Claude Skills by scdenney

Consult an independent, read-only GPT-5.6 advisor before committing to a substantive interpretation, approach, or final result. Not for routine work, implementation, or file edits. Always gpt-5.6-sol at xhigh effort, the flagship tier at its strongest routine setting.

Audits the citation layer of a manuscript — in-text and reference-list parity, fabricated or nonexistent sources, DOIs that resolve to a different work, style and completeness against APA 7 or a named journal style, and whether each cited work actually supports the claim attached to it. Verifies against Crossref, OpenAlex, DataCite, and Semantic Scholar, drives LaTeX audits off the keys actually cited, and marks anything it cannot check as NOT CHECKED rather than guessing. Use when the user a...

Turns a raw Qualtrics conjoint export into an analysis-ready long-format dataset — export settings and metadata rows, identifying which Qualtrics implementation produced the file, reshaping wide to long by hand or with cjoint read.qualtrics and cjdata reshape_conjoint, mapping the choice variable onto profiles, ratings and secondary DVs, attribute-level translation and factor ordering, pilot data-quality diagnostics, and subgroup merges. Use when the user has a conjoint CSV and asks how to cl...

Designs conjoint and factorial-vignette experiments end to end — attribute architecture and randomization restrictions, effective-N power from the closed-form AMCE standard error, treatment realism, estimand choice among AMCE, marginal means, and AMIE, design variants such as forced choice versus rating, PAP tiers for conjoint flexibility, and the regression models and R packages that implement each. Use when the user is planning a conjoint, drafting or critiquing an attribute table, asking h...

Reviews an existing conjoint study for threats to inference and returns prioritized findings across five areas — design integrity (attributes, profile restrictions, task count and satisficing, randomization, power), estimation (estimand clarity, reference levels, subgroups, clustered standard errors, multiple testing), measurement error, external validity and behavioral benchmarking, and interpretation, including the guard-rail against reading an AMCE as a majority preference. Use when the us...

Designs multi-country survey experiments — case selection with a stated comparative logic, instrument localization and TRAPD translation, origin-country and composition choices for stimuli, per-country power and error management, and a pooled-versus-per-country analytical strategy with measurement-equivalence checks. Use when the user is fielding the same experiment in several countries, asks which countries to include and why, asks how to translate or adapt an instrument without breaking com...

Generate 3-5 conceptually distinct approaches labeled by creativity dimension (Novel, Surprising, Diverse, Conventional) and hold for selection instead of implementing the first idea; the --codex mode delegates the brainstorm to a fresh Codex subagent for a clean, unanchored context and hands it the selected approach to implement. Use when a task has more than one non-obvious solution — creative, architectural, or analytical work — and before committing to an approach; use --codex when the us...

Read or convert any document a research workflow hands you — PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, or CSV. Use whenever a document has to be read, opened, quoted, summarized, searched, extracted, or added to a source library. Decides whether to read the file directly or convert it, picks the converter from the document's actual structure, and decides whether the resulting Markdown is a tracked artifact or a scratch file to delete.

Fact-check manuscript claims against cited sources in a per-source Markdown knowledge base. Use to audit claim support, overclaiming, direction, scope, and misattribution after source intake is complete.

End-stage QA on a finished figure and table set — an inventory with in-text callouts and producing scripts, cross-reference and numbering checks, text-to-evidence consistency between claims and plotted or tabulated values, captions and statistical notes that stand alone, accessibility and production quality, and SI and replication-package linkage. Marks anything requiring values read off an image as needing author verification rather than inventing them. Use when the user is preparing a submi...

Design and format publication-quality figures. Use for chart choice, color, scales, legends, captions, accessibility, and reproducible figure workflows.

Turns a theory into falsifiable, pre-registerable hypotheses — DAGs and backdoor closure, how the design resolves the FPCI, SATE versus PATE, counterfactual and directional framing, a named theoretical and empirical estimand, a justified SESOI, the choice among NHST, interval, equivalence (TOST), and minimum-effect tests, scope conditions, and primary, secondary, and exploratory tiers across multi-experiment designs. Use when the user has a research question or theory and asks to turn it into...

Drafts a referee report on someone else's manuscript for a journal editor — a recommendation, a summary of the claim and design, three to six major concerns that drive the decision, additional concerns, and a coherent revision plan, produced by five parallel adversarial finders (Breaker, Butcher, Shredder, Void, Situator), a Blue Team error filter, a Chief Reviewer synthesis, and a Tone Guard legal pass, with an optional confidential note to the editor. Use when the user has been asked to ref...

