A skill your agent uses when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a…

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Install Worlddev Robustness

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills worlddev-robustness --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/World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-robustness .claude/skills/worlddev-robustness && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
worlddev-robustness
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
668 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a…

  • Results may be sensitive — to specification
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Organize by threat, not by table, Development-specific traps WD… and Execution bridge (StatsPAI /…, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Inference for quantitative work

What it does

Worlddev Robustness is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a World Development (WD) manuscript. Organizes checks by threat; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k 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 Citation management. 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

  • Results may be sensitive — to specification
  • Inference for quantitative work
  • Interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a World Development (WD) manuscript

Example prompts

  • “/worlddev-robustness”

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

Worlddev Robustness loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 668 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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). 668 words, ~1,527 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/worlddev-robustness/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
worlddev-robustness
description
Use when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a World Development (WD) manuscript. Organizes checks by threat; it does not invent evidence or citations.

Robustness & Trustworthiness (worlddev-robustness)

When to trigger

  • The headline result moves under plausible alternative specifications
  • A referee suspects the finding is driven by one region, one wave, or one measurement choice
  • Development data are messy (recall error, measurement in informal economies, attrition) and this is unaddressed
  • A qualitative finding rests on a few vivid quotes with no account of disconfirming evidence
  • The robustness section is a mechanical dump of appendix tables organized by table, not by threat

Organize by threat, not by table

The single biggest WD robustness failure is a wall of appendix tables with no logic. A WD referee — often from a different discipline than the author — wants to see that you identified the threats to your specific claim and addressed each one. Structure the robustness work as a short list of named threats, each with the check that retires it and a one-line verdict. For each threat: what would break the claim, what test isolates it, what the test shows.

Quantitative threat map
ThreatCheck
Specification dependenceAdd/drop controls in a disciplined sequence (Oster-style δ/bounds); specification curve if the literature is unsettled
Sample / outlier dependenceDrop influential units, regions, or waves; leave-one-out; trim
Measurement error (acute in development data)Alternative measures; validation against an independent source; bounds
Inference fragilityCluster at the right level; few-cluster wild bootstrap; spatial (Conley) SEs; randomization inference for RCTs
Selection / attritionLee bounds; selection models; characterize who exits
Multiple hypothesesRomano–Wolf or sharpened q-values across the family of outcomes
Mechanism vs. confoundShow the proposed mechanism's footprint; rule out the leading alternative explicitly

Run the checks the threat justifies — not the full menu. A paper that reports forty robustness tables but never addresses the obvious confound has gold-plated the wrong corner.

Qualitative trustworthiness map

Robustness for qualitative WD work is trustworthiness, and it is judged, not waived:

  • Triangulation: corroborate key claims across data sources or informant types.
  • Negative-case analysis: actively present and account for evidence that cuts against the argument — its absence is a red flag.
  • Member checking / saturation: where appropriate, evidence that interpretations were checked and categories stabilized.
  • Audit trail: enough on coding and analysis that another researcher could follow the inference.
  • Reflexivity: acknowledge how the researcher's position shaped access and interpretation.
Mixed-methods

Show the strands converge or that divergence is informative. When quant and qual disagree, that tension is data — explain it rather than hiding the weaker strand.

Show full SKILL.md (271 more words)Show less

Development-specific traps WD referees catch

  • Treating survey measures from informal/subsistence settings as if measured with the precision of administrative data
  • Ignoring spatial autocorrelation in geographically clustered development data
  • Pooling heterogeneous countries/regions and reporting one average that masks the policy-relevant variation
  • Generalizing from one program/site without scope conditions
  • Reporting the robust result but not the fragile one a skeptic would run

Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

Run the battery, don't just enumerate it. Full map: execution-with-mcp. World Development is multidisciplinary development studies; the chain serves its quantitative-causal lane, mixed-methods work uses its own standards.

  • Many outcomes / specifications: romano_wolf (step-down FWER) or benjamini_hochberg.
  • OVB sensitivity: oster_delta / sensemakr.
  • Inference: wild_cluster_bootstrap (few clusters), twoway_cluster / conley.
  • Re-fit off one handle: audit_result(result_id) lists missing checks + the exact suggest_function for each.
  • Exhibits: etable / did_summary_to_latex from the handle — no retyped numbers.

Decisive checks in the body, exhaustive battery in the appendix. JF execution walkthrough.

Checklist

  • Robustness organized by named threat, each with check + one-line verdict
  • Inference matched to the design (clustering level, few-cluster, spatial, randomization)
  • Measurement error addressed where development data warrant it
  • The leading alternative explanation is ruled out, not merely mentioned
  • Qual: triangulation + negative cases + audit trail present
  • Heterogeneity that matters for policy is shown, not averaged away
  • No significance asterisks; effect sizes and uncertainty reported in real units

Anti-patterns

  • A robustness appendix sorted by table number with no threat logic
  • Forty checks for a non-threat, zero for the obvious confound
  • Burying a fragile headline result and reporting only the survivor specifications
  • Qualitative work that quotes only confirming voices and never the disconfirming ones
  • Hiding quant/qual divergence in a mixed paper instead of explaining it

Output format

text
【Journal】World Development (WD)
【Skill】worlddev-robustness
【Verdict】robust / fragile / mixed
【Threats addressed】[threat → check → verdict] for each
【Leading alternative】how it is ruled out
【Qual trustworthiness】triangulation / negative cases / audit trail (if applicable)
【Policy-relevant heterogeneity】shown / hidden
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】worlddev-tables-figures

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Files

Just SKILL.md in World-Development-Skills/skills/worlddev-robustness of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Worlddev Robustness

What does Worlddev Robustness do?

A skill your agent uses when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a…. Worlddev Robustness is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when results may be sensitive — to specification, sample, measurement, or inference for quantitative work, or to interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a World Development (WD) manuscript.

When should I use Worlddev Robustness?

Worlddev Robustness fits situations like: results may be sensitive — to specification; inference for quantitative work; interpretation and triangulation for qualitative work — in a World Development (WD) manuscript.

How do I install Worlddev Robustness in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Worlddev Robustness in Codex?

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

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

What does Worlddev Robustness need to run?

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

Does Worlddev Robustness 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 Worlddev Robustness 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 Worlddev Robustness use?

Worlddev Robustness 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 Worlddev Robustness use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Worlddev Robustness?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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