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Agent skill
Commres Research Design
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability.
Install Commres Research Design
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-research-design --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/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design .claude/skills/commres-research-design && 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 "commres-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design into .claude/skills/commres-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "commres-research-design", 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-designType 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-research-design --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design .agents/skills/commres-research-design && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "commres-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design into .agents/skills/commres-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "commres-research-design", 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-research-design --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design .cursor/skills/commres-research-design && 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 "commres-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design into .cursor/skills/commres-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "commres-research-design", 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design--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/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-research-design --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design .gemini/skills/commres-research-design && 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 "commres-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design into .gemini/skills/commres-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "commres-research-design", 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-research-designInstalls 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design .github/skills/commres-research-design && 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 "commres-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design into .github/skills/commres-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "commres-research-design", 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -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/Awesome-Journal-Skills commres-research-design --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design .opencode/skills/commres-research-design && 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 "commres-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design into .opencode/skills/commres-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "commres-research-design", 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
commres-research-design- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.8k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 743 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability.
- Defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online)
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Experiments (lab / online /…, Surveys / panels and Content analysis, plus 8 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Content analysis with intercoder reliability
What it does
Commres Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability. CR is quantitative and demanding about identification, measurement, and confound control. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. ｜ 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online)
- Content analysis with intercoder reliability
Example prompts
- “/commres-research-design”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. 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.
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
Commres Research Design loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 743 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
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 743 words, ~1,821 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/commres-research-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- commres-research-design
- description
- Use when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability. CR is quantitative and demanding about identification, measurement, and confound control. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Research Design (commres-research-design)
CR is a quantitative journal and demanding about each design. The design must credibly connect the
hypotheses (commres-theory-building) to evidence and defeat the strongest rival explanation. This
skill is mode-aware — pick the section that matches your study and defend it on social-science terms.
When to trigger
- Specifying an experiment, panel survey, or content-analysis protocol
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, sampling, coding reliability, validity, or a confound
- Preparing a preregistration / pre-analysis plan (note it in the cover letter)
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from
commres-literature-positioning
Experiments (lab / online / survey-embedded)
- Preregister design and primary analyses; report a-priori power / MDE; pre-specify subgroups.
- Stimulus sampling: treat messages as a sample, not a fixture — multiple exemplars per condition; model message as a random factor so the feature effect is not one text's idiosyncrasy.
- Manipulation and attention checks; treatment realism; report and model attrition.
- Pre-specify the mediation/moderation test that operationalizes H2/H3; for causal mediation, prefer manipulating the mediator or a measurement-of-mediation design with stated assumptions.
- Ethics/IRB and informed consent; debrief where deception is used.
Surveys / panels
- Sampling frame, mode, and generalization claims; weighting where appropriate.
- Validated multi-item measures; report reliability (alpha/omega) and, ideally, a CFA/measurement model; guard against common-method variance (procedural and statistical remedies).
- For process claims, prefer panel (lagged) or experimental leverage — cross-sectional mediation cannot license a temporal/causal story; say so plainly if you are cross-sectional.
Content analysis
- A documented codebook; trained coders; report intercoder reliability (Krippendorff's alpha or equivalent) on an adequate subsample, and the unit of analysis.
- Justify text sampling (timeframe, sources); establish construct validity of categories, not just reliability — reliable coding of the wrong construct is still wrong.
Computational / text-as-data (when hypothesis-testing)
- Validate automated measures against human-coded gold-standard samples; report agreement.
- Document model/version, hyperparameters, seeds; report stability; do not treat outputs as ground truth.
The adjudication test (CR-specific)
For the single strongest rival explanation, write one sentence: "If the rival were true rather than my hypothesis, the data would look like ___; instead they look like ___." If you cannot, the design does not yet identify the contribution.
