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Agent skill
Smr Empirical Illustration
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills
A skill your agent uses when building the real-data empirical illustration for a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — a demonstration that the method changes a substantive conclusion, not a…
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Install Smr Empirical Illustration
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-empirical-illustration -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-empirical-illustration --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration .claude/skills/smr-empirical-illustration && 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 "smr-empirical-illustration" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration into .claude/skills/smr-empirical-illustration/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-empirical-illustration", 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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustrationType 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 smr-empirical-illustration -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-empirical-illustration --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration .agents/skills/smr-empirical-illustration && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "smr-empirical-illustration" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration into .agents/skills/smr-empirical-illustration/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-empirical-illustration", 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 smr-empirical-illustration -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-empirical-illustration --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration .cursor/skills/smr-empirical-illustration && 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 "smr-empirical-illustration" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration into .cursor/skills/smr-empirical-illustration/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-empirical-illustration", 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 Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration--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 smr-empirical-illustration -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills smr-empirical-illustration --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration .gemini/skills/smr-empirical-illustration && 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 "smr-empirical-illustration" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration into .gemini/skills/smr-empirical-illustration/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-empirical-illustration", 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 smr-empirical-illustrationInstalls 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 smr-empirical-illustration -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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration .github/skills/smr-empirical-illustration && 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 "smr-empirical-illustration" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration into .github/skills/smr-empirical-illustration/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-empirical-illustration", 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 smr-empirical-illustration -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 smr-empirical-illustration --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/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration .opencode/skills/smr-empirical-illustration && 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 "smr-empirical-illustration" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration into .opencode/skills/smr-empirical-illustration/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "smr-empirical-illustration", 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
smr-empirical-illustration- GitHub stars
- 1.2k
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 539 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 2,387
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when building the real-data empirical illustration for a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — a demonstration that the method changes a substantive conclusion, not a…
- Not a decorative example
- SKILL.md covers The "it changes the answer"…, Choosing the dataset, What to report and Keep it an illustration, not a…, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Smr Empirical Illustration is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the real-data empirical illustration for a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — a demonstration that the method changes a substantive conclusion, not a decorative example. Designs the illustration; does not derive properties or design the Monte Carlo.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
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
- Not a decorative example
Example prompts
- “/smr-empirical-illustration”
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
Smr Empirical Illustration loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 539 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 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). 539 words, ~1,098 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/smr-empirical-illustration/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- smr-empirical-illustration
- description
- Use when building the real-data empirical illustration for a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — a demonstration that the method changes a substantive conclusion, not a decorative example. Designs the illustration; does not derive properties or design the Monte Carlo.
SMR Empirical Illustration
Use this to make the real-data section earn its place. SMR expects a methods paper to show that the method matters substantively — that using it instead of the incumbent leads to a different, better-justified conclusion about the social world. A throwaway "we also applied it to some data" section is a reviewer flag.
The "it changes the answer" standard
The illustration's job is to demonstrate consequence:
- Run the incumbent and the new method on the same data, and show where they diverge. The payoff sentence is "the standard approach would have concluded X; our method shows Y, and Y is the defensible answer because [reason tied to the method's properties]."
- Tie the divergence to the mechanism established in
smr-derivation-and-propertiesand the regime identified insmr-simulation-studies: the data should sit in the regime where the incumbent is known to fail. - State the substantive stake: who would have made a wrong inference, and about what, if they had used the old method? The stake makes the method consequential, not just correct.
Choosing the dataset
- Pick data that lives in the failure regime (e.g., few clusters, non-invariance across groups, informative missingness, network dependence) so the method has something to do.
- Prefer public or depositable data — SMR's availability policy expects the data and code behind
the illustration to be accessible (see
smr-software-and-reproducibility). If data are restricted, plan the availability statement now. - A familiar, recognizable dataset lets readers judge the result against intuition; an exotic one forces them to trust you on both the data and the method.
What to report
| Element | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Side-by-side incumbent vs. new method | Show the divergence concretely |
| The substantive conclusion under each | Make the stake visible |
| A diagnostic that the data are in the failure regime | Justify why the new method is needed here |
| Uncertainty for both methods | Avoid replacing one overconfident answer with another |
| Link to released code/data | Satisfy reproducibility expectations |
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Keep it an illustration, not a substantive paper
The danger runs both ways. Too thin and it is decorative; too thick and the paper becomes a
substantive study that belongs in ASR/AJS (the failure flagged in smr-topic-selection). Calibrate:
the illustration should be deep enough to show the method changes the answer, and no deeper. The unit
of analysis is the method's behavior on real data, not a full substantive argument with its own
literature.
Checklist
- Incumbent and new method are run on the same data with results side by side.
- The divergence is tied to the method's mechanism and the simulated failure regime.
- The substantive stake (who would be wrong, about what) is stated.
- A diagnostic shows the data are actually in the regime where the method is needed.
- Uncertainty is reported for both methods.
- Data are public/depositable, or a restricted-data availability plan exists.
- The section stays an illustration, not a full substantive study.
Anti-patterns
- Decorative application: the method is run, but it would not change any conclusion.
- Regime mismatch: data where the incumbent is fine, so the new method has nothing to prove.
- Substantive creep: the illustration grows into an ASR/AJS-style paper and loses methods focus.
- One-method reporting: showing only the new method's result, hiding what the incumbent would say.
- Inaccessible data with no plan: an illustration readers can never reproduce.
Output format
[Illustration status] consequential / decorative / not ready
[Dataset + regime] <data : why it sits in the failure regime>
[Divergence] <incumbent conclusion vs. new-method conclusion>
[Substantive stake] <who would have been wrong, about what>
[Reproducibility] data/code accessible? restricted-data plan?
[Next SMR skill] smr-tables-figures© 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
Files
Just SKILL.md in Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
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Questions about Smr Empirical Illustration
What does Smr Empirical Illustration do?
A skill your agent uses when building the real-data empirical illustration for a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — a demonstration that the method changes a substantive conclusion, not a…. Smr Empirical Illustration is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when building the real-data empirical illustration for a Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) paper — a demonstration that the method changes a substantive conclusion, not a decorative example.
When should I use Smr Empirical Illustration?
Smr Empirical Illustration fits situations like: not a decorative example.
How do I install Smr Empirical Illustration in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-empirical-illustration -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/smr-empirical-illustration in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Smr Empirical Illustration in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill smr-empirical-illustration -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Sociological-Methods-and-Research-Skills/skills/smr-empirical-illustration in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/smr-empirical-illustration in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Smr Empirical Illustration 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 smr-empirical-illustration -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/smr-empirical-illustration, .gemini/skills/smr-empirical-illustration, .github/skills/smr-empirical-illustration and .opencode/skills/smr-empirical-illustration in your project.
What does Smr Empirical Illustration need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Smr Empirical Illustration is instructions for the agent only.
Does Smr Empirical Illustration 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 Smr Empirical Illustration 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 Smr Empirical Illustration use?
Smr Empirical Illustration 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 Smr Empirical Illustration use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k 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 Smr Empirical Illustration?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Smr Empirical Illustration: Santa Method (affaan-m/ECC, 277k stars), Santa Method (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars), Santa Method (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars) and Article Illustrations (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Smr Empirical Illustration?
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.