TIM Project Skills

Installable AI agent skills for Technology Innovation Management (TIM) project work at Carleton University. Let your AI coding agent structure, evaluate, and submit your TIM project report automatically.

What These Skills Help With

• Structure a TIM project report — 9-section guide covering Ch1–Ch6, formatting rules, critical alignment checks, and 10 method templates.
• Evaluate your report — 25-item PASS/FAIL compliance checklist that catches common mistakes before submission.
• Automate checks — 3 Python scripts to evaluate markdown drafts, generate report skeletons, and verify .docx files.
• Prepare for submission — final submission checklist for formatting, pagination, and references.
• Review a Gate 1 slide deck — slide structure, required content, and the six official G1 guidelines.
• Fix a python-docx bug — resolve the style-name vs style-ID mismatch when building .docx files programmatically.

Install

npx skills add https://github.com/hubeiqiao/tim-project-skills

The installer will guide you through the rest — it finds the available skills, asks which agent(s) you want to install them into, and shows a summary before proceeding.

Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, and other agents supported by the skills installer. You need Node.js installed so npx works.

Install one skill only

npx skills add https://github.com/hubeiqiao/tim-project-skills --skill tim-project-guide

Replace tim-project-guide with any skill name from the catalog below.

Use a Skill

After installation, ask your AI agent to use the skill by name:

• Use $tim-project-guide to evaluate my completed TIM report.
• Use $tim-project-guide to run a compliance audit on my report before submission.
• Use $tim-project-guide to help me write the Introduction chapter.
• Use $g1-slide-deck-guide to review my Gate 1 presentation outline.
• Use $python-docx-style-id-mismatch to fix why my Heading 2 paragraphs keep turning into Normal text.

Skill Catalog

Skill	What it helps with	Example prompt
tim-project-guide	Report structure (9 sections), formatting rules, chapter expectations, 25-item evaluation checklist, submission checklist, document management workflow, and reusable scripts	Use $tim-project-guide to evaluate my completed TIM report.
g1-slide-deck-guide	Gate 1 slide deck structure, required content, and review guidance	Use $g1-slide-deck-guide to check whether my slides match the G1 format.
python-docx-style-id-mismatch	Fix the python-docx style-name vs style-ID bug	Use $python-docx-style-id-mismatch to fix my custom heading insertion script.

What's in tim-project-guide

Section	Content
1. Formatting Rules	Margins, font, spacing, pagination, title page, abstract, ToC guidance
2. Report Structure	Getting started checklist, Ch1–Ch6 with section-by-section guidance, common mistake callouts
3. Critical Alignment Rules	Deliverable consistency, activity/outcome separation, provenance labels
4. Research Method Templates	10 DSR method patterns with step-by-step tables
5. Common Supervisor Feedback	Anticipate and address typical revision requests
6. Quick Reference Checklist	25-item checklist for structure, content, citations, and appendices
7. Report Evaluation Workflow	PASS/FAIL audit process, items most likely to fail, automation guide
8. Final Submission Checklist	Formatting, pagination, auto-generated lists, title page, references
9. Document Management Workflow	Markdown-to-docx sync, supervisor feedback handling, decision table

Scripts

Three Python scripts in skills/tim-project-guide/scripts/:

Script	What it does	Requirements
evaluate_report.py	Auto-checks ~17 checklist items on markdown chapter files. PASS/FAIL output with evidence.	Python 3.8+ (stdlib only)
generate_shell.py	Creates markdown skeleton files with all required section headings. Configurable: --approach A|B, --steps N, --deliverables N.	Python 3.8+ (stdlib only)
verify_docx.py	Converts .docx to markdown via pandoc, runs evaluation checks, and compares against markdown drafts for sync issues.	Python 3.8+ and pandoc

# Evaluate markdown drafts
python scripts/evaluate_report.py path/to/TIM_Report_Draft/

# Generate a report shell with 6 method steps and 4 deliverables
python scripts/generate_shell.py --steps 6 --deliverables 4 output/

# Verify a .docx against markdown drafts
python scripts/verify_docx.py report.docx --drafts path/to/TIM_Report_Draft/

Document Skills

The docx, pdf, and pptx skills come from Anthropic's public skills repository, not this repo. Install them separately:

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/skills

Then choose docx, pdf, and pptx during the installer flow.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Solution
npx: command not found	Install Node.js and open a new terminal window
Skill does not appear in agent	Restart the agent app or terminal, then re-run the install command
Installed wrong skill or agent	Run the installer again and choose the correct target
Want to preview available skills	Run npx skills add https://github.com/hubeiqiao/tim-project-skills --list

Provenance

The TIM-specific skills in this repository are adapted from TIM project guideline materials for the TIM report and Gate 1 slide deck. Practical guidance (labeled inline) is derived from experience completing a full TIM project report.

License

Unless a file or subdirectory says otherwise, original repository-authored material is available under the root MIT License.