Agent skill

Ecta Robustness

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when an Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design, finite-sample performance, regularity-condition stress tests, and…

No licenceAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Ecta Robustness

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-robustness -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ecta-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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-robustness .claude/skills/ecta-robustness && 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
ecta-robustness
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
668 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,616
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when an Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design, finite-sample performance, regularity-condition stress tests, and…

  • Works in 5 steps: Designs that mirror the theory. Include… → Sample sizes that show convergence. Use… → Competitors. Compare against the natural… → …
  • An Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Designing the Monte Carlo, What to report and Regularity and edge-case…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ecta Robustness is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when an Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design, finite-sample performance, regularity-condition stress tests, and degenerate cases. Designs and audits the simulation evidence; it does not derive the asymptotics (use ecta-identification) or format the resulting tables (use ecta-tables-figures).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 Testing & QA, 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

  • An Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design
  • Finite-sample performance
  • Regularity-condition stress tests
  • Degenerate cases

Example prompts

  • “/ecta-robustness”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Designs that mirror the theory. Include DGPs where assumptions hold (to show the
  2. Sample sizes that show convergence. Use several n (e.g., small, moderate, large) so the
  3. Competitors. Compare against the natural existing method(s). A new estimator must beat
  4. Replications and Monte Carlo error. Use enough replications that reported size/coverage
  5. Seeds. Fix and record seeds; the tables must be reproducible bit-for-bit (see

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 Robustness loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 93 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
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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 668 words (~1,420 tokens).

“For methods papers, asymptotics without finite-sample evidence is a standard rejection reason. The Monte Carlo is not decoration — it is how the reader learns whether the asymptotic approximation is usable at realistic sample sizes.”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
ecta-robustness

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometrica-Skills/skills/ecta-robustness 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 Robustness

What does Ecta Robustness do?

A skill your agent uses when an Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design, finite-sample performance, regularity-condition stress tests, and…. Ecta Robustness is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when an Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design, finite-sample performance, regularity-condition stress tests, and degenerate cases.

When should I use Ecta Robustness?

Ecta Robustness fits situations like: an Econometrica manuscript needs finite-sample evidence and edge-case scrutiny — Monte Carlo design; finite-sample performance; regularity-condition stress tests; degenerate cases.

How do I install Ecta Robustness in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ecta Robustness in Codex?

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

Can I use Ecta 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ecta-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/ecta-robustness, .gemini/skills/ecta-robustness, .github/skills/ecta-robustness and .opencode/skills/ecta-robustness in your project.

What does Ecta Robustness need to run?

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

Does Ecta 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 Ecta 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 Ecta Robustness use?

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

How many tokens does Ecta Robustness use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k 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 Ecta Robustness?

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.