grad-school-guide
Practical advice for thriving in PhD programs and academic research
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill grad-school-guide --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.
# Graduate School Research Guide ## Overview Graduate school -- particularly a PhD program -- is a multi-year commitment that demands not only technical skills but also effective research methodology, advisor management, paper writing strategies, and career planning. The difference between thriving and merely surviving often comes down to having the right mental models and practical frameworks for
What does the grad-school-guide skill do?
Practical advice for thriving in PhD programs and academic research
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill grad-school-guide --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.