Designs and diagnoses list experiments (the item count technique) — whether indirect measurement is warranted at all, control-list construction against ceiling and floor effects, design variants such as double list and direct-question pairing, difference-in-means and maximum-likelihood estimators via ictreg, the no-design-effect and no-liar assumptions with ict.test and ict.hausman.test, corrections for common failures, and power planning that accounts for the large precision penalty. Use whe...

Build or audit a literature review. Use for evidence maps, gap analysis, contribution checks, source verification, and synthesis planning.

Reads a model's own uncertainty off its token log-probabilities — collecting logprobs and aggregating multi-token labels, confidence tiers and margins for triage, calibration assessment with ECE, Brier scores, and reliability diagrams, using confidence downstream without laundering it into evidence, and what to archive for reproducibility. Use when the user asks how confident a classifier was on each item, asks about logprobs, top-k tokens, calibration, ECE, Brier, or reliability diagrams, or...

Audits a methods section against a 45-item checklist synthesized from the APSA Experimental Section rubric, JARS-Quant, CONSORT, and DA-RT — pre-registration and design documentation, subjects and recruitment, randomization and treatment detail, CONSORT-style sample flow with attrition, statistical analysis with sample-size justification and three-tier results labeling, conjoint-specific reporting, the four validity types, and open-science infrastructure. Use when the user asks whether a meth...

Run one consequential, contestable decision through a deliberative committee of GPT-5.6 and Claude Opus 5, chaired by opus (default), fable, or sol. Not for factual lookups, brainstorming, routine implementation, independent-coder reliability, or final professional judgment. Use when several options are defensible and the two model families should propose, critique, revise, and cross-rank under a predeclared rubric.

Runs several language models as independent coders on the same labeling or discovery task and reads their disagreement as data — panel assembly for model diversity, keeping votes independent, consensus rules, agreement statistics (Cohen's and Fleiss kappa, Krippendorff's alpha), the correlated-errors caveat that stops agreement being mistaken for validity, human validation beyond the panel, and reporting. Use when the user asks about a council, panel, ensemble, or jury of models, asks how to ...

Draft or audit scientific introductions. Use for argument logic, framing, contribution structure, and coherence across multiple studies or experiments.

Orchestrate complex work as the Codex lead, with a gpt-5.6-sol lead at xhigh effort owning decomposition, integration, and verification while delegating bounded work to cheaper GPT-5.6 tiers and a cross-vendor Claude peer. Not for routine single-context work. Use when the user explicitly asks to orchestrate, delegate, fan out, parallelize, assign subagents, obtain independent checks, or have Codex act as tech lead.

Run a pre-submission manuscript audit covering argument, numerics, references, writing, figures, methods, preregistration, and replication readiness. Add --codex for a cross-model pass in which Codex and Claude review independently and verify each other's findings.

Typeset a working paper or journal submission in house-style LaTeX from Markdown, Word, TeX, ODT, RTF, or HTML. Use to convert drafts, build PDFs, or prepare journal-specific spacing, limits, anonymization, disclosures, and citations.

Writes a pre-analysis plan before data collection — registry selection (OSF, AsPredicted, AEA, EGAP), PAP document structure, an analytical strategy specified down to the model and the decision rule, analysis code pre-registered against simulated data, contingency planning for attrition, failed manipulations, and exclusions, deviation documentation, and timeline. Operationalizes the pre-data-collection side of DA-RT. Use when the user asks to write or review a pre-registration or PAP, asks wh...

Operate or audit a live Qualtrics survey via the v3 APIs without breaking fielding — publish gating, quotas, flow routing, embedded data, panel-vendor redirects, read-back verification, and a read-only pre-fielding audit. Use when publishing or patching a fielding instrument, when a quota counts but never blocks, when wiring panel-vendor redirects or flow gates, or when auditing a survey before launch (consent-before-anything gates, force-response completeness, quota and redirect checks, anti...

Organizes and formats an author's response to peer review — extracts every distinct point from the referee reports and the editor's letter, tags severity and type, maps the dependencies so the revision runs in the right order, flags which points the author may want to push back on, and builds the response-to-reviewers letter as a numbered comment → response → location table with the substantive answers left for the author to write. It formats and checks the response; it never writes the scien...

