latex-toolkit skillA
latex-toolkit is agent-read markdown (skill) from khaledsaeed18/dotclaude: Set up, build, and debug a LaTeX thesis: project layout with one file per chapter, latexmk builds, biblatex or natbib bibliography wiring, university template adoption, compile-error diagnosis from the .log (undefined control sequence, missing $, overfull boxes, undefined citations), cross-references, figures and tables, and the packages worth using. Use when starting a LaTeX thesis, when a build fails, when references show as question marks, or when adopting a department template..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
LaTeX problems fall into two kinds: a build that fails (read the log, fix the first error, rebuild) and a document that builds wrong (question marks, misplaced floats, broken references). Both are diagnosed from the `.log`, never by guessing at the source.
## Project layout
```
thesis/
main.tex \documentclass, packages, \input of chapters
preamble.tex packages and macros, nothing else
chapters/01-introduction.tex ...
figures/ vector PDFs or high-dpi PNGs, one per figure
tables/ generated .tex tables (from scripts, never hand-typed numbers)
references.bib the bibliography (bibtex-manager owns it)
latexmkrc build settings
.gitignore *.aux *.bbl *.blg *.log *.out *.toc *.lof *.lot *.fls *.fdb_latexmk *.synctex.gz
```
One file per chapter, `\input{chapters/01-introduction}` from `main.tex`. `\includeonly{chapters/04-results}` speeds up iteration on one chapter.
## Build
Use latexmk; it runs pdflatex/biber/pdflatex the right number of times:
```bash
latexmk -pdf -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error main.tex
latexmk -pdf -pvc main.tex # rebuild on save
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/latex-toolkit@git:20260921.2dcedeemdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/latex-toolkit@sha256:8de934189efa70acPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Source
khaledsaeed18/dotclaude · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
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