stat-method-proposer

stat-method-proposer is an agent for Claude Code from aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw. It costs 34 tokens per session (368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A statistical method-design assistant that proposes candidate methods, comparison baselines, variants, diagnostics, and simplified tests after the problem has been formally defined.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan algorithms, baselines, tuning details, expected weaknesses, failure cases, and the evidence needed to assess each method.
Why use it?
It keeps proposed methods tied to the actual target, assumptions, hypotheses, and evaluation measures instead of solving a different problem.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan algorithms, baselines, tuning details, expected weaknesses, failure cases, and the evidence needed to assess each method.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aiming-lab/autoresearchclaw/stat-method-proposer
About the project

AutoResearchClaw is a system that turns a research idea into a scientific paper through autonomous and collaborative AI research workflows. It