Reviewer-pushback patterns and the CR-specific fix
| Reviewer objection | Why it lands at CR | Design-stage fix |
|---|---|---|
| "Single-message confound" | one stimulus cannot separate the message feature from the text | sample multiple messages per condition; model message as a random factor |
| "Measurement validity unclear" | a scale or coded category may not be the construct | report CFA / construct validity, not just reliability |
| "Common-method variance" | same-survey predictor and outcome inflate the path | procedural separation + a statistical CMV check |
| "Cross-sectional process claim" | mediation on one wave cannot license a causal story | move to an experiment/panel, or hedge the claim |
| "Effect without mechanism" | a main effect alone does not advance theory | measure and pre-specify the mediator/moderator before collection |
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Worked micro-example: framing survey-experiment design (illustrative)
A study claims gain- vs. loss-framed vaccine messages change intention via perceived response-efficacy, moderated by prior knowledge. A CR-defensible design: 2 (frame) × 3 (message exemplars per frame) factorial so the frame effect is estimated across six texts — defeating the single-message confound. Validated multi-item efficacy and intention scales (report alpha + a CFA), target N sized to the registered MDE, preregister the moderated-mediation model (frame → response-efficacy → intention, moderated by knowledge) with bootstrap CIs, plus an attention check. The adjudication sentence: if "any health message moves intention" were true, the gain/loss contrast would be null while overall intention rose; instead the contrast runs through efficacy and only for low-knowledge audiences — advancing framing theory rather than re-documenting persuasion.
Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
Estimate and audit the design, don't only describe it. Full map:
execution-with-mcp. Communication Research is experiment- and survey-heavy; emphasize randomization inference, mediation done right, and family-wise corrections.
detect_design→recommend→ fit withas_handle=true→audit_result.- Observational causal claims: staggered DiD (
callaway_santanna/sun_abraham+bacon_decomposition+honest_did_from_result); IV (effective_f_test+anderson_rubin_ci); RDD (rdrobust+mccrary_test). - Experiments: randomization-based inference,
romano_wolffor many-outcome family-wise control, andmediatefor mediation (not naive controlling-away). - Sensitivity:
oster_delta/sensemakrfor observational claims.
Report the effect size in interpretable units; route the full battery to the appendix/supplement. A run end-to-end (synthetic data, real returns) is in the JF execution walkthrough.
Anti-patterns
- Causal language on a cross-sectional survey that only supports association
- Content analysis with no reported intercoder reliability or an unstated unit of analysis
- A single-message stimulus carrying a claim about a message feature
- Scales used with no reliability/validity evidence; ignoring common-method variance
- A design that cannot distinguish your hypothesis from the leading alternative
Output format
【Mode】experiment / survey-panel / content-analysis / computational
【Estimand or claim】what is being identified/tested
【Key assumption(s)】and how each is defended (incl. reliability/validity, CMV)
【Rival ruled out】the adjudication sentence
【Mediation/moderation】design supports the causal ordering? [Y/N]
【Robustness/sensitivity】planned checks
【Next】commres-data-analysisSupplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— design, reliability, SEM, and text-as-data packages../../resources/official-source-map.md— preregistration and APA reporting notes
© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Commres Research Design
What does Commres Research Design do?
A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability. Commres Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online), panel surveys, and content analysis with intercoder reliability.
When should I use Commres Research Design?
Commres Research Design fits situations like: defending the research design of a Communication Research (CR) manuscript — experiments (lab/online); content analysis with intercoder reliability.
How do I install Commres Research Design in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/commres-research-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Commres Research Design in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Communication-Research-Skills/skills/commres-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/commres-research-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Commres Research Design 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/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill commres-research-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/commres-research-design, .gemini/skills/commres-research-design, .github/skills/commres-research-design and .opencode/skills/commres-research-design in your project.
What does Commres Research Design need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Commres Research Design is instructions for the agent only.
Does Commres Research Design 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 Commres Research Design 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 Commres Research Design use?
Commres Research Design is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Commres Research Design use?
About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.3k 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 Commres Research Design?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Commres Research Design: Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars), Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars) and Content Research Writer (weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Commres Research Design?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.