Scaffold or audit a social-science replication package, and audit the manuscript and its archived research objects against the FAIR principles. Scaffold mode writes the folder structure, README, master.R, figure/table crosswalk, codebook template, LICENSE placeholder, .gitignore, and pre-release checklist. Audit mode grades an existing package against that checklist and runs the FAIR block over data, code, materials, prompts, preregistrations, DOIs, metadata, licenses, access restrictions, an...

Interviews a researcher, in rounds, until a research idea, design, or draft has no silently assumed decision left — every question numbered, each with a plain-language "why this matters" and a recommended answer, facts fetched by the assistant rather than asked, and every settled decision written to a file. Three stages, idea (a topic or hunch → a falsifiable question and a contribution claim), design (a question → estimand, identification, sample and power, measurement, pre-registration, ana...

Scaffold or audit an entire research project repository organized around its source library. Use when starting, structuring, organizing, or reviewing a research repo. Build sources/{og,md,unprocessed}, references.bib, a PDF-to-Markdown converter, a repo-local process-source skill, AGENTS.md, .gitignore, .venv, and the relevant analysis/manuscript/review folders; or audit an existing layout. Not for one-PDF intake or publication replication packages.

Plan a research project as a durable decision map, resolving one design decision per session until the destination is a defensible, pre-registerable design. Not for executing analyses or writing the paper. Use at the start of a project, when a design has more open decisions than one conversation holds, or when planning keeps restarting.

Spawn full peer Codex or Claude sessions in their own panes and git worktrees — real sessions, not subagents — briefed by the lead and merged back. Not for bounded consults a subagent covers. Use when work must outlive or run beside this session, needs its own worktree, or must stay user-steerable.

Audit fielded survey response data for registered elements, data quality, bot and AI-automation screening, and sample integrity. Emits an appendix-ready quality report.

Designs survey instruments — item-specific question wording that avoids acquiescence, double-barreling, and leading language, scale construction (points, labeling, polarity, feeling thermometers, index reliability with Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega), flow and ordering with treatment placement and buffer items, pretesting through cognitive interviews and soft launches, respondent burden with attention checks and speeding rules, sensitive questions and social-desirability bias, and trea...

Design and format publication-quality tables. Use for column order, row grouping, notes, statistical precision, accessibility, and reproducibility.

Designs and validates LLM-based text classification for research data — codebook construction, choice of learning regime, model selection and reproducibility, prompt construction, pilot validation against human coding with agreement statistics (kappa, F1), hybrid human-LLM workflows, and reporting model-coded data. Also carries a resumable batch pipeline with a rule-based baseline for coding large sets of repeated free-text values against a closed codebook — occupation, institution, and regis...

Specifies and diagnoses structural topic models for survey and experimental text — choosing among STM, LDA, and BERTopic, preprocessing decisions and their consequences, prevalence and content formulas with spectral initialization and a recorded seed, selecting the topic count across semantic coherence, exclusivity and FREX, held-out likelihood, and residuals rather than one metric, interpretation and validation against representative documents, robustness checks, and DA-RT-compliant reportin...

OCR scanned or image-only corpora with vision-language models, in three phases. Use `evaluate` to compare candidate OCR systems against stratified human ground truth and pick one on measured CER/WER, `run` to build the production pipeline (model selection, image handling, prompts, architecture, batching, accuracy evaluation, reproducibility), and `clean` to correct raw OCR text with LLM and rule-based passes, quality diagnostics, multilingual handling, and span-level provenance. Not for born-...

Consult Fable 5.1 as an independent second reviewer, always at max reasoning effort. The calling session is the main model — Opus 5 or Sonnet 5 — and Fable holds the advisor seat. Use before committing to an interpretation or a substantial piece of writing/analysis, when stuck (recurring errors, a non-converging approach, results that do not fit), when considering a change of approach, or when you believe a task is complete and want a check before finalizing. Fallback for when the native advi...

Audits the citation layer of a manuscript — in-text and reference-list parity, fabricated or nonexistent sources, DOIs that resolve to a different work, style and completeness against APA 7 or a named journal style, and whether each cited work actually supports the claim attached to it. Verifies against Crossref, OpenAlex, DataCite, and Semantic Scholar, drives LaTeX audits off the keys actually cited, and marks anything it cannot check as NOT CHECKED rather than guessing. Use when the user a...

