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Design experiments and quasi-experiments before analysis. An agent skill from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.
Install Designing Experiments
$ npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills designing-experiments --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/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/bundled/skills/designing-experiments .claude/skills/designing-experiments && 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 "designing-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/tree/main/bundled/skills/designing-experiments into .claude/skills/designing-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "designing-experiments", 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/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/tree/main/bundled/skills/designing-experimentsType 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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills designing-experiments --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/bundled/skills/designing-experiments .agents/skills/designing-experiments && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "designing-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/tree/main/bundled/skills/designing-experiments into .agents/skills/designing-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "designing-experiments", 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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills designing-experiments --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/bundled/skills/designing-experiments .cursor/skills/designing-experiments && 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 "designing-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/tree/main/bundled/skills/designing-experiments into .cursor/skills/designing-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "designing-experiments", 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/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.git --path bundled/skills/designing-experiments--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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills designing-experiments --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/bundled/skills/designing-experiments .gemini/skills/designing-experiments && 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 "designing-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/tree/main/bundled/skills/designing-experiments into .gemini/skills/designing-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "designing-experiments", 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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills designing-experimentsInstalls 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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/bundled/skills/designing-experiments .github/skills/designing-experiments && 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 "designing-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/tree/main/bundled/skills/designing-experiments into .github/skills/designing-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "designing-experiments", 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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills designing-experiments --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/bundled/skills/designing-experiments .opencode/skills/designing-experiments && 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 "designing-experiments" agent skill from https://github.com/foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills/tree/main/bundled/skills/designing-experiments into .opencode/skills/designing-experiments/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "designing-experiments", 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
designing-experiments- GitHub stars
- 3.6k
- Token cost
- ~600 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 240 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 81
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Design experiments and quasi-experiments before analysis. An agent skill from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.
- Works in 3 steps: Control Group? → Unit Structure? → Time Structure?
- Choosing study design
- SKILL.md covers Decision Framework, Method Quick Reference and Failed Experiment Recovery
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Designing Experiments is an agent skill from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. Design experiments and quasi-experiments before analysis. Use when choosing study design, treatment/control structure, outcomes, assumptions, validation plans after scientific experiment failure, or which of DiD, ITS, synthetic control, or regression discontinuity fits the research question. For fitting models or estimating effects on existing data, use performing-causal-analysis instead.
Its SKILL.md is about 600 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 Econometrics and empirical research, Experimental design and Hypothesis generation. The repository describes itself as: Intelligent Skill routing and workflow orchestration for AI agents — +21.12 pp reward, −29.6% tokens on SkillsBench with DeepSeekV4Flash-VE. The licence is Apache-2.0.
When your agent uses it
- Choosing study design
- Treatment/control structure
- Validation plans after scientific experiment failure
- Synthetic control
Example prompts
- “/designing-experiments”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Control Group?
- Unit Structure?
- Time Structure?
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ddcaa2a. 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
Designing Experiments loads about 600 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 103 tokens; SKILL.md has 240 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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills at commit ddcaa2a, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© foryourhealth111-pixel). 240 words, ~600 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/designing-experiments/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- designing-experiments
- description
- Design experiments and quasi-experiments before analysis. Use when choosing study design, treatment/control structure, outcomes, assumptions, validation plans after scientific experiment failure, or which of DiD, ITS, synthetic control, or regression discontinuity fits the research question. For fitting models or estimating effects on existing data, use performing-causal-analysis instead.
Designing Experiments
Helps choose and specify a research design before data analysis starts. This skill owns study-design decisions: what is treated, what is compared, what outcome is measured, which assumptions are required, which validation or recovery experiment should follow a failed scientific experiment, and which design is defensible.
It does not fit causal models, estimate treatment effects, interpret fitted model output from existing data, or debug software/build failures.
Decision Framework
Control Group?
- Yes: Go to Step 2.
- No: Consider Interrupted Time Series (ITS).
Unit Structure?
- Single Treated Unit:
- With multiple controls: Synthetic Control (SC).
- No controls: ITS.
- Multiple Treated Units:
- With control group: Difference-in-Differences (DiD).
- Single Treated Unit:
Time Structure?
- Panel Data (Multiple units over time): Required for DiD and SC.
- Time Series (Single unit over time): Required for ITS.
Method Quick Reference
- Difference-in-Differences (DiD): Compares trend changes between treated and control groups. Assumes Parallel Trends.
- Interrupted Time Series (ITS): Analyzes trend/level change for a single unit after intervention. Assumes Trend Continuity.
- Synthetic Control (SC): Constructs a synthetic counterfactual from weighted control units. Assumes Convex Hull (treated unit within range of controls).
Failed Experiment Recovery
When a scientific experiment or optimization plan produces weak or contradictory results, use the same design surface to:
- Separate implementation or measurement errors from design-assumption failures.
- Identify which assumption should be tested next.
- Define a minimal validation experiment before abandoning the approach.
- State the decision rule for continuing, revising, or stopping the line of work.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in bundled/skills/designing-experiments of foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit ddcaa2a
Compare with similar skills
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| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Designing Experiments this skillforyourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills | 3.6k | — | ~600 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Claim-Driven Experiment PlannerzjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine | 128 | 6 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | None | |
| Metabolic Study Planneraiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw | 15k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Research RefinezjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine | 128 | 6 repos | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | None | |
| Scientific BrainstormingOleafly/Oleafly | 212 | 2 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Legal Abductive ReasoningTHUYRan/Legal-Skills-Chinese | 874 | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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Questions about Designing Experiments
What does Designing Experiments do?
Design experiments and quasi-experiments before analysis. An agent skill from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. Designing Experiments is an agent skill from foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills. Design experiments and quasi-experiments before analysis.
When should I use Designing Experiments?
Designing Experiments fits situations like: choosing study design; treatment/control structure; validation plans after scientific experiment failure; synthetic control.
How do I install Designing Experiments in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (bundled/skills/designing-experiments in foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills) into .claude/skills/designing-experiments in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Designing Experiments in Codex?
Run `npx skills add foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (bundled/skills/designing-experiments in foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills) into .agents/skills/designing-experiments in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Designing Experiments 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 foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills --skill designing-experiments -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/designing-experiments, .gemini/skills/designing-experiments, .github/skills/designing-experiments and .opencode/skills/designing-experiments in your project.
What does Designing Experiments need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Designing Experiments is instructions for the agent only.
Does Designing Experiments 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 Designing Experiments 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 Designing Experiments use?
Designing Experiments is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Designing Experiments use?
About 600 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.4k 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 Designing Experiments?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Designing Experiments: Claim-Driven Experiment Planner (zjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine, 128 stars), Metabolic Study Planner (aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw, 15k stars), Research Refine (zjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine, 128 stars) and Scientific Brainstorming (Oleafly/Oleafly, 212 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Designing Experiments?
foryourhealth111-pixel (a GitHub user) maintains it in foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills, which has 3,627 GitHub stars. The repository holds 81 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 31, 2026.
Source: foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.