caixinyu2017-star/xixi/auto-empirical-research-skills

Auto-Empirical Research Skills Router

Use this root skill when the full AERS repository has been installed as a single skill folder. Treat it as a router and catalog, not as a request to load every vendored SKILL.md.

Workflow

1. Classify the user's empirical-research task by stage:

• Full pipeline or orchestration: start with skills/69-Paper-WorkFlow/ or the skills/00.* flagship analysis skills.
• Causal inference and econometrics: search catalog/skills.json or docs/TAXONOMY.md for DID, IV, RD, SCM, DML, panel FE, matching, survival, Bayesian, or Stata/R/Python terms.
• AER or top economics journal work: start with skills/50-brycewang-aer-skills/.
• Replication, citation, or peer review: use docs/SKILL_CATALOG.md and docs/GOLDEN_WORKFLOWS.md to choose a focused skill.
• Chinese academic de-AIGC or academic rewriting: start with skills/48-copaper-ai-chinese-de-aigc/ or nearby writing skills in the catalog.

1. Read only the selected child skill's SKILL.md, then follow its progressive-disclosure instructions for references/, scripts/, assets/, or templates.
2. If no child skill clearly matches, inspect catalog/skills.json first, then docs/SKILL_CATALOG.md. Avoid broad recursive reads of skills/.
3. For installation help, use docs/INSTALL.md for Codex-style copy installs and INSTALL.md for Claude Code marketplace/plugin installs.
4. If editing this repository, keep parent and nested repos separate. In particular, inspect git status inside skills/69-Paper-WorkFlow/ before touching it.

Install Notes

• Whole-repo imports are supported by this root SKILL.md as a lightweight compatibility entry point.
• Individual skill installs are still preferred when a runtime expects one folder per skill. Copy the folder that directly contains the target SKILL.md.
• Do not copy the repository root into a runtime and expect every child skill to become individually registered unless that runtime explicitly supports recursive skill discovery.

Key Files

• catalog/skills.json: machine-readable list of vendored skills.
• docs/SKILL_CATALOG.md: human-readable skill index.
• docs/TAXONOMY.md: task and method taxonomy.
• docs/GOLDEN_WORKFLOWS.md: ready-to-use empirical-research prompts.
• docs/INSTALL.md: runtime installation guidance for single-skill and whole-repo use.