Agent skill

Experiment Design Pipeline

by GRIND-Lab-Core in GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent

Run an end-to-end workflow that chains the skills refine-research and experiment-design.

No licenceAuto-check: warningsResearch & Science

Install Experiment Design Pipeline

The automated check flagged lines worth reading first. See the safety section below.

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent --skill experiment-design-pipeline -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent experiment-design-pipeline --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/GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/experiment-design-pipeline .claude/skills/experiment-design-pipeline && 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
experiment-design-pipeline
GitHub stars
106
Token cost
~2.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
838 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Run an end-to-end workflow that chains the skills refine-research and experiment-design.

  • Works in 6 steps: Triage the Starting Point → Method Refinement Stage → Planning Gate → …
  • The user wants a one-shot pipeline from vague research direction to focused final proposal plus detailed experiment roadmap
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Core Rule, Default Outputs and Workflow, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Experiment Design Pipeline is an agent skill from GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent. Run an end-to-end workflow that chains the skills refine-research and experiment-design. Use when the user wants a one-shot pipeline from vague research direction to focused final proposal plus detailed experiment roadmap, or asks to build a pipeline, do it end-to-end, or generate both the method and experiment plan together.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.1k 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 Experimental design. The repository describes itself as: Fully automatic AI research agent for Geoscientists, Remote Sensing researchers, and GIScientists. Features harness engineering, GeoBenchmark (OLS/GWR/MGWR), journal templates…

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants a one-shot pipeline from vague research direction to focused final proposal plus detailed experiment roadmap
  • Asks to build a pipeline
  • Do it end-to-end
  • Generate both the method and experiment plan together

Example prompts

  • “/experiment-design-pipeline”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent

Workflow steps

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

  1. Triage the Starting Point
  2. Method Refinement Stage
  3. Planning Gate
  4. Experiment Planning Stage
  5. Integration Summary
  6. Present a Brief Summary to the User

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5f7a246. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Bash(*)
    • Read
    • Write
    • Edit
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • WebSearch
    • WebFetch
    • Agent

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Experiment Design Pipeline loads about 2.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 90 tokens; SKILL.md has 838 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~90
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.1k

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: warnings

The automated check found patterns that need a careful read before installing.

  • WarningTells the agent its actions are pre-authorized / not to stop for confirmationSKILL.md:198
    t << 'EOF' > file`) to write in chunks. Do NOT ask the user for permission — just do it silently.
  • NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md
    allowed-tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent

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 838 words (~2,126 tokens).

name
experiment-design-pipeline
allowed-tools
Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent
argument-hint
topic-or-scope

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/experiment-design-pipeline of GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5f7a246

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Research Refine PipelinezjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine1285 repos~1.4kAutomated safety check: NotesNone
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Questions about Experiment Design Pipeline

What does Experiment Design Pipeline do?

Run an end-to-end workflow that chains the skills refine-research and experiment-design. Experiment Design Pipeline is an agent skill from GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent. Run an end-to-end workflow that chains the skills refine-research and experiment-design.

When should I use Experiment Design Pipeline?

Experiment Design Pipeline fits situations like: the user wants a one-shot pipeline from vague research direction to focused final proposal plus detailed experiment roadmap; asks to build a pipeline; do it end-to-end; generate both the method and experiment plan together.

How do I install Experiment Design Pipeline in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent --skill experiment-design-pipeline -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/experiment-design-pipeline in GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent) into .claude/skills/experiment-design-pipeline in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Experiment Design Pipeline in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent --skill experiment-design-pipeline -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/experiment-design-pipeline in GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent) into .agents/skills/experiment-design-pipeline in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Experiment Design Pipeline 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 GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent --skill experiment-design-pipeline -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/experiment-design-pipeline, .gemini/skills/experiment-design-pipeline, .github/skills/experiment-design-pipeline and .opencode/skills/experiment-design-pipeline in your project.

What does Experiment Design Pipeline need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Experiment Design Pipeline is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Bash(*), Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch, Agent.

Does Experiment Design Pipeline 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 Experiment Design Pipeline safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md flagged 1 warning(s): tells the agent its actions are pre-authorized / not to stop for confirmation. Read the flagged lines before installing; the check is not a guarantee either way.

What licence does Experiment Design Pipeline use?

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

How many tokens does Experiment Design Pipeline use?

About 2.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.5k 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 Experiment Design Pipeline?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Experiment Design Pipeline: Scientific Critical Thinking (weapp-tailwindcss/weapp-tailwindcss, 1.9k stars), Benchmark Paper Template (HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills, 8.8k stars), Claim-Driven Experiment Planner (zjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine, 128 stars) and Research Refine Pipeline (zjYao36/Auto-Research-Refine, 128 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Experiment Design Pipeline?

GRIND-Lab-Core (a GitHub organization) maintains it in GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent, which has 106 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 6, 2026.

Source: GRIND-Lab-Core/night_owl_research_agent on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.