Agent skill

Ectheory Identification Strategy

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when the assumptions, regularity conditions, and asymptotic results are the bottleneck for an Econometric Theory (ET) theorem-proof paper — adapt "identification" to mean…

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Ectheory Identification Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill ectheory-identification-strategy -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills ectheory-identification-strategy --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/Econometric-Theory-Skills/skills/ectheory-identification-strategy .claude/skills/ectheory-identification-strategy && 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
ectheory-identification-strategy
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
470 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the assumptions, regularity conditions, and asymptotic results are the bottleneck for an Econometric Theory (ET) theorem-proof paper — adapt "identification" to mean…

  • Works in 4 steps: Assumptions. State each one explicitly… → Results. State theorems precisely — the… → Proof exposition. Give a readable proof:… → …
  • The assumptions
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The ET rigor bar (theory…, Branch paths by environment and Checklist, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ectheory Identification Strategy is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when the assumptions, regularity conditions, and asymptotic results are the bottleneck for an Econometric Theory (ET) theorem-proof paper — adapt "identification" to mean stating defensible assumptions, proving the limit theory, and establishing generality, not causal design.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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. 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

  • The assumptions
  • Regularity conditions
  • Proving the limit theory
  • Establishing generality

Example prompts

  • “identification”
  • “/ectheory-identification-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Assumptions. State each one explicitly and minimally. For every assumption ask: is it
  2. Results. State theorems precisely — the object, the mode of convergence (in probability, in
  3. Proof exposition. Give a readable proof: a roadmap up front, key lemmas isolated, and the
  4. Generality. Show the result is not an artifact of a special case — handle dependent data,

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

Ectheory Identification Strategy loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 470 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

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 470 words (~1,116 tokens).

“At ET the analogue of an "identification strategy" is a complete, defensible assumption set plus a correct, general proof. The most common ET referee objection is an unstated or implausibly strong regularity condition. Treat the assumption-result-proof triple as the spine:”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
ectheory-identification-strategy

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Econometric-Theory-Skills/skills/ectheory-identification-strategy 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 Ectheory Identification Strategy

What does Ectheory Identification Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when the assumptions, regularity conditions, and asymptotic results are the bottleneck for an Econometric Theory (ET) theorem-proof paper — adapt "identification" to mean…. Ectheory Identification Strategy is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when the assumptions, regularity conditions, and asymptotic results are the bottleneck for an Econometric Theory (ET) theorem-proof paper — adapt "identification" to mean stating defensible assumptions, proving the limit theory, and establishing generality, not causal design.

When should I use Ectheory Identification Strategy?

Ectheory Identification Strategy fits situations like: the assumptions; regularity conditions; proving the limit theory; establishing generality.

How do I install Ectheory Identification Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Ectheory Identification Strategy in Codex?

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

Can I use Ectheory Identification Strategy 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 ectheory-identification-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ectheory-identification-strategy, .gemini/skills/ectheory-identification-strategy, .github/skills/ectheory-identification-strategy and .opencode/skills/ectheory-identification-strategy in your project.

What does Ectheory Identification Strategy need to run?

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

Does Ectheory Identification Strategy 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 Ectheory Identification Strategy 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 Ectheory Identification Strategy use?

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

How many tokens does Ectheory Identification Strategy use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.5k 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 Ectheory Identification Strategy?

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Who maintains Ectheory Identification Strategy?

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.