Start a new research project by conducting a structured interview to formalize a research idea, then generates research questions with identification strategies and a project spec. Make sure to use this skill whenever the user wants to develop or document a new research idea — not to search for literature or data. Triggers include: "new project", "start research", "I have an idea", "help me develop this", "I want to study X", "help me formalize this idea", "what's my research question", "what identification strategy should I use", "write up my project idea", or when the user describes a topic they want to turn into a paper.
New Research Project Formalize a research idea into a concrete project specification with testable hypotheses and empirical strategies. Input: — a topic, phenomenon, dataset, or "start fresh" for open ended exploration. This skill runs in three phases . Phase 1 is conversational — ask one or two questions at a time and wait for responses. Phases 2 and 3 run automatically after the interview. Phase 1: Research Interview Goal: Draw out the researcher's thinking and establish a clear research…
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Destination: .claude/skills/new-project · pinned to the source commit
# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 692e9fa3fea40bbdf614584d461851f8fb968ac2
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/skills/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/new-project" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpReview the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y gitnpm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 692e9fa3fea40bbdf614584d461851f8fb968ac2
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/skills/15-Felpix-Studios-social-science-research/skills/new-project" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpDestination: .claude/skills/new-project
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