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A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for…
Install Govern Research Design
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-research-design -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design .claude/skills/govern-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 "govern-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design into .claude/skills/govern-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-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 govern-research-design -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design .agents/skills/govern-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 "govern-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design into .agents/skills/govern-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 govern-research-design -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design .cursor/skills/govern-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 "govern-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design into .cursor/skills/govern-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-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 govern-research-design -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design .gemini/skills/govern-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 "govern-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design into .gemini/skills/govern-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 govern-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 govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design .github/skills/govern-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 "govern-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design into .github/skills/govern-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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 govern-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 govern-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/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design .opencode/skills/govern-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 "govern-research-design" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design into .opencode/skills/govern-research-design/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "govern-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
govern-research-design- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.7k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 665 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 Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for…
- Defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, (a) Comparative / causal…, (b) Qualitative /… and (c) Mixed methods, plus 6 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions
What it does
Govern Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions, qualitative & comparative-historical case logic, mixed methods, and the measurement of governance/institutions. Governance judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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 Governance: An International Journal of Policy
- Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions
- Qualitative & comparative-historical case logic
- The measurement of governance/institutions
Example prompts
- “/govern-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
Govern Research Design loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 107 tokens; SKILL.md has 665 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). 665 words, ~1,677 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/govern-research-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- govern-research-design
- description
- Use when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions, qualitative & comparative-historical case logic, mixed methods, and the measurement of governance/institutions. Governance judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Research Design (govern-research-design)
Governance welcomes any rigorous approach but is demanding about each. The design must credibly
connect the argument (govern-theory-building) to comparative/institutional evidence and rule out the
strongest rival institutional explanation. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your
work. (For the conceptual contribution, this is the empirical-design variant.)
When to trigger
- Specifying identification, case selection, or comparative design
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, country selection, or an institutional confound
- Choosing governance/institutions measures (V-Dem, QoG, WGI, etc.) and defending them
- Justifying why the design adjudicates the rival account from
govern-literature-positioning
(a) Comparative / causal designs (governance & institutions)
- Identification first. State the estimand and the assumptions that license a causal reading (parallel trends, exclusion, continuity, ignorability). Defend them; don't assert them.
- Reform DiD / event study. When a reform rolls out across units/countries over time, use modern staggered-adoption estimators (Callaway–Sant'Anna, Sun–Abraham, de Chaisemartin–D'Haultfœuille, Borusyak et al.) — not naive TWFE, which is biased under heterogeneous/dynamic effects. Show pre-trends and event-study leads/lags.
- Cross-national panels. Justify fixed effects (country, year), the level of clustering, and what is identified off within-country vs. between-country variation.
- IV / RDD where applicable. IV: first-stage strength, exclusion, weak-IV-robust inference. RDD (e.g., electoral or threshold-based reform rules): density/manipulation tests, bandwidth robustness.
(b) Qualitative / comparative-historical
- Case selection by design logic (most/least likely, typical, deviant, paired comparison) — not convenience. Say what each case is a case of, and how the selection adjudicates the argument.
- Process tracing with explicit tests (hoop, smoking-gun, straw-in-the-wind, doubly-decisive); state what evidence would have disconfirmed the argument in each case.
- QCA where used. Justify calibration of set membership, the truth table, and consistency/coverage thresholds; report and interpret limited diversity, not just the solution formula.
- Source transparency. Archives, interviews, fieldnotes — plan how they will be documented and cited
(see
govern-transparency-and-data).
(c) Mixed methods
- State the integration logic up front: does the qualitative work generate, test, or explain the quantitative result (or vice versa)? Sequencing and the role of each strand must be deliberate.
- Show where the strands converge and own where they diverge — divergence is informative, not a flaw to bury.
(d) Measuring governance & institutions (caveats)
- V-Dem, QoG, WGI, Bertelsmann, ICRG, etc. are estimates, not facts. Report the version, the construct each index actually captures, and the measurement model's uncertainty (e.g., V-Dem posterior credible intervals). Do not treat composite indices as ground truth.
- WGI in particular aggregates perceptions and is endogenous to outcomes — flag this when it sits near the dependent or treatment variable.
- Show results are not an artifact of one index: triangulate across measures where the concept allows.
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The rival-institutional adjudication move (Governance-specific)
For the strongest rival institutional explanation, write one sentence: "If the rival were true rather than my argument, the cases/data would look like ___; instead they look like ___." A design that cannot distinguish your account of governing from the leading institutional alternative has not yet identified the contribution.
Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
Estimate and audit the design, don't only describe it. Full map:
execution-with-mcp. Governance is public administration and institutions research — comparative and causal designs on governance reforms; the chain serves its quantitative-causal lane, while comparative-historical / qualitative work uses its own standards.
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
- Naive TWFE on a staggered reform; clustering below the level of treatment assignment
- "Causal" language on a cross-national correlation the design only supports as association
- Convenience country selection dressed up as theory-driven case logic
- Treating V-Dem/WGI/QoG scores as exact, ignoring index uncertainty and construct mismatch
- A design that cannot rule out the leading rival institutional account
Output format
【Mode】comparative-causal / qualitative / comparative-historical / mixed
【Estimand or claim】what is being identified/shown
【Key assumption(s)】and how each is defended
【Governance measures】index + version + uncertainty/construct caveat
【Rival ruled out】the rival-institutional adjudication sentence
【Robustness/sensitivity】planned checks
【Next】govern-data-analysisSupplementary resources
../../resources/external_tools.md— staggered-DiD/IV/RDD packages, QCA/process-tracing tools, governance indices../../resources/official-source-map.md— pre-analysis plan as supplementary material; transparency notes
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Files
Just SKILL.md in Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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What does Govern Research Design do?
A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for…. Govern Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions, qualitative & comparative-historical case logic, mixed methods, and the measurement of governance/institutions.
When should I use Govern Research Design?
Govern Research Design fits situations like: defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy; institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions; qualitative & comparative-historical case logic; the measurement of governance/institutions.
How do I install Govern Research Design in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-research-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/govern-research-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Govern Research Design in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-research-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/govern-research-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Govern 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 govern-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/govern-research-design, .gemini/skills/govern-research-design, .github/skills/govern-research-design and .opencode/skills/govern-research-design in your project.
What does Govern Research Design need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Govern Research Design is instructions for the agent only.
Does Govern 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 Govern 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 Govern Research Design use?
Govern 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 Govern Research Design use?
About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k 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 Govern Research Design?
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Who maintains Govern 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.