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search-procedures

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

Model how a specification universe is actually walked, rather than assuming it is enumerated. Implements the search procedures a p-hacker or a pressured agent uses (first-significant stopping, random trial within a budget, greedy coordinate descent from the pre-registered analysis, random hill-climbing, and the two-stage split-sample walk with an optional continuation rule, after Adda, Decker and Ottaviani 2020), replays each on null data to measure its false-positive rate and the inflation of …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'search-procedures' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'search-procedures' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named search-procedures 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '8684584e7d1127940f018157d2c579974fae8f79' -- 'skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/09-search-procedures' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/09-search-procedures' ~/.agents/skills/'search-procedures' && 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/'search-procedures' ~/.claude/skills/'search-procedures' (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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