Design identification strategy or pre-analysis plan. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Strategize

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills strategize --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/16-hsantanna88-clo-author/dot-claude/skills/strategize .claude/skills/strategize && 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
strategize
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
890 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design identification strategy or pre-analysis plan. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

  • Works in 7 steps: Read research spec, literature review,… → Read… → Dispatch Strategist to produce → …
  • Research & Science work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Modes and Principles
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Strategize is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Design identification strategy or pre-analysis plan. Dispatches Strategist (proposer) and strategist-critic (validator). Replaces /identify and /pre-analysis-plan.

Its SKILL.md is about 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. 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

  • Research & Science work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/strategize”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Task

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read research spec, literature review, and data assessment if they exist
  2. Read .claude/references/domain-profile.md for common identification strategies in the field
  3. Dispatch Strategist to produce
  4. Dispatch strategist-critic to review through 4 phases
  5. If CRITICAL issues found, iterate (max 3 rounds per three-strikes)
  6. Save memo to quality_reports/strategy_memo_[topic].md
  7. Save review to quality_reports/strategy_memo_[topic]_review.md

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
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • Write
    • Task

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Strategize loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 44 tokens; SKILL.md has 890 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~44
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~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 890 words (~2,001 tokens).

“Design an identification strategy or pre-analysis plan by dispatching the Strategist (proposer) and strategist-critic (validator).”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
strategize
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Task
argument-hint
[mode: strategy | pap | pap interactive] [research question or spec path]

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/16-hsantanna88-clo-author/dot-claude/skills/strategize of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Questions about Strategize

What does Strategize do?

Design identification strategy or pre-analysis plan. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Strategize is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Design identification strategy or pre-analysis plan.

When should I use Strategize?

Strategize fits situations like: research & Science work in your project.

How do I install Strategize in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill strategize -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/16-hsantanna88-clo-author/dot-claude/skills/strategize in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/strategize in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Strategize in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill strategize -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/16-hsantanna88-clo-author/dot-claude/skills/strategize in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/strategize in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Strategize need to run?

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

Does Strategize 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 Strategize 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 Strategize use?

Strategize 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 Strategize use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8k 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 Strategize?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Strategize: Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars), GitHub Deep Research (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars), Nature Paper Card (Yuan1z0825/nature-skills, 47k stars) and Content Research Writer (weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss, 1.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Strategize?

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.