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Agent skill
Specification Search
by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Run an instrumented walk of a specification universe and recover honest inference from it.
Install Specification Search
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills specification-search --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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search .claude/skills/specification-search && 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 "specification-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search into .claude/skills/specification-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "specification-search", 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-searchType 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills specification-search --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search .agents/skills/specification-search && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "specification-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search into .agents/skills/specification-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "specification-search", 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills specification-search --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search .cursor/skills/specification-search && 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 "specification-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search into .cursor/skills/specification-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "specification-search", 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search--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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills specification-search --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search .gemini/skills/specification-search && 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 "specification-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search into .gemini/skills/specification-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "specification-search", 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills specification-searchInstalls 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search .github/skills/specification-search && 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 "specification-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search into .github/skills/specification-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "specification-search", 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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -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/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills specification-search --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search .opencode/skills/specification-search && 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 "specification-search" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search into .opencode/skills/specification-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "specification-search", 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
specification-search- GitHub stars
- 4.5k
- Token cost
- ~3.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,411 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 383
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Run an instrumented walk of a specification universe and recover honest inference from it.
- Works in 6 steps: bonferroni_p_of_best — correct but badly… → effective_tests — Li & Ji's count of… → romano_wolf_p_of_best — stepdown FWER… → …
- Run a multiverse
- SKILL.md covers The contract, Designs, Running and Reading the audit, plus 4 more sections
- Calls python
What it does
Specification Search is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Run an instrumented walk of a specification universe and recover honest inference from it. Estimates every specification in a design card (or walks it with a realistic search procedure), logs a complete ledger, flags pathological specifications, calibrates the search against an enforced null, runs the Simonsohn joint tests on the whole curve, measures how far the finding sits from the pre-registered analysis, attributes significance to the choices that produced it, and writes a publishable honest report. Use to…
Its SKILL.md is about 3.3k 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 Data & Analytics, covering Statistics. 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
- Run a multiverse
- Specification-curve analysis
- Audit a search someone else ran
- Compute multiplicity-corrected
Example prompts
- “/specification-search”
Requirements
- Python 3
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- bonferroni_p_of_best — correct but badly conservative, because
- effective_tests — Li & Ji's count of independent specifications. Three
- romano_wolf_p_of_best — stepdown FWER control that exploits the
- min_p_test.honest_p — the headline. The share of null datasets on which
- min_p_test_unflagged — the same, for the best specification that carries
- procedure_test — with --procedure: what the procedure reported,
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
Specification Search loads about 3.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 199 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,411 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
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,411 words (~3,278 tokens).
“This engine will walk any grid you hand it, including a grid built to find significance, with any procedure a p-hacker would use. It will not let the walk go unrecorded. Every run directory contains:”
- name
- specification-search
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
Compare with similar skills
Specification Search 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.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specification Search this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Sandbox Benchvercel/next.js | 143k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Statistical Analysisspacering-net/codeg | 3.9k | 3 repos | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| StatsmodelszLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills | 4.7k | 15 repos | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | |
| AI Daily DigestvigorX777/ai-daily-digest | 1.6k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Statistical Powerspacering-net/codeg | 3.9k | 1 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
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Questions about Specification Search
What does Specification Search do?
Run an instrumented walk of a specification universe and recover honest inference from it. Specification Search is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Run an instrumented walk of a specification universe and recover honest inference from it.
When should I use Specification Search?
Specification Search fits situations like: run a multiverse; specification-curve analysis; audit a search someone else ran; compute multiplicity-corrected.
How do I install Specification Search in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/specification-search in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Specification Search in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill specification-search -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/73-brycewang-p-hacking-skills/skills/03-specification-search in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/specification-search in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Specification Search 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 specification-search -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/specification-search, .gemini/skills/specification-search, .github/skills/specification-search and .opencode/skills/specification-search in your project.
What does Specification Search need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Specification Search needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.
Does Specification Search 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 Specification Search 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 Specification Search use?
Specification Search 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 Specification Search use?
About 3.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k 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 Specification Search?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Specification Search: Sandbox Bench (vercel/next.js, 143k stars), Statistical Analysis (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), Statsmodels (zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skills, 4.7k stars) and AI Daily Digest (vigorX777/ai-daily-digest, 1.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Specification Search?
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.