Verified Agent Skill record

auto-empirical-research-skills

Route empirical-research requests through the Auto-Empirical Research Skills catalog when the whole repository is installed as one skill in an IDE. Use to choose and load the right vendored AERS skill for causal inference, econometrics, replication, manuscript writing, citation checking, de-AIGC editing, or full empirical-paper workflows without reading the entire repository at once.

Tasks

Classify an empirical-research request by stage and route it to the single best-matching skill from the catalog (e.g., start with skills/69-Paper-WorkFlow/ for full pipeline, or skills/50-brycewang-aer-skills/ for AER economics journal work)
Locate a specific causal inference method in the catalog, such as instrumental variables (IV) or regression discontinuity (RDD), using the Method table and confirming against catalog/skills.json

Inputs

User's empirical-research task or identification strategy
catalog/skills.json
docs/TAXONOMY.md

Outputs

Selected child skill's SKILL.md content
Progressive-disclosure instructions from the selected skill's references/, scripts/, assets/, or templates

Limitations and checks

The catalog contains 92 bare names shared across collections, causing collisions when runtimes register by flat name
The catalog holds 1,150 skills across 69 vendored collections; broad recursive reads of skills/ must be avoided
skills/69-Paper-WorkFlow/ is a git submodule requiring separate git status inspection before editing
Confirm the selected child skill matches the user's identification strategy by cross-referencing the Method table against catalog/skills.json before reading the child SKILL.md
Verify no name collisions exist when installing a collection by using the qualified_name field (<collection>::<name>) or the full skills/<collection>/.../SKILL.md path
Inspect git status inside skills/69-Paper-WorkFlow/ before touching that submodule if editing the repository
Ensure only the single best-matching child skill's SKILL.md is read, avoiding loading multiple vendored skills simultaneously