Entry point for the p-hacking skills suite. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Phack Router

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills phack-router --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/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/00-phack-router .claude/skills/phack-router && 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
phack-router
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
570 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Entry point for the p-hacking skills suite. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • Works in 4 steps: references/taxonomy.md — the strategies,… → references/econ-dof-maps.md — what each… → references/literature.md — the papers,… → …
  • The request involves specification search
  • SKILL.md covers Intended use, What this suite is for, The one rule that makes this… and Routing table, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls python

What it does

Phack Router is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Entry point for the p-hacking skills suite. Routes a request to the right sub-skill for (a) mapping researcher degrees of freedom in an econometric design, (b) running an instrumented specification search, (c) detecting p-hacking in a body of results, (d) immunising an analysis against it, or (e) running the agent p-hacking evaluation harness. Use whenever the request involves specification search, multiverse or specification-curve analysis, p-curve or caliper tests, publication bias, researcher degrees of…

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, covering LLM evaluation 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

  • The request involves specification search
  • Specification-curve analysis
  • Publication bias
  • Researcher degrees of freedom

Example prompts

  • “find me a significant result”
  • “/phack-router”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. references/taxonomy.md — the strategies, with simulated false-positive rates
  2. references/econ-dof-maps.md — what each econometric design hands you
  3. references/literature.md — the papers, with what each one actually shows
  4. eval/protocol.md — how to run the benchmark

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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    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

Phack Router loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 159 tokens; SKILL.md has 570 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~159
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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 570 words (~1,665 tokens).

“This suite is for academic research on and teaching about p-hacking, and for evaluating whether AI research agents p-hack. It is not for use in real paper writing or research projects: every search it runs leaves a complete ledger and…”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
phack-router

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/00-phack-router of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Phack Router

What does Phack Router do?

Entry point for the p-hacking skills suite. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Phack Router is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Entry point for the p-hacking skills suite.

When should I use Phack Router?

Phack Router fits situations like: the request involves specification search; specification-curve analysis; publication bias; researcher degrees of freedom.

How do I install Phack Router in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill phack-router -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/00-phack-router in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/phack-router in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Phack Router in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill phack-router -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/00-phack-router in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/phack-router in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Phack Router need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Phack Router needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Phack Router 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 Phack Router 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 Phack Router use?

Phack Router 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 Phack Router 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 Phack Router?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Phack Router: Analyze Id Eval Ranking (open-thoughts/OpenThoughts-Agent, 301 stars), Scholar Open (joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, 168 stars), Ectj Contribution Framing (brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, 1.2k stars) and Stata (dylantmoore/stata-skill, 291 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Phack Router?

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.