Turns a raw Qualtrics conjoint export into an analysis-ready long-format dataset — export settings and metadata rows, identifying which Qualtrics implementation produced the file, reshaping wide to long by hand or with cjoint read.qualtrics and cjdata reshape_conjoint, mapping the choice variable onto profiles, ratings and secondary DVs, attribute-level translation and factor ordering, pilot data-quality diagnostics, and subgroup merges. Use when the user has a conjoint CSV and asks how to cl...

Designs conjoint and factorial-vignette experiments end to end — attribute architecture and randomization restrictions, effective-N power from the closed-form AMCE standard error, treatment realism, estimand choice among AMCE, marginal means, and AMIE, design variants such as forced choice versus rating, PAP tiers for conjoint flexibility, and the regression models and R packages that implement each. Use when the user is planning a conjoint, drafting or critiquing an attribute table, asking h...

Reviews an existing conjoint study for threats to inference and returns prioritized findings across five areas — design integrity (attributes, profile restrictions, task count and satisficing, randomization, power), estimation (estimand clarity, reference levels, subgroups, clustered standard errors, multiple testing), measurement error, external validity and behavioral benchmarking, and interpretation, including the guard-rail against reading an AMCE as a majority preference. Use when the us...

Designs multi-country survey experiments — case selection with a stated comparative logic, instrument localization and TRAPD translation, origin-country and composition choices for stimuli, per-country power and error management, and a pooled-versus-per-country analytical strategy with measurement-equivalence checks. Use when the user is fielding the same experiment in several countries, asks which countries to include and why, asks how to translate or adapt an instrument without breaking com...

Generate 3-5 conceptually distinct approaches labeled by creativity dimension (Novel, Surprising, Diverse, Conventional) and hold for selection instead of implementing the first idea; the --codex mode runs the same brainstorm on GPT-5.6 Sol via codex exec, then has Codex implement the selected approach. Use when a task has more than one non-obvious solution — creative, architectural, or analytical work — and before committing to an approach; use --codex when a second model family should widen...

Read or convert any document a research workflow hands you — PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, or CSV. Fires whenever a document has to be read, opened, quoted, summarized, searched, extracted, or added to a source library, including plain phrasings like "read this paper", "what does this PDF say", "pull the tables out of this", "summarize the attached report", "add this to my sources", or a bare path to a document file. Decides whether to read the file directly or conver...

Fact-check a manuscript's claims against the cited sources themselves. Locate each source's knowledge-base Markdown file and verify the in-text claim is actually supported. Runs a pre-flight gate that refuses unless a per-source Markdown knowledge base exists and is clean, one file per cited source, with every raw PDF already converted; then runs citation-check; then audits claim support, overclaiming, direction, scope, and misattribution.

End-stage QA on a finished figure and table set — an inventory with in-text callouts and producing scripts, cross-reference and numbering checks, text-to-evidence consistency between claims and plotted or tabulated values, captions and statistical notes that stand alone, accessibility and production quality, and SI and replication-package linkage. Marks anything requiring values read off an image as needing author verification rather than inventing them. Use when the user is preparing a submi...

Designs and formats publication-quality figures for social-science manuscripts — chart type, scales, color, legend order, self-contained captions, and script-based reproducibility. Use when the user is making, revising, or critiquing a figure for a paper — a coefficient plot, small multiples, a distribution or trend plot, a map, a network — or asks about axis labels, a colorblind-safe palette, legend ordering, direct labeling, or figure captions. Prefer this over general data-visualization gu...

Turns a theory into falsifiable, pre-registerable hypotheses — DAGs and backdoor closure, how the design resolves the FPCI, SATE versus PATE, counterfactual and directional framing, a named theoretical and empirical estimand, a justified SESOI, the choice among NHST, interval, equivalence (TOST), and minimum-effect tests, scope conditions, and primary, secondary, and exploratory tiers across multi-experiment designs. Use when the user has a research question or theory and asks to turn it into...

Drafts a referee report on someone else's manuscript for a journal editor — a recommendation, a summary of the claim and design, three to six major concerns that drive the decision, additional concerns, and a coherent revision plan, produced by five parallel adversarial finders (Breaker, Butcher, Shredder, Void, Situator), a Blue Team error filter, a Chief Reviewer synthesis, and a Tone Guard legal pass, with an optional confidential note to the editor. Use when the user has been asked to ref...