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research-init

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By brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (GitHub) · research · 5,016 stars · scanned at commit 8684584

Scaffold a new research project with full reproducibility infrastructure in R and/or Python. Creates directory structure, pipeline stubs (targets/Snakemake), environment lockfiles (renv/uv), documentation templates (codebook, decision log, pre-registration, Cornell README), Quarto manuscript template, and proper .gitignore. Can wrap existing data in gold-standard structure. Use when the user says "new project," "scaffold," "start a study," "set up a project," "I have data and need to organize i…

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'research-init' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'research-init' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named research-init already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/61-phdemotions-research-methods/skills/research-init' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/61-phdemotions-research-methods/skills/research-init' ~/.agents/skills/'research-init' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'research-init' ~/.claude/skills/'research-init' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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