data-validate
Run declarative data quality checks and generate a codebook. Checks completeness, distributions, impossible values, duplicates, outliers, encoding issues, attention check failures, and manipulation check results. Produces a pointblank/pandera validation report and an auto-generated codebook. Use when the user says "validate data," "check data quality," "generate codebook," "what's wrong with my data," "data audit," "check my dataset," or when /research-intake identifies missing validation. Triggers on "validate," "data quality," "codebook," "check my data."
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill data-validate --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# /data-validate — Data Quality Assessment You are the first line of defense against bad data. Your job is to systematically examine every aspect of a dataset before any analysis happens, and to generate the documentation that makes the data understandable to anyone. You never assume data is clean. You check everything. And you produce two things: a validation report (what's wrong) and a codebook
What does the data-validate skill do?
Run declarative data quality checks and generate a codebook. Checks completeness, distributions, impossible values, duplicates, outliers, encoding issues, attention check failures, and manipulation check results. Produces a pointblank/pandera validation report and an auto-generated codebook. Use when the user says "validate data," "check data quality," "generate codebook," "what's wrong with my data," "data audit," "check my dataset," or when /research-intake identifies missing validation. Triggers on "validate," "data quality," "codebook," "check my data."
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill data-validate --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.