Use Claude Code to coordinate research and drafting

Researchers used Claude Code to manage lab-style work and produce papers or theses in LaTeX or Markdown.

Done with Claude Code· Intermediate· Jan 2025

What they did
One researcher turned Claude Code into a stand-in research office, splitting work across roles such as PI, operations, interns, grad students, a programmer, and a fact-checking QA step. Another person built a comparable setup on Dust, and a commenter said they wrote a master’s thesis from inside VS Code with Claude Code, using LaTeX or Markdown for the document.
How it went
People in the thread said the approach helped them organize collaboration and speed up writing. They also described friction: Dust’s available models changed, Claude’s context trimming made extended reasoning weaker, some tools did a poor job with documents, and manual data entry still had to be handled by hand.
Tips
The hardest part is usually the setup, not the first run. Plan your roles, directories, and subagents carefully, then keep testing edge cases until the outputs fit the way your team works.

Try it yourself with Claude Code

Take the role of research coordinator for my project on [topic] in [folder path]. Review the notes and source files there, then divide the work into clear jobs: source summaries, an outline, draft sections in [LaTeX or Markdown], and a check for claims that need verification against files in the folder. When the next step would delete, overwrite, submit, or send anything, pause and ask me first. Leave me with a draft and a short list of unresolved questions.

Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.

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