Academic Workspace — Project Management

Overview

The workspace at /workspace/ is a persistent volume that survives container restarts. Use it for all user data: projects, notebooks, output files.

Directory Structure

/workspace/ ├── projects/ # Research projects (one directory per project) │ └── my-paper/ │ ├── main.tex │ ├── sections/ │ ├── figures/ │ ├── references.bib │ └── Makefile ├── notebooks/ # Jupyter notebooks │ └── analysis.ipynb ├── output/ # Compiled PDFs, plots, results │ ├── paper.pdf │ └── figure1.png ├── skills/ # Academic skills (auto-managed) └── .openclaw/ # OpenClaw configuration (auto-managed)

When To Use

• User starts a new research project

• User asks to organize files or set up a project structure

• User needs paper templates

Create a New Project

LaTeX paper project

PROJECT="/workspace/projects/my-paper" mkdir -p "$PROJECT"/{sections,figures}

Create main.tex

cat > "$PROJECT/main.tex" << 'TEX' \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=biber]{biblatex} \addbibresource{references.bib}

\title{Paper Title} \author{Author Name} \date{\today}

\begin{document} \maketitle

\input{sections/abstract} \input{sections/introduction} \input{sections/method} \input{sections/experiments} \input{sections/conclusion}

\printbibliography \end{document} TEX

Create section stubs

for sec in abstract introduction method experiments conclusion; do echo "\section{$(echo $sec | sed 's/.*/\u&/')}" > "$PROJECT/sections/$sec.tex" echo "% TODO: Write $sec" >> "$PROJECT/sections/$sec.tex" done

Create empty bibliography

cat > "$PROJECT/references.bib" << 'BIB' % Bibliography — add entries here % Example: % @article{key2024, % author = {Last, First}, % title = {Title}, % journal = {Journal}, % year = {2024}, % } BIB

Create Makefile for easy compilation

cat > "$PROJECT/Makefile" << 'MAKE' all: main.pdf

main.pdf: main.tex sections/*.tex references.bib pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex biber main pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex cp main.pdf /workspace/output/

clean: rm -f *.aux *.bbl *.bcf *.blg *.log *.out *.run.xml *.toc *.pdf

.PHONY: all clean MAKE

echo "Project created at: $PROJECT"

Python data analysis project

PROJECT="/workspace/projects/analysis" mkdir -p "$PROJECT"/{data,results,figures}

cat > "$PROJECT/README.md" << 'MD'

Data Analysis Project

Structure

• data/ — raw and processed datasets
• results/ — analysis outputs
• figures/ — generated plots
• analysis.py — main analysis script MD

echo "Project created at: $PROJECT"

Available Templates

When creating a LaTeX project, ask the user which template they prefer:

Template Use case Engine

article

General papers pdflatex

article-zh

Chinese papers xelatex

beamer

Presentations/slides pdflatex

ieee

IEEE conference format pdflatex

Check available templates: curl -sf http://localhost:8080/templates | jq .

Compile a Project

cd /workspace/projects/my-paper make # Uses Makefile

or manually:

pdflatex main.tex && biber main && pdflatex main.tex && pdflatex main.tex

Tips

• Always save outputs to /workspace/output/ — the web UI can display PDFs from there.

• Keep projects self-contained: all deps inside the project directory.

• Use Makefiles for reproducible compilation.

• Git is available for version control: cd /workspace/projects/my-paper && git init .