Agent skill

Rfs Empirical Design

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when sample construction, estimator choice, factor/portfolio design, or measurement is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript.

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Install Rfs Empirical Design

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills rfs-empirical-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/Review-of-Financial-Studies-Skills/skills/rfs-empirical-design .claude/skills/rfs-empirical-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
rfs-empirical-design
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
490 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when sample construction, estimator choice, factor/portfolio design, or measurement is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript.

  • Works in 5 steps: Sample construction → Variable measurement → Estimator choice → …
  • Sample construction
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Design decisions that make or…, Checklist and Anti-patterns, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Rfs Empirical Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when sample construction, estimator choice, factor/portfolio design, or measurement is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript. Settles design choices that make the identification credible; does NOT pick the identification strategy or run robustness.

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.

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

  • Sample construction
  • Estimator choice
  • Factor/portfolio design
  • Measurement is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript

Example prompts

  • “/rfs-empirical-design”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Sample construction
  2. Variable measurement
  3. Estimator choice
  4. Fixed effects and controls
  5. Standard errors

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

Rfs Empirical Design loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 490 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
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 490 words (~1,157 tokens).

“RFS publishes design-defining empirical templates referees will hold you to — e.g., the q-factor construction in Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015) "Digesting Anomalies" (RFS 28(3)) and the variance-risk-premium measure in Bollerslev, Tauchen, and Zhou (2009) (RFS 22(11)). Two RFS-specific pressures…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
rfs-empirical-design

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Review-of-Financial-Studies-Skills/skills/rfs-empirical-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 Rfs Empirical Design

What does Rfs Empirical Design do?

A skill your agent uses when sample construction, estimator choice, factor/portfolio design, or measurement is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript. Rfs Empirical Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when sample construction, estimator choice, factor/portfolio design, or measurement is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript.

When should I use Rfs Empirical Design?

Rfs Empirical Design fits situations like: sample construction; estimator choice; factor/portfolio design; measurement is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript.

How do I install Rfs Empirical Design in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Rfs Empirical Design in Codex?

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

Can I use Rfs Empirical 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 rfs-empirical-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/rfs-empirical-design, .gemini/skills/rfs-empirical-design, .github/skills/rfs-empirical-design and .opencode/skills/rfs-empirical-design in your project.

What does Rfs Empirical Design need to run?

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

Does Rfs Empirical 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 Rfs Empirical 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 Rfs Empirical Design use?

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

How many tokens does Rfs Empirical Design use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k 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 Rfs Empirical 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.