TODOs, contradictions, gaps
• export — Combine chapters into submission document

Design Philosophy

SuperPaper knows its boundaries:

• Deep research → generates prompts for Gemini/GPT Deep Research
• Code/analysis → generates specs for coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
• Writing and project management → handles directly

It maintains context across sessions via a memory system, so your agent always knows where you left off.

Project Structure (generated by init)

your-dissertation/
  meta/           # Memory, progress, milestones, style guide, tasks
  writings/       # Per-chapter: outline, draft, status, reviews
  references/     # Literature (by citekey), results, docs

Documentation

• Full Specification
• Implementation Plan

License

MIT