Manuscript Statistics Audit
Yuan1z0825/nature-skills
Audits or rewrites the statistical reporting in a manuscript: experimental units, replication, tests, uncertainty and figure legends, without inventing missing details.
Agent skill
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design, and pre-empting them in the manuscript before…
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-referee-strategy -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-referee-strategy --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/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy .claude/skills/restat-referee-strategy && 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 "restat-referee-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy into .claude/skills/restat-referee-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-referee-strategy", 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/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategyType 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 restat-referee-strategy -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-referee-strategy --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/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy .agents/skills/restat-referee-strategy && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "restat-referee-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy into .agents/skills/restat-referee-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-referee-strategy", 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 restat-referee-strategy -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-referee-strategy --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/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy .cursor/skills/restat-referee-strategy && 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 "restat-referee-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy into .cursor/skills/restat-referee-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-referee-strategy", 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 Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy--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 restat-referee-strategy -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-referee-strategy --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/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy .gemini/skills/restat-referee-strategy && 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 "restat-referee-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy into .gemini/skills/restat-referee-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-referee-strategy", 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 restat-referee-strategyInstalls 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 restat-referee-strategy -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/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy .github/skills/restat-referee-strategy && 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 "restat-referee-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy into .github/skills/restat-referee-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-referee-strategy", 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 restat-referee-strategy -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 restat-referee-strategy --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/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy .opencode/skills/restat-referee-strategy && 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 "restat-referee-strategy" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy into .opencode/skills/restat-referee-strategy/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-referee-strategy", 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.
restat-referee-strategyA skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design, and pre-empting them in the manuscript before…
Restat Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design, and pre-empting them in the manuscript before submission. Maps threats to defenses; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (that is restat-rebuttal).
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Peer review and Statistics. 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.
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Restat Referee Strategy loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 596 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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 596 words, ~1,315 tokens.
.claude/skills/restat-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).REStat referees are applied economists who attack identification and measurement first. They ask: Is the design actually clean? Is everything measured well enough to support the claim? Would the result survive the specification I would run? Does the conclusion exceed the evidence? Because REStat publishes across many applied fields, expect a referee who knows your subfield's data quirks intimately. The winning manuscript answers the top objection inside the paper — one paragraph plus one exhibit — before the referee can raise it.
| Design | The objection a REStat referee raises first | Pre-empt with |
|---|---|---|
| DID (staggered) | "TWFE is biased with heterogeneous timing" | Het-robust estimator (CS / Sun–Abraham) + flat event-study + Bacon decomp |
| DID (any) | "Pre-trends / parallel trends fails" | Pre-trend tests + honest-DID bounds (Rambachan–Roth) |
| RD | "The running variable is manipulated" | Density test (CJM) + covariate smoothness + bandwidth sensitivity |
| IV | "Exclusion restriction is violated / instrument is weak" | Institutional + falsification defense of exclusion; effective-F; AR weak-IV sets |
| Shift-share | "Shares/shocks are endogenous" | GPSS share-exogeneity or BHJ shock-exogeneity argument + implied estimates |
| Any | "Your key variable is measured with error" | Validation sample / attenuation correction / bounds (REStat-signature) |
| Any | "Inference ignores clustering / few clusters / many tests" | Right clustering + wild-cluster bootstrap + MHT correction |
| Any | "The conclusion overreaches the estimate" | State the estimand and scope; bound external-validity claims |
restat-robustness for the suite, restat-tables-figures for presentation).A trade paper uses a shift-share instrument and the author is braced for the usual exogeneity questions. But the first objection a REStat referee raises is about measurement: the industry-share weights are built from a base-year census the referee believes is mismeasured for small sectors. Anticipating this, the author adds, in the main text, a one-paragraph defense plus one exhibit — re-estimating with shares from an independent survey and showing the estimate barely moves — before any referee sees the paper. The exogeneity question (shares vs shocks, BHJ) is handled in a second paragraph. By pre-empting the measurement objection, not just the identification one, the author removes the easiest path to a critical report — the REStat-specific move siblings often miss.
【Design】[DID / RD / IV / shift-share / measurement]
【Top objections (ranked)】1:[...] 2:[...] 3:[...] (4–6)
【Hardest answered in main text?】paragraph + exhibit? [Y/N]
【Measurement objection addressed?】[Y/N]
【Inference objection pre-empted?】[Y/N]
【Scope bounded?】external-validity claim limited? [Y/N]
【Main vs appendix budget】main: [...]; appendix: [...]
【Next step】restat-submission© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Just SKILL.md in Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Restat Referee Strategy 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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| Restat Referee Strategy this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Manuscript Statistics AuditYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Jbes Review Processfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~900 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Peer ReviewK-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer | 2.4k | 2 repos | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| JS Perf InvestigationSAP/project-foxhound | 180 | 2 repos | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | |
| Math Modeling SolverLupynow/math-modeling-skills | 415 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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A skill your agent uses when anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design, and pre-empting them in the manuscript before…. Restat Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design, and pre-empting them in the manuscript before submission.
Restat Referee Strategy fits situations like: anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design; pre-empting them in the manuscript before submission.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-referee-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/restat-referee-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-referee-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/restat-referee-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 restat-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/restat-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/restat-referee-strategy, .github/skills/restat-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/restat-referee-strategy in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Restat Referee Strategy is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Restat Referee Strategy is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Restat Referee Strategy: Manuscript Statistics Audit (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars), Jbes Review Process (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Peer Review (K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer, 2.4k stars) and JS Perf Investigation (SAP/project-foxhound, 180 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.