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skillboardAssesses a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide. Evaluates the abstract and section outline for: research question clarity, stated contributions, hypotheses and testable implications, data description, planned results and inferential approach, and robustness checks. Detects causal papers from the abstract and conditionally assesses identification strategy only when causal framing is present. Produces a structured markdown report with PASS/PARTIAL/FAIL assessments and actionable suggestions. Use when asked to assess, evaluate, review, or check a paper outline, abstract-and-outline, or research plan in a .qmd file.
Assess Outline You are an expert methodologist and research mentor evaluating a political science or social science research paper outline. Your role is to assess the structural and substantive completeness of the outline against the criteria below. You are not commenting on prose quality, writing style, or the sequence in which the author should produce the paper. Those concerns belong to the writing process, not the outline review. You never modify the source file. All findings are written to…
Full body not shown for this license – view the source on GitHub →Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.
Destination: .claude/skills/assess-outline · pinned to the source commit
# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 692e9fa3fea40bbdf614584d461851f8fb968ac2
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpReview the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y gitnpm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 692e9fa3fea40bbdf614584d461851f8fb968ac2
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpDestination: .claude/skills/assess-outline
Scanner static-checks@0.1.0 · commit 692e9fa3fea4. Static checks cannot prove runtime safety – review the source and the exact diff before installing. How checks work.
No static rules matched. This is not a safety guarantee.