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title: "cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap"
description: "CBA Agentic Engineering Bootstrap Toolkit: research skills for Cursor (figures, prose, literature corpus, MIT decks, patched K-Dense methods)."
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# cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap
CBA Agentic Engineering Bootstrap Toolkit: research skills for Cursor (figures, prose, literature corpus, MIT decks, patched K-Dense methods).
- Slug: cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap
- Publisher: Ric Fulop / MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
- Repository: https://github.com/ricfulop/cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): research
- Skills: 35 (aps-figure-style, astropy, citation-management, domain-corpus-bootstrap, dual-source-honesty, figure-style, fluidsim, literature-corpus, literature-review, manuscript-prose-style, markdown-mermaid-writing, matplotlib, mit-presentation, nature-figure-style, paper-lookup, peer-review, prereg-freeze, pymatgen, pymc, pymoo, pyzotero, research-grants, scholar-evaluation, science-figure-style, scientific-critical-thinking, scientific-schematics, scientific-visualization, scientific-writing, scikit-learn, seaborn, statistical-analysis, statsmodels, sympy, venue-templates, verify-before-claiming)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1
- Repository created: 2026-09-02
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-02
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap
- Schema: https://open-plugins.com/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap does, in the publisher's words

Cursor (and Zed) research plugin for colleagues at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Figures, prose, literature corpus, official MIT decks, and a patched K-Dense methods subset. Kitchen-sink: core skills plus optional library wrappers.

Plugin name: cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap. Author: Ric Fulop / MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.

Public repository: https://github.com/ricfulop/cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ricfulop/cba-agentic-engineering-bootstrap/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- aps-figure-style
- astropy: Core Python library for astronomy and astrophysics workflows that need Astropy APIs, including units/quantities, coordinates, FITS I/O, tables, time systems, WCS, and cosmology. Use when implementing or debugging astronomical data analysis code with Astropy.
- citation-management: Comprehensive citation management for academic research. Search Google Scholar and PubMed for papers, extract accurate metadata, validate citations, and generate properly formatted BibTeX entries. This skill should be used when you need to find papers, verify citation information, convert DOIs to B…
- domain-corpus-bootstrap: Become a domain expert in X by building a reproducible, legally-acquired literature corpus for a new project or topic, topic map, checked-in query manifest, open-access download, priority triage, institutional (library) request list, corpus analysis, and handoff to the AGIneer RLM. Use when a new…
- dual-source-honesty: Keep fetch-time catalogs distinct from corrected bibliographies; keep measured, derived, and estimated values distinct. Use when cataloging papers or quoting a number's status.
- figure-style: Pointer to APS, Nature, and Science figure skills plus lib/styles.py. Use when making or editing a publication figure.
- fluidsim: Framework for computational fluid dynamics simulations using Python. Use when running fluid dynamics simulations including Navier-Stokes equations (2D/3D), shallow water equations, stratified flows, or when analyzing turbulence, vortex dynamics, or geophysical flows. Provides pseudospectral methods…
- literature-corpus: Pointer to domain-corpus-bootstrap. Use when starting a new topic, asking what to read, or building a reproducible literature corpus.
- literature-review: Conduct comprehensive, systematic literature reviews using multiple academic databases (PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar, etc.). This skill should be used when conducting systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, research synthesis, or comprehensive literature searches across biomedical…
- manuscript-prose-style
- markdown-mermaid-writing: Comprehensive markdown and Mermaid diagram writing skill. Use when creating any scientific document, report, analysis, or visualization. Establishes text-based diagrams as the default documentation standard with full style guides (markdown + mermaid), 24 diagram type references, and 9 document temp…
- matplotlib: Low-level plotting library for full customization. Use when you need fine-grained control over every plot element, creating novel plot types, or integrating with specific scientific workflows. Export to PNG/PDF/SVG for publication. For quick statistical plots use seaborn; for interactive plots use…
- mit-presentation
- nature-figure-style
- paper-lookup
- peer-review
- prereg-freeze
- pymatgen
- pymc
- pymoo
- pyzotero
- research-grants
- scholar-evaluation
- science-figure-style
- scientific-critical-thinking
- scientific-schematics
- scientific-visualization
- scientific-writing
- scikit-learn
- seaborn
- statistical-analysis
- statsmodels
- sympy
- venue-templates
- verify-before-claiming

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.