Parked skill idea, moved from FUTURE-IDEAS.md when that file was retired in favour of tracker issues (2026-08-13 maintenance round). Evidence base: the 2026-07 PR-history analysis.
The idea
"Tom's lectures" intake formatting: convert delivered LaTeX material to house MyST style. Roughly 20 PRs in lecture-python.myst and lecture-python-advanced.myst follow this pattern. Maps to the latex-to-myst idea in QuantEcon/meta#304.
Assessment (2026-08-13)
Real but bursty — the work arrives in batches when new material is delivered, then goes quiet. That shape actually favours a skill over memory: by the next batch, whoever did the last one has forgotten the details, and the conventions are exactly the kind of institutional knowledge that evaporates between bursts.
The economics only work if the playbook is extracted from the ~20 existing intake PRs once, while they are still easy to find. A thin skill that encodes the checklist (front-matter, math environment translation, figure/citation conversion, what to leave for the editor) and points at the style rules the qe plugin already carries would be cheap to write at the start of the next intake burst — which is the natural trigger to build it, not before.
Parked skill idea, moved from
FUTURE-IDEAS.mdwhen that file was retired in favour of tracker issues (2026-08-13 maintenance round). Evidence base: the 2026-07 PR-history analysis.The idea
"Tom's lectures" intake formatting: convert delivered LaTeX material to house MyST style. Roughly 20 PRs in lecture-python.myst and lecture-python-advanced.myst follow this pattern. Maps to the
latex-to-mystidea in QuantEcon/meta#304.Assessment (2026-08-13)
Real but bursty — the work arrives in batches when new material is delivered, then goes quiet. That shape actually favours a skill over memory: by the next batch, whoever did the last one has forgotten the details, and the conventions are exactly the kind of institutional knowledge that evaporates between bursts.
The economics only work if the playbook is extracted from the ~20 existing intake PRs once, while they are still easy to find. A thin skill that encodes the checklist (front-matter, math environment translation, figure/citation conversion, what to leave for the editor) and points at the style rules the
qeplugin already carries would be cheap to write at the start of the next intake burst — which is the natural trigger to build it, not before.