worlddev-robustness
Use when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a World Development (WD) manuscript. Organizes checks by threat; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-robustness --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.
# Robustness & Trustworthiness (worlddev-robustness) ## When to trigger - The headline result moves under plausible alternative specifications - A referee suspects the finding is driven by one region, one wave, or one measurement choice - Development data are messy (recall error, measurement in informal economies, attrition) and this is unaddressed - A qualitative finding rests on a few vivid quotes with no account of disconfirming evidence - The robustness section is a mechanical dump of appendix tables organized by table, not by threat ## Organize by threat, not by table The single biggest WD robustness failure is a wall of appendix tables with no logic. A WD referee — often from a different discipline than the author — wants to see that you **identified the threats to your specific claim and addressed each one**. Structure the robustness work as a short list of named threats, each with the check that retires it and a one-line verdict. For each threat: *what would break the claim, what test isolates it, what the test shows.* ### Quantitative threat map | Threat | Check | |--------|-------| | Specification dependence | Add/drop controls in a disciplined sequence (Oster-style δ/bou
- When to trigger
- Organize by threat, not by table
- Quantitative threat map
- Qualitative trustworthiness map
- Mixed-methods
- Development-specific traps WD referees catch
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the worlddev-robustness skill do?
Use when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a World Development (WD) manuscript. Organizes checks by threat; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill worlddev-robustness --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/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 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.