What If Oracle
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
Supports structured what-if scenario analysis for research planning, experimental contingencies, and scientific project decisions.
A skill your agent uses when the bottleneck is identification and inference for an Econometrica manuscript — identification conditions and asymptotic distribution theory for an estimator, or axioms…
Install Ecta Identification
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-identification --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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification .claude/skills/ecta-identification && 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 "ecta-identification" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification into .claude/skills/ecta-identification/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-identification", 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/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identificationType 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-identification --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification .agents/skills/ecta-identification && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "ecta-identification" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification into .agents/skills/ecta-identification/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-identification", 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-identification --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification .cursor/skills/ecta-identification && 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 "ecta-identification" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification into .cursor/skills/ecta-identification/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-identification", 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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git --path Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification--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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-identification --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification .gemini/skills/ecta-identification && 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 "ecta-identification" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification into .gemini/skills/ecta-identification/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-identification", 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-identificationInstalls 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification .github/skills/ecta-identification && 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 "ecta-identification" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification into .github/skills/ecta-identification/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-identification", 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-identification --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification .opencode/skills/ecta-identification && 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 "ecta-identification" agent skill from https://github.com/franklee16/academic-research-skills/tree/master/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification into .opencode/skills/ecta-identification/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ecta-identification", 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
ecta-identification- GitHub stars
- 223
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1.9k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 850 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 1,616
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- None found
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when the bottleneck is identification and inference for an Econometrica manuscript — identification conditions and asymptotic distribution theory for an estimator, or axioms…
- Works in 4 steps: Define the parameter / object as a… → State the identification conditions as… → Prove identification: show the map from… → …
- Axioms and existence/uniqueness for a theory model
- SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Branch A — Econometric theory:…, Branch B — Econometric theory:… and Branch C — Micro / game /…, plus 4 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Ecta Identification is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when the bottleneck is identification and inference for an Econometrica manuscript — identification conditions and asymptotic distribution theory for an estimator, or axioms and existence/uniqueness for a theory model. Stress-tests the formal foundations before the proofs and simulations are written.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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 Load testing. 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
- Axioms and existence/uniqueness for a theory model
- Tasks that involve Load testing
Example prompts
- “/ecta-identification”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Define the parameter / object as a functional of the data-generating process, separate
- State the identification conditions as numbered assumptions (rank / completeness /
- Prove identification: show the map from distribution to parameter is one-to-one on the
- Distinguish point vs. partial identification. If only set identification holds, define
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
Ecta Identification loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 850 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
Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 850 words (~1,859 tokens).
“This is the formal spine. Econometrica referees check it first; a gap here sinks the paper.”
- name
- ecta-identification
Files
Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification 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 Ecta Identification
What does Ecta Identification do?
A skill your agent uses when the bottleneck is identification and inference for an Econometrica manuscript — identification conditions and asymptotic distribution theory for an estimator, or axioms…. Ecta Identification is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when the bottleneck is identification and inference for an Econometrica manuscript — identification conditions and asymptotic distribution theory for an estimator, or axioms and existence/uniqueness for a theory model.
When should I use Ecta Identification?
Ecta Identification fits situations like: axioms and existence/uniqueness for a theory model; tasks that involve Load testing.
How do I install Ecta Identification in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/ecta-identification in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Ecta Identification in Codex?
Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-identification -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-identification in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/ecta-identification in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Ecta Identification 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 ecta-identification -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ecta-identification, .gemini/skills/ecta-identification, .github/skills/ecta-identification and .opencode/skills/ecta-identification in your project.
What does Ecta Identification need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ecta Identification is instructions for the agent only.
Does Ecta Identification 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 Ecta Identification 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 Ecta Identification use?
No licence was found for Ecta Identification or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.
How many tokens does Ecta Identification use?
About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.4k 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 Ecta Identification?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ecta Identification: What If Oracle (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, 48k stars), Paper Review (EvoScientist/EvoSkills, 475 stars), Data Finder (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars) and Weakness Scanner (flonat/flonat-research, 145 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Ecta Identification?
franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,616 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.