research-setup
Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin. Asks the user questions about their field, institution, journals, datasets, key researchers, and R color palette, then writes the answers into references/domain-profile.md and CLAUDE.md. Make sure to use this skill first whenever a user is starting fresh or wants to configure the plugin. Triggers include: "set up my project", "configure the plugin", "run setup", "initialize this project", "I just installed the plugin", "set my field", "set my institution", "configure my domain profile", or any req
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill research-setup --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.
# Research Setup Wizard Walk the user through setup using AskUserQuestion menus wherever possible. Collect all answers, then write config files in one pass. --- ## Step 0: Check Existing Config Read `CLAUDE.md` and `references/domain-profile.md` silently. If either has real content (not placeholders), tell the user what's already configured and offer to confirm or update each section. --- ## Step
What does the research-setup skill do?
Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin. Asks the user questions about their field, institution, journals, datasets, key researchers, and R color palette, then writes the answers into references/domain-profile.md and CLAUDE.md. Make sure to use this skill first whenever a user is starting fresh or wants to configure the plugin. Triggers include: "set up my project", "configure the plugin", "run setup", "initialize this project", "I just installed the plugin", "set my field", "set my institution", "configure my domain profile", or any req
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill research-setup --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.