Brainstorming
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Brainstorm a longlist of benefits and costs for a project. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Install Longlist
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill longlist -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills longlist --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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist .claude/skills/longlist && 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 "longlist" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist into .claude/skills/longlist/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "longlist", 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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlistType 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 longlist -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills longlist --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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist .agents/skills/longlist && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "longlist" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist into .agents/skills/longlist/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "longlist", 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 longlist -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills longlist --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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist .cursor/skills/longlist && 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 "longlist" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist into .cursor/skills/longlist/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "longlist", 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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist--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 longlist -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills longlist --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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist .gemini/skills/longlist && 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 "longlist" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist into .gemini/skills/longlist/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "longlist", 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 longlistInstalls 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 longlist -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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist .github/skills/longlist && 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 "longlist" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist into .github/skills/longlist/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "longlist", 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 longlist -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 longlist --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/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist .opencode/skills/longlist && 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 "longlist" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist into .opencode/skills/longlist/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "longlist", 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
longlist- GitHub stars
- 4.5k
- Token cost
- ~10k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 4,716 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 383
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Brainstorm a longlist of benefits and costs for a project. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
- Works in 5 steps: Get project description, counterfactual,… → Brainstorm internally (do NOT narrate to… → Apply filters before tabulating → …
- Tasks that involve Brainstorming
- SKILL.md covers Arguments, Supported frameworks, Instructions and Output formats, plus 6 more sections
- Calls git; reaches github.com
What it does
Longlist is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Brainstorm a longlist of benefits and costs for a project. Outputs two clean tables (benefits and costs), each with materiality (H/M/L), a cash flow tag (cash in / cash out / non-cash), a quantification method, and a monetisation method. Supports HMT Green Book, EU Better Regulation Guidelines, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the Victorian Treasury High Value High Risk (HVHR) framework.
Its SKILL.md is about 10k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file.
It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Brainstorming. 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 Brainstorming
Example prompts
- “/longlist”
Requirements
- Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, Glob, AskUserQuestion, Skill
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Get project description, counterfactual, and sponsor
- Brainstorm internally (do NOT narrate to the user)
- Apply filters before tabulating
- Build the two tables
- 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:
BashReadWriteGlobAskUserQuestionSkill
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
Also links to:
gov.uk
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
Longlist loads about 10k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 102 tokens; SKILL.md has 4,716 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: 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, 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 4,716 words (~9,976 tokens).
“Only stop to ask the user when: the project description, counterfactual, or sponsor is missing. Never stop to ask about: sector detection, lens choice, formatting, table layout, output filename, or which methods to use. Pick sensible defaults and keep moving.”
- name
- longlist
- allowed-tools
- Bash, Read, Write, Glob, AskUserQuestion, Skill
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
- SKILL.md
- SKILL.tmpl
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
Compare with similar skills
Longlist next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longlist this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~10k | Automated safety check: Notes | Custom licence | |
| Brainstormingxpinjection/test-driven-spring-boot | 112 | 54 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Typesafe AIOpenAgentsInc/openagents | 455 | 9 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Yao Meta Skillyaojingang/yao-meta-skill | 2.7k | — | ~768 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Trellis StartROYIANS/foliq-print-template-designer | 135 | 6 repos | ~646 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Brainstorming Before BuildingjnMetaCode/superpowers-zh | 8.3k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Longlist
What does Longlist do?
Brainstorm a longlist of benefits and costs for a project. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Longlist is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Brainstorm a longlist of benefits and costs for a project.
When should I use Longlist?
Longlist fits situations like: tasks that involve Brainstorming.
How do I install Longlist in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill longlist -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/longlist in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Longlist in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill longlist -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/58-charlescoverdale-econstack/longlist in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/longlist in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Longlist 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 longlist -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/longlist, .gemini/skills/longlist, .github/skills/longlist and .opencode/skills/longlist in your project.
What does Longlist need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Longlist needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git). Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash, Read, Write, Glob, AskUserQuestion, Skill.
Does Longlist access the network?
SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: github.com; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. As links in the text: gov.uk. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Longlist 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 Longlist use?
Longlist 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 Longlist use?
About 10k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 40k 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 Longlist?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Longlist: Brainstorming (xpinjection/test-driven-spring-boot, 112 stars), Typesafe AI (OpenAgentsInc/openagents, 455 stars), Yao Meta Skill (yaojingang/yao-meta-skill, 2.7k stars) and Trellis Start (ROYIANS/foliq-print-template-designer, 135 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Longlist?
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.