Agent skill

Psci Study Design

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control.

No licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Psci Study Design

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills psci-study-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/Psychological-Science-Skills/skills/psci-study-design .claude/skills/psci-study-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
psci-study-design
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~857 tokens
SKILL.md length
324 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control.

  • Works in 5 steps: Sample-size justification. Provide an… → Preregister the confirmatory core.… → Control researcher degrees of freedom.… → …
  • Designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journals standards for power
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Design standards, Registered Reports (strongest… and Anti-patterns, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Psci Study Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control. Strengthens the design and pre-analysis plan; it does not write code.

Its SKILL.md is about 860 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. 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

  • Designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journals standards for power
  • Sample-size justification
  • Preregistration
  • Confound control

Example prompts

  • “/psci-study-design”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Sample-size justification. Provide an explicit basis for N — a power analysis for the
  2. Preregister the confirmatory core. Specify hypotheses, design, conditions, measures, exclusion
  3. Control researcher degrees of freedom. Decide in advance: conditions, the full set of measures,
  4. Confounds and validity. Address random assignment, manipulation/attention checks, order
  5. Multi-study logic. If using several studies, say what each adds (generalization, mechanism,

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

Psci Study Design loads about 857 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 324 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~857

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 324 words (~857 tokens).

“Psychological Science expects studies that are adequately powered, transparently planned, and robust to researcher degrees of freedom. Authors must justify sample size (a formal power analysis where appropriate). This skill hardens the design before data collection.”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
psci-study-design

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Psychological-Science-Skills/skills/psci-study-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 Psci Study Design

What does Psci Study Design do?

A skill your agent uses when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control. Psci Study Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journal's standards for power, sample-size justification, preregistration, and confound control.

When should I use Psci Study Design?

Psci Study Design fits situations like: designing studies for a Psychological Science manuscript so they meet the journals standards for power; sample-size justification; preregistration; confound control.

How do I install Psci Study Design in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Psci Study Design in Codex?

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

Can I use Psci Study 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 psci-study-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/psci-study-design, .gemini/skills/psci-study-design, .github/skills/psci-study-design and .opencode/skills/psci-study-design in your project.

What does Psci Study Design need to run?

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

Does Psci Study 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 Psci Study 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 Psci Study Design use?

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

How many tokens does Psci Study Design use?

About 857 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k 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 Psci Study Design?

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Who maintains Psci Study 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.