Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) before hypothesis testing.
$ npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-eda -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-eda --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-eda .claude/skills/scholar-eda && 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-eda" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-eda into .claude/skills/scholar-eda/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-eda", 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-edaType 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-eda -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-eda --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-eda .agents/skills/scholar-eda && 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-eda" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-eda into .agents/skills/scholar-eda/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-eda", 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-eda -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-eda --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-eda .cursor/skills/scholar-eda && 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-eda" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-eda into .cursor/skills/scholar-eda/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-eda", 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-eda--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-eda -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install joshzyj/open-scholar-skill scholar-eda --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-eda .gemini/skills/scholar-eda && 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-eda" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-eda into .gemini/skills/scholar-eda/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-eda", 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-edaInstalls 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-eda -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-eda .github/skills/scholar-eda && 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-eda" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-eda into .github/skills/scholar-eda/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-eda", 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-eda -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-eda --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-eda .opencode/skills/scholar-eda && 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-eda" agent skill from https://github.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/tree/main/.claude/skills/scholar-eda into .opencode/skills/scholar-eda/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "scholar-eda", 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.
scholar-edaConduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) before hypothesis testing.
Scholar Eda is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) before hypothesis testing. Run when the user has a dataset and needs to load data, build the analytic sample, diagnose missing data, inspect distributions, visualize relationships, check collinearity, and produce a publication-ready Table 1 and pre-analysis memo. Produces figures (PDF/PNG) and tables (HTML/docx/TeX). Saves output to disk. Works after /scholar-data and before /scholar-analyze.
Its SKILL.md is about 12k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/cleaning-guide.md` and `references/missing-data.md`).
It sits in Documents & Office, covering Data analysis, Word documents and LaTeX. It works with Microsoft Word. The repository describes itself as: Open scholar skill, a claude code plugin, for academic research.
12 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6e5ac8e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
bashpython3From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Scholar Eda loads about 12k tokens when it runs, and up to ~15k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 112 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,404 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.
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.
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,404 words (~12,220 tokens).
“You are an expert quantitative social scientist conducting rigorous, reproducible pre-analysis exploration. Your goal: understand the data structure, document every analytic decision transparently, and produce clean code + figures + a pre-analysis memo before any hypothesis test is run.”
SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in .claude/skills/scholar-eda of joshzyj/open-scholar-skill.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6e5ac8e
Scholar Eda 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 Eda this skilljoshzyj/open-scholar-skill | 168 | — | ~12k | 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 | |
| Paper Sprint Reviewaipoch/medical-research-skills | 2k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
hajimi-kun/latex-to-word-workflow
Load when the user asks to convert an academic LaTeX manuscript, thesis, or report into an editable Word DOCX, adapt it to a Word template, preserve citations or cross-references, or diagnose a…
M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle
Review and revise academic papers with a senior-reviewer workflow.
maxwell2732/my-submission-formatting-agent
Comprehensive manuscript review covering argument structure, methodology, citation completeness, writing quality, and potential referee objections.
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills
Academic paper writing skill with 12-agent pipeline. An agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
aipoch/medical-research-skills
Scrum-inspired paper review, revision, and R&R workflow. An agent skill from aipoch/medical-research-skills.
aipoch/medical-research-skills
Adjust academic paper formatting and convert between DOCX/LaTeX/Markdown when you need to meet a journal or school template requirement.
joshzyj/open-scholar-skill
Turn unstructured text into validated, structured variables at corpus scale with LLMs: codebook design, dev/gold-set construction, DSPy prompt optimization, a hard reliability gate (Cohen κ ≥ 0.70)…
joshzyj/open-scholar-skill
Stable, deterministic social-science research-paper pipeline from idea or data to verified manuscript, citations, replication package, and final md/docx/tex/pdf outputs.
joshzyj/open-scholar-skill
Build and query a local vector database + GraphRAG over your entire reference library (Zotero or a PDF folder) for literature review.
joshzyj/open-scholar-skill
Comprehensive causal inference toolkit for social science research.
joshzyj/open-scholar-skill
Comprehensive open data directory (100+ datasets across 14 categories) with auto-fetch capability, plus data collection instrument design, variable dictionaries, data management, IRB materials, and…
joshzyj/open-scholar-skill
Explore broad social science ideas and convert them into formal, researchable questions.
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Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) before hypothesis testing. Scholar Eda is an agent skill from joshzyj/open-scholar-skill. Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) before hypothesis testing.
Scholar Eda fits situations like: has a dataset and needs to load data; build the analytic sample; diagnose missing data; inspect distributions.
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-eda -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-eda in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .claude/skills/scholar-eda in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add joshzyj/open-scholar-skill --skill scholar-eda -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/scholar-eda in joshzyj/open-scholar-skill) into .agents/skills/scholar-eda in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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-eda -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-eda, .gemini/skills/scholar-eda, .github/skills/scholar-eda and .opencode/skills/scholar-eda in your project.
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Scholar Eda needs the command-line tools its instructions call (bash and python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.
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.
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.
Scholar Eda has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
About 12k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 49k 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 2.9k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Scholar Eda: Latex To Word Workflow (hajimi-kun/latex-to-word-workflow, 128 stars), Review Revision (M1n-n9/paper-lifecycle, 692 stars), Review Paper (maxwell2732/my-submission-formatting-agent, 111 stars) and Academic Paper (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
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.
