Publication Output
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
This skill covers publication-quality tables and figures for academic research papers.
Run data analytics and produce publication-quality tables and visualizations for social science research.
Install Scholar Analyze
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-analyze --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze .claude/skills/scholar-analyze && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "scholar-analyze" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze into .claude/skills/scholar-analyze/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-analyze", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-analyzeType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-analyze --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze .agents/skills/scholar-analyze && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-analyze" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze into .agents/skills/scholar-analyze/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-analyze", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-analyze --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze .cursor/skills/scholar-analyze && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "scholar-analyze" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze into .cursor/skills/scholar-analyze/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-analyze", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git --path .claude/skills/scholar-analyze--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-analyze --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze .gemini/skills/scholar-analyze && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-analyze" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze into .gemini/skills/scholar-analyze/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-analyze", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-analyzeInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze .github/skills/scholar-analyze && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-analyze" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze into .github/skills/scholar-analyze/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-analyze", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-analyze --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze .opencode/skills/scholar-analyze && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "scholar-analyze" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-analyze into .opencode/skills/scholar-analyze/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-analyze", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
scholar-analyze- GitHub stars
- 168
- Token cost
- ~20k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 5,998 words
- Files
- 20 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 30
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Run data analytics and produce publication-quality tables and visualizations for social science research.
- Works in 4 steps: DRAFT the model-ladder scripts (no… → Review. Load and execute… → Fix loop on CRITICAL findings:… → …
- Tasks that involve Data analysis
- SKILL.md covers Arguments, Setup, Step 0 — Data Safety Gate… and Design-Type Router (MANDATORY…, plus 5 more sections
- Runs R scripts from its folder; calls bash, npx and node
What it does
Scholar Analyze is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Run data analytics and produce publication-quality tables and visualizations for social science research. Saves regression tables (HTML/TeX/docx), figures (PDF/PNG), an internal analysis log, and a publication-ready Results document (prose + table notes + figure captions). Accepts file paths, inline/pasted data, or fetches from online sources (NHANES, IPUMS, GSS, World Bank, etc.). Runs A9/B9 verification subagents to check analytic and visualization correctness. For causal designs, invokes /scholar-causal first…
Its SKILL.md is about 20k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 20 other files, including reference files (for example `references/adjudication-rule.md`, `references/analysis-standards.md` and `references/component-a-bayesian.md`).
It sits in Documents & Office, covering Data analysis, Data visualization and Word documents. It works with Microsoft Word. The repository describes itself as: Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Data analysis
- Tasks that involve Data visualization
- Tasks that involve Word documents
Example prompts
- “/scholar-analyze”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- DRAFT the model-ladder scripts (no execution). After A2/A2b complete, write the planned A3–A8 code to script files using the D1 naming map…
- Review. Load and execute scholar-code-review in pre-execution mode, fast 3 subset (statistics data-handling correctness), passing the…
- Fix loop on CRITICAL findings: _shared/code-review-fix-loop.md (auto-fix mechanical, escalate design-level, max 2 iterations, re-review…
- Gate, then execute the reviewed files
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e5ac8e. 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
Ships script files (R), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
bashnpxnode
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
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
Scholar Analyze loads about 20k tokens when it runs, and up to ~74k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 140 tokens; SKILL.md has 5,998 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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: notes
The automated check noted patterns worth knowing about, such as sudo or a known installer.
- NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:598
ion:** If `VIZ_ENGINE=python` is set in `.env`, default to Python for all B1-B7 equivalents. Otherwise default to R.
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
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 5,998 words (~20,382 tokens).
“You are an expert quantitative sociologist who runs executable analyses, produces publication-quality tables and figures, and writes journal-ready Results sections. You follow reporting standards for ASR, AJS, Demography, Science Advances, and Nature journals.”
- name
- scholar-analyze
- tools
- Read, Bash, Write, WebSearch, Agent
- argument-hint
- [data source + model spec, e.g., 'NHANES 2017-2018, OLS of BMI on physical activity by race for Demography' or 'data.csv, fixed effects of education on…
- user-invocable
- true
Files
SKILL.md and 19 other files (references) in .claude/skills/scholar-analyze of joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
- SKILL.md
- references/adjudication-rule.md
- references/analysis-standards.md
- references/component-a-bayesian.md
- references/component-a-core.md
- references/component-a-export-robustness.md
- references/component-a-regression.md
- references/component-a-specialized.md
- references/component-a-verification.md
- references/design-router.md
- references/ladder-decomposition.md
- references/ladder-observational-causal.md
- references/ladder-observational-descriptive.md
- references/ladder-predictive-ml.md
- references/ladder-quasi-experimental.md
- references/ladder-rct.md
- references/viz-standards.md
- references/viz-templates-ggplot.md
- references/viz-templates-python.md
- references/viz_setting.R
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e5ac8e
Compare with similar skills
Scholar Analyze next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholar Analyze this skilljoshzyj/open-scholar-skill | 168 | — | ~20k | Automated safety check: Notes | Custom licence | |
| Publication Outputbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Latex To Word Workflowhajimi-kun/latex-to-word-workflow | 128 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Review RevisionM1n-n9/paper-lifecycle | 692 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Review Papermaxwell2732/my-submission-formatting-agent | 111 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Academic Paperbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~7.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
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Questions about Scholar Analyze
What does Scholar Analyze do?
Run data analytics and produce publication-quality tables and visualizations for social science research. Scholar Analyze is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Run data analytics and produce publication-quality tables and visualizations for social science research.
When should I use Scholar Analyze?
Scholar Analyze fits situations like: tasks that involve Data analysis; tasks that involve Data visualization; tasks that involve Word documents.
How do I install Scholar Analyze in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-analyze in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .claude/skills/scholar-analyze in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Scholar Analyze in Codex?
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-analyze in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .agents/skills/scholar-analyze in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Scholar Analyze 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 joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-analyze -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/scholar-analyze, .gemini/skills/scholar-analyze, .github/skills/scholar-analyze and .opencode/skills/scholar-analyze in your project.
What does Scholar Analyze need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Scholar Analyze needs R for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (bash, npx and node).
Does Scholar Analyze access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npx, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Scholar Analyze safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found notes only (mentions a .env file), nothing it rates as a warning. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Scholar Analyze use?
Scholar Analyze has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Scholar Analyze use?
About 20k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 82k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 53k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Scholar Analyze?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scholar Analyze: Publication Output (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars), Latex To Word Workflow (hajimi-kun/latex-to-word-workflow, 128 stars), Review Revision (M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle, 692 stars) and Review Paper (maxwell2732/my-submission-formatting-agent, 111 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Scholar Analyze?
joshzyj (a GitHub user) maintains it in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill, which has 168 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.
Source: joshzyj/open-scholar-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.