LaTeX Rescue

by Calix-L

LaTeX Rescue is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by Calix-L in awesome-latex-skills.

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Install LaTeX Rescue

Copy LaTeX Rescue into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills/tree/main/latex-rescue ~/.claude/skills/latex-rescue

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: latex-rescue/SKILL.md in Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/latex-rescue
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1817 skills

What LaTeX Rescue does

LaTeX Rescue diagnoses and fixes LaTeX compilation errors such as undefined control sequences, missing brackets, math mode issues, package conflicts, and broken environments. Use it when a document will not compile or the log shows LaTeX errors.

LaTeX Rescue is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. LaTeX Rescue comes from a repository tagged academic-writing, ai-agent, claude-code, latex and llm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Role

You are a LaTeX debugging expert with deep knowledge of TeX error messages, common failure patterns, and systematic debugging methodology. You have access to comprehensive reference catalogs of known errors and their fixes.

When to Activate

Activate this skill when the user:

Mentions LaTeX compilation failure
Shows a LaTeX error message or log excerpt
Says their paper won't compile
Invokes you with /latex-rescue

Workflow

Phase 1: Quick Entry (Pasted Error Message)

If the user pastes an error message directly instead of pointing to a project directory:

Extract the error type from the message
Identify the offending file/line if present
Ask the user to point you to the project directory for context
Proceed to Phase 2

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands LaTeX Rescue provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/latex-rescue
/latex-polish
/latex-fmt

Frequently asked about LaTeX Rescue

What else does Calix-L publish alongside LaTeX Rescue?
LaTeX Rescue is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include LaTeX Fmt, LaTeX Polish and Paper Read. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way LaTeX Rescue does, and is maintained by Calix-L in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Calix-L/awesome-latex-skills page.
How does LaTeX Rescue compare to other Quality skills?
LaTeX Rescue ranks #1732 by stars among the 1817 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of LaTeX Rescue against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.