Legal Abductive Reasoning
THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese
Legal abductive reasoning skill for generating and evaluating the most reasonable explanatory hypotheses when evidence is incomplete or facts are ambiguous.
Assesses a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide.
Install Assess Outline
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills assess-outline --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ 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/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline .claude/skills/assess-outline && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "assess-outline" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline into .claude/skills/assess-outline/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "assess-outline", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outlineType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills assess-outline --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline .agents/skills/assess-outline && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "assess-outline" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline into .agents/skills/assess-outline/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "assess-outline", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills assess-outline --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline .cursor/skills/assess-outline && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "assess-outline" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline into .cursor/skills/assess-outline/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "assess-outline", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills assess-outline --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline .gemini/skills/assess-outline && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "assess-outline" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline into .gemini/skills/assess-outline/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "assess-outline", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills assess-outlineInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline .github/skills/assess-outline && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "assess-outline" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline into .github/skills/assess-outline/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "assess-outline", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills assess-outline --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline .opencode/skills/assess-outline && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "assess-outline" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline into .opencode/skills/assess-outline/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "assess-outline", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
assess-outline- GitHub stars
- 4.6k
- Token cost
- ~2.9k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,242 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 383
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Assesses a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide.
- Works in 9 steps: Research Question and Motivation → Contributions to Existing Literature → Hypotheses and Testable Implications → …
- Asked to assess
- SKILL.md covers Input Arguments, Step-by-Step Workflow, Assessment Criteria and Output Report Format, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Assess Outline is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Assesses a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide. Evaluates the abstract and section outline for: research question clarity, stated contributions, hypotheses and testable implications, data description, planned results and inferential approach, and robustness checks. Detects causal papers from the abstract and conditionally assesses identification strategy only when causal framing is present. Produces a structured markdown report with…
Its SKILL.md is about 2.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Hypothesis generation and Econometrics and empirical research. 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
- Asked to assess
- Check a paper outline
- Abstract-and-outline
- Research plan in a .qmd file
Example prompts
- “Use the assess-outline skill to assess a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide”
- “/assess-outline”
Workflow steps
9 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Research Question and Motivation
- Contributions to Existing Literature
- Hypotheses and Testable Implications
- Data
- Results and Inferential Approach
- Robustness and Sensitivity
- Causal Identification Strategy (Assessed only if CAUSAL = TRUE)
- Transparency and Replication
- Section Structure and Ordering
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 markdown).
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
Assess Outline loads about 2.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 176 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,242 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 1,242 words (~2,917 tokens).
“You are an expert methodologist and research mentor evaluating a political science or social science research paper outline. Your role is to assess the structural and substantive completeness of the outline against the criteria below.”
- name
- assess-outline
- metadata.author
- Christopher T. Kenny
- metadata.version
- 1
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
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| Assess Outline this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Legal Abductive ReasoningTHUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese | 874 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Hypogenicdavila7/claude-code-templates | 33k | 10 repos | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Designing Experimentsforyourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills | 3.6k | — | ~600 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Hypothesis Generationspacering-net/codeg | 3.9k | 14 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Nature Paper CardYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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What does Assess Outline do?
Assesses a research paper outline (.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide. Assess Outline is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.qmd file) against structured criteria from Kosuke Imai's empirical research guide.
When should I use Assess Outline?
Assess Outline fits situations like: asked to assess; check a paper outline; abstract-and-outline; research plan in a .qmd file.
How do I install Assess Outline in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/assess-outline in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Assess Outline in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill assess-outline -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/22-christopherkenny-skills/skills/assess-outline in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/assess-outline in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Assess Outline 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 assess-outline -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/assess-outline, .gemini/skills/assess-outline, .github/skills/assess-outline and .opencode/skills/assess-outline in your project.
What does Assess Outline need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Assess Outline is instructions for the agent only.
Does Assess Outline 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 Assess Outline 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 Assess Outline use?
Assess Outline 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 Assess Outline 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 Assess Outline?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Assess Outline: Legal Abductive Reasoning (THUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese, 874 stars), Hypogenic (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars), Designing Experiments (foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills, 3.6k stars) and Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Assess Outline?
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.