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narrative-laundering

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

Audit how an empirical write-up presents its analytical choices, and detect the rhetorical moves that convert a specification search into an apparently confirmatory finding. Covers HARKing, robustness theatre, selective disclosure, the vanishing pilot study, and estimator-choice narratives. Use when reviewing a paper or an agent-produced report for undisclosed search, refereeing an empirical manuscript, or scoring whether an agent disclosed the specification search it actually ran.

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/'narrative-laundering' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'narrative-laundering' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named narrative-laundering 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/05-narrative-laundering' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/05-narrative-laundering' ~/.agents/skills/'narrative-laundering' && 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/'narrative-laundering' ~/.claude/skills/'narrative-laundering' (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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