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forking-paths

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

Map the garden of forking paths for a concrete econometric design and turn it into a machine-readable design card that the specification-search engine can walk. Use when asked how many defensible analyses a dataset or research design admits, to enumerate researcher degrees of freedom for a specific DiD, IV, RDD, staggered-adoption, panel or cross-sectional study, to build or validate a design card, to encode a pre-registered specification, or to size a multiverse before running it.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'forking-paths' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'forking-paths' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named forking-paths 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/02-forking-paths' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/02-forking-paths' ~/.agents/skills/'forking-paths' && 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/'forking-paths' ~/.claude/skills/'forking-paths' (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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