Thoroughly verify all code, tables, figures, modeling decisions, and quantitative claims in an academic paper against its source R scripts and output files.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Academic Paper Verify

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-verify -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills academic-paper-verify --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/paper_verification .claude/skills/academic-paper-verify && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
academic-paper-verify
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~2.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,251 words
Files
4
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Thoroughly verify all code, tables, figures, modeling decisions, and quantitative claims in an academic paper against its source R scripts and output files.

  • Works in 6 steps: Discovery → Table Audit → Inline Claims Audit → …
  • You need to audit
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Before You Start, Phase 1: Discovery and Phase 2: Table Audit, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Academic Paper Verify is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Thoroughly verify all code, tables, figures, modeling decisions, and quantitative claims in an academic paper against its source R scripts and output files. Use this skill whenever you need to audit, replicate, or verify an academic research paper - including cross-checking LaTeX tables against R output, validating econometric modeling choices, ensuring sample sizes are consistent, building a verification manifest, and running automated replication tests. Trigger this skill for any mention of: paper verification…

Its SKILL.md is about 2.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files (for example `common-pitfalls.md`, `phase-details.md` and `replication-script-template.md`).

It sits in Research & Science, covering LaTeX, Experimental design and Econometrics and empirical research. It works with LaTeX. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • You need to audit
  • Verify an academic research paper - including cross-checking LaTeX tables against R output
  • Validating econometric modeling choices
  • Ensuring sample sizes are consistent

Example prompts

  • “does the paper match the code.”
  • “/academic-paper-verify”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Discovery
  2. Table Audit
  3. Inline Claims Audit
  4. Code Review
  5. Build Verification Manifest
  6. Replication Test Suite

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Academic Paper Verify loads about 2.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 178 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,251 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~178
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.9k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,251 words (~2,910 tokens).

“A systematic skill for verifying the integrity and replicability of an academic research paper. This covers everything from individual coefficient checks to full end-to-end replication.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
academic-paper-verify

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files in skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/paper_verification of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • common-pitfalls.md
  • phase-details.md
  • replication-script-template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Academic Paper Verify

What does Academic Paper Verify do?

Thoroughly verify all code, tables, figures, modeling decisions, and quantitative claims in an academic paper against its source R scripts and output files. Academic Paper Verify is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Thoroughly verify all code, tables, figures, modeling decisions, and quantitative claims in an academic paper against its source R scripts and output files.

When should I use Academic Paper Verify?

Academic Paper Verify fits situations like: you need to audit; verify an academic research paper - including cross-checking LaTeX tables against R output; validating econometric modeling choices; ensuring sample sizes are consistent.

How do I install Academic Paper Verify in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-verify -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/paper_verification in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/academic-paper-verify in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Academic Paper Verify in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-verify -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/27-dariia-m-my_claude_skills/paper_verification in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/academic-paper-verify in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Academic Paper Verify in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill academic-paper-verify -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/academic-paper-verify, .gemini/skills/academic-paper-verify, .github/skills/academic-paper-verify and .opencode/skills/academic-paper-verify in your project.

What does Academic Paper Verify need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Academic Paper Verify is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Academic Paper Verify access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Academic Paper Verify safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Academic Paper Verify use?

Academic Paper Verify has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Academic Paper Verify use?

About 2.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Academic Paper Verify?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Academic Paper Verify: Denario (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars), Experimental Design (Oleafly/Oleafly, 212 stars), Scientific Brainstorming (Oleafly/Oleafly, 212 stars) and Academic Research (voidful/academic-skills, 135 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Academic Paper Verify?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.