LaTeX Agentic

Bibliography lifecycle specialist for biblatex/biber — fetching, normalizing, deduplicating, and validating references. Use when adding citations, fetching BibTeX from a DOI or arXiv ID, cleaning up a messy .bib, fixing broken or duplicate entries, standardizing citation keys, or validating a bibliography.

Compile-log forensic specialist that diagnoses and fixes LaTeX build failures from the .log. Use when a compile fails, latexmk/xelatex errors out, the PDF won't build, you see "Undefined control sequence", "Missing $", a missing .sty, font-not-found, or undefined references that won't resolve.

Multilingual and multi-script typesetting specialist for XeLaTeX — polyglossia, per-script fonts, RTL, and CJK. Use when a document mixes languages or scripts, needs Arabic/Hebrew RTL, Chinese/Japanese/Korean, Cyrillic/Greek, localized dates or numbering, or correct hyphenation and font fallbacks for non-Latin text.

Expert in LaTeX document architecture — class selection, package stacks with correct load order, and project structure for XeLaTeX projects. Use when starting a new document, choosing a document class, designing or auditing a preamble, deciding how to split a large document into \input files, or writing the .latex-agentic.json project contract.

Expert at turning prose, outlines, and rough ideas into idiomatic, semantic LaTeX. Use when drafting or rewriting body text, adding sections, inserting figures or tables, writing math, or converting Markdown/plain notes into clean .tex with proper labels, quoting, and cross-references.

Manage references with biblatex/biber. Use to add a citation from a DOI, arXiv id, or paper title; to set up bibliography wiring in a document; or to check the bibliography for duplicates, missing fields, and unused entries. Triggers on phrases like "add citation", "cite this paper", "add reference", "fix bibliography", "set up biblatex", "check my references", "find the bibtex for".

Remove LaTeX build artifacts from the project. Default keeps the PDF (latexmk -c plus .bbl/.run.xml/.synctex.gz); with --all also removes the PDF (latexmk -C) after explicit confirmation. Never touches .tex, .bib, or figures. Use when the user says "clean", "clean build", "remove aux files", "clean up the project", "tidy build artifacts".

Compile the current LaTeX project with the canonical latexmk/XeLaTeX build, reading engine and main file from .latex-agentic.json. Reports page count, warning count, and over/underfull box counts on success; on failure extracts only the first error block and hands off to the fix-errors flow. Use when the user says "compile", "build", "build the PDF", "render the document".

Diagnose and repair LaTeX compilation failures in a bounded loop — compile capturing the log, isolate the FIRST error, look it up in the error playbook, apply the minimal fix, recompile, repeat (max 5 iterations). Use when a build fails, the user says "fix errors", "fix the compile", "it won't compile", "debug the LaTeX", or when the /compile skill hands off a failure.

Auto-format LaTeX source with latexindent and normalize typography. Use to reindent .tex files, fix inconsistent indentation, tidy whitespace, or convert straight quotes to proper LaTeX quotes. Triggers on phrases like "format my latex", "reindent", "run latexindent", "clean up the formatting", "fix the indentation", "tidy this tex file", "normalize quotes".

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