Audit economic analysis outputs (fiscal briefings, macro briefings, market research, longlists, and other quantitative economic documents) against methodology standards, academic literature, and…

Custom licenceAuto-check: notesMarketing & SEO

Install Econ Audit

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill econ-audit -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills econ-audit --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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/econ-audit .claude/skills/econ-audit && 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
econ-audit
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~4.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
2,095 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Audit economic analysis outputs (fiscal briefings, macro briefings, market research, longlists, and other quantitative economic documents) against methodology standards, academic literature, and…

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify the document → Run all applicable checks (silent) → Score and rank → …
  • Tasks that involve Market research
  • SKILL.md covers Arguments, Check categories, Instructions and Output formats, plus 6 more sections
  • Calls git; reaches github.com

What it does

Econ Audit is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Audit economic analysis outputs (fiscal briefings, macro briefings, market research, longlists, and other quantitative economic documents) against methodology standards, academic literature, and common errors. Runs structured checks across core categories including counterfactual, additionality, discounting, double counting, distributional analysis, Aqua Book RIGOUR, and Flyvbjerg-style strategic misrepresentation detection. Returns a RAG scorecard with issues ranked by severity.

Its SKILL.md is about 4.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Market research and Pricing strategy. 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

  • Tasks that involve Market research
  • Tasks that involve Pricing strategy

Example prompts

  • “/econ-audit”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Skill

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify the document
  2. Run all applicable checks (silent)
  3. Score and rank
  4. Fix plan (if --fix)
  5. Write the output

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 these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Bash
    • Read
    • Write
    • Glob
    • Grep
    • AskUserQuestion
    • Skill

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git

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

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • github.com

    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

Econ Audit loads about 4.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 124 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,095 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~124
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4.9k

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: notes

The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.

  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Skill

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 2,095 words (~4,866 tokens).

“Only stop to ask the user when: the document type is unrecognised, or fix confirmation is needed under --fix mode. Never stop to ask about: which checks to run (all applicable ones), grading methodology, or output filename.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
econ-audit
allowed-tools
Bash, Read, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Skill

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/econ-audit of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • SKILL.tmpl

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Econ Audit

What does Econ Audit do?

Audit economic analysis outputs (fiscal briefings, macro briefings, market research, longlists, and other quantitative economic documents) against methodology standards, academic literature, and…. Econ Audit is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Audit economic analysis outputs (fiscal briefings, macro briefings, market research, longlists, and other quantitative economic documents) against methodology standards, academic literature, and common errors.

When should I use Econ Audit?

Econ Audit fits situations like: tasks that involve Market research; tasks that involve Pricing strategy.

How do I install Econ Audit in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill econ-audit -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/econ-audit in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/econ-audit in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Econ Audit in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill econ-audit -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/econ-audit in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/econ-audit in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Econ Audit 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 econ-audit -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/econ-audit, .gemini/skills/econ-audit, .github/skills/econ-audit and .opencode/skills/econ-audit in your project.

What does Econ Audit need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Econ Audit needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git). Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Read, Write, Glob, Grep, AskUserQuestion, Skill.

Does Econ Audit access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: github.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Econ Audit safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (pre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: bash)), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Econ Audit use?

Econ Audit 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 Econ Audit use?

About 4.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 19k 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 Econ Audit?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Econ Audit: Competitor Comparison Matrix (firecrawl/web-agent, 1.2k stars), Amazon Product Research (nexscope-ai/Amazon-Skills, 741 stars), Sellersprite Amazon Research (liangdabiao/amazon-sorftime-research-MCP-skill, 953 stars) and Customer Research (Nexus-JPF/note-companion, 870 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Econ Audit?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,542 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.