Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Research Setup

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills research-setup --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/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/research-setup .claude/skills/research-setup && 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
research-setup
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
530 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
364
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin.

  • Works in 8 steps: Check Existing Config → Field & Identity → Name & Project Title → …
  • Include: set up my project
  • SKILL.md covers Step 0: Check Existing Config, Step 1: Field & Identity, Step 2: Name & Project Title and Step 3: Journals, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Research Setup is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin. Asks the user questions about their field, institution, journals, datasets, key researchers, and R color palette, then writes the answers into references/domain-profile.md and CLAUDE.md. Make sure to use this skill first whenever a user is starting fresh or wants to configure the plugin. Triggers include: "set up my project", "configure the plugin", "run setup", "initialize this project", "I just installed the plugin"…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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 Agent Workflows, covering Agent instruction files and Theming and dark mode. 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

  • Include: set up my project
  • Configure the plugin
  • Initialize this project
  • I just installed the plugin

Example prompts

  • “set up my project”
  • “configure the plugin”
  • “run setup”
  • “/research-setup”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Glob, AskUserQuestion

Workflow steps

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

  1. Check Existing Config
  2. Field & Identity
  3. Name & Project Title
  4. Journals
  5. Datasets
  6. Researchers & Colors
  7. Write Config Files
  8. Confirm

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:

    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Glob
    • AskUserQuestion

    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

Research Setup loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 169 tokens; SKILL.md has 530 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~169
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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 530 words (~1,246 tokens).

“Walk the user through setup using AskUserQuestion menus wherever possible. Collect all answers, then write config files in one pass.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
research-setup
allowed-tools
Read, Write, Edit, Glob, AskUserQuestion
argument-hint
(no arguments needed)

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/research-setup of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Research Setup

What does Research Setup do?

Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin. Research Setup is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Interactive setup wizard that configures a new project for the social-science-research plugin.

When should I use Research Setup?

Research Setup fits situations like: include: set up my project; configure the plugin; initialize this project; I just installed the plugin.

How do I install Research Setup in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill research-setup -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/research-setup in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/research-setup in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Research Setup in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill research-setup -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/research-setup in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/research-setup in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Research Setup need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Research Setup is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, AskUserQuestion.

Does Research Setup 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 Research Setup 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 Research Setup use?

Research Setup 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 Research Setup use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k 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 Research Setup?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Research Setup: Token System (Orange-OpenSource/Orange-Boosted-Bootstrap, 222 stars), Agent Instructions (murphytrueman/design-system-ops, 203 stars), Reflect (NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules, 141 stars) and Developing With Streamlit (streamlit/agent-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Research Setup?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,529 GitHub stars. The repository holds 364 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.