Agent skill

Crim Research Design

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work, longitudinal and life-course designs…

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Crim Research Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill crim-research-design -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills crim-research-design --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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Criminology-Skills/skills/crim-research-design .claude/skills/crim-research-design && 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
crim-research-design
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
436 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work, longitudinal and life-course designs…

  • Defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Quantitative / causal inference, Longitudinal / life-course /… and Place-based & experimental, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Longitudinal and life-course designs

What it does

Crim Research Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work, longitudinal and life-course designs, criminal-career and trajectory methods, place-based and experimental designs, or case selection and process tracing for qualitative work. Criminology judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k 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, covering Experimental design and Curriculum and course design. The repository describes itself as: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work
  • Longitudinal and life-course designs
  • Criminal-career and trajectory methods
  • Place-based and experimental designs

Example prompts

  • “/crim-research-design”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. 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

Crim Research Design loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 106 tokens; SKILL.md has 436 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~106
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 436 words (~1,168 tokens).

“Criminology accepts many methodologies but is demanding about each. The design must credibly connect the mechanism (crim-theory-building) to crime evidence. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest rival explanation.”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
crim-research-design

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Criminology-Skills/skills/crim-research-design of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Crim Research Design

What does Crim Research Design do?

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work, longitudinal and life-course designs…. Crim Research Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work, longitudinal and life-course designs, criminal-career and trajectory methods, place-based and experimental designs, or case selection and process tracing for qualitative work.

When should I use Crim Research Design?

Crim Research Design fits situations like: defending the research design of a Criminology (ASC / Wiley) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work; longitudinal and life-course designs; criminal-career and trajectory methods; place-based and experimental designs.

How do I install Crim Research Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill crim-research-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Criminology-Skills/skills/crim-research-design in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/crim-research-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Crim Research Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill crim-research-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Criminology-Skills/skills/crim-research-design in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/crim-research-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Crim Research Design 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill crim-research-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/crim-research-design, .gemini/skills/crim-research-design, .github/skills/crim-research-design and .opencode/skills/crim-research-design in your project.

What does Crim Research Design need to run?

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

Does Crim Research Design 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 Crim Research Design 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 Crim Research Design use?

No licence was found for Crim Research Design or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Crim Research Design use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k 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 Crim Research Design?

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Who maintains Crim Research Design?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,617 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.

Source: franklee16/academic-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.