Agent skill

Sensys Reproducibility

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method, hardware and firmware provenance, sensor ground-truth protocol, and…

MITAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Sensys Reproducibility

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sensys-reproducibility -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills sensys-reproducibility --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/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/SenSys-Skills/skills/sensys-reproducibility .claude/skills/sensys-reproducibility && 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
sensys-reproducibility
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
379 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method, hardware and firmware provenance, sensor ground-truth protocol, and…

  • Making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method
  • SKILL.md covers Capture it live, not later, The reproducibility that…, Decide early what can ship and Reproducibility checklist, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Hardware and firmware provenance

What it does

Sensys Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method, hardware and firmware provenance, sensor ground-truth protocol, and deployment conditions while the testbed is still live, and deciding early which traces and firmware can legally and safely ship.

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 Research & Science, covering Reproducible research and Deployment. 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

  • Making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method
  • Hardware and firmware provenance
  • Sensor ground-truth protocol
  • Deployment conditions while the testbed is still live

Example prompts

  • “/sensys-reproducibility”

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

Sensys Reproducibility loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 379 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~83
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

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 379 words, ~1,172 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sensys-reproducibility/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sensys-reproducibility
description
Use when making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method, hardware and firmware provenance, sensor ground-truth protocol, and deployment conditions while the testbed is still live, and deciding early which traces and firmware can legally and safely ship.

SenSys Reproducibility

A SenSys result is reproducible when someone on different hardware can understand — and, from your traces, re-obtain — your numbers. The threat is not messy code; it is provenance that evaporates when the deployment ends. Energy measured without its method, accuracy scored against forgotten ground truth, and firmware whose toolchain is unrecorded cannot be reproduced at any price once the testbed is torn down. Capture it while the nodes are still powered.

Capture it live, not later

ProvenanceCapture while liveWhy it cannot be reconstructed
Energy methodInstrument model, sampling rate, integration boundaries, sleep floorA stored current number loses its method; "42 µA" of what phases?
HardwareMCU/SoC part + clock, sensor config, radio + TX power, board revision, battery/harvester specA later "same board" is rarely bit-identical
FirmwareSources + toolchain version + compiler flags, pinnedA rebuild on a new toolchain shifts timing and energy
Ground truthReference protocol + the reference's own errorLabels without their protocol are unfalsifiable
DeploymentPlacement, environment, duration, node uptime/failuresConditions are gone once the deployment ends
Harvest inputEnergy-source trace (light/RF/vibration), buffer sizingBehavior across brownouts is unreproducible without the input
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The reproducibility that matters is cross-hardware

Reproducing your own result on your own testbed proves little. The SenSys bar is that a different lab can interpret a mismatch: when their number differs from yours, the provenance tells them why (different MCU clock, different harvest input) rather than leaving them to guess. Ship recorded traces so the analysis can be re-run even by someone who lacks your hardware — this is what turns a deployment result into a reproducible one and underpins the trace-replay path in sensys-artifact-evaluation.

text
Minimum reproducible bundle for a SenSys figure:
  traces/fig4_power.csv        # raw power samples + timestamps
  traces/fig4_sensor.csv       # the sensor stream behind the same figure
  analysis/reproduce_fig4.py   # regenerates Fig. 4 from the two traces
  ENERGY.md                    # instrument, rate, integration boundaries
  HARDWARE.md                  # part numbers, clocks, board rev, harvester spec
  firmware/ + toolchain.lock   # pinned build that produced the traces

Decide early what can ship

Some SenSys artifacts carry release constraints that a purely computational paper never faces:

  • Sensor data of people or spaces may need consent, anonymization, or aggregation before it can be released — decide at collection time, because retroactive consent is usually impossible.
  • Firmware and hardware designs may touch third-party IP or a vendor NDA; confirm what is releasable before promising an Available badge.
  • Deployment locations can be sensitive (critical infrastructure, private property); scrub identifying detail from released traces.

Resolving these late forces a choice between a weak artifact and a broken promise. Resolve them in the experiment plan (sensys-experiments).

Reproducibility checklist

text
[ ] Energy method (instrument, rate, boundaries) recorded, not just the number.
[ ] Hardware provenance: parts, clocks, board revision, battery/harvester spec.
[ ] Firmware sources + pinned toolchain + compiler flags archived.
[ ] Ground-truth protocol and the reference's own error documented.
[ ] Deployment conditions + honest uptime/failure log captured while live.
[ ] Harvest-input traces + buffer sizing stored for batteryless results.
[ ] Recorded traces shipped so figures re-generate without your hardware.
[ ] Release constraints (consent, NDA, location) resolved at collection time.

Output format

text
[Live-capture] which provenance is captured vs. still at risk while the testbed runs
[Cross-HW]     can a different lab interpret a mismatch from what you shipped? Y/N
[Traces]       do shipped traces regenerate the headline figures without hardware? Y/N
[Release]      consent/NDA/location constraints resolved? open items
[Open]         the provenance whose loss would most damage reproducibility

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Files

Just SKILL.md in SenSys-Skills/skills/sensys-reproducibility of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Sensys Reproducibility

What does Sensys Reproducibility do?

A skill your agent uses when making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method, hardware and firmware provenance, sensor ground-truth protocol, and…. Sensys Reproducibility is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method, hardware and firmware provenance, sensor ground-truth protocol, and deployment conditions while the testbed is still live, and deciding early which traces and firmware can legally and safely ship.

When should I use Sensys Reproducibility?

Sensys Reproducibility fits situations like: making a SenSys result reproducible across a different testbed — capturing energy-measurement method; hardware and firmware provenance; sensor ground-truth protocol; deployment conditions while the testbed is still live.

How do I install Sensys Reproducibility in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sensys-reproducibility -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (SenSys-Skills/skills/sensys-reproducibility in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/sensys-reproducibility in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sensys Reproducibility in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sensys-reproducibility -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (SenSys-Skills/skills/sensys-reproducibility in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/sensys-reproducibility in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Sensys Reproducibility need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Sensys Reproducibility is instructions for the agent only.

Does Sensys Reproducibility 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 Sensys Reproducibility 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 Sensys Reproducibility use?

Sensys Reproducibility 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 Sensys Reproducibility use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Sensys Reproducibility?

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Who maintains Sensys Reproducibility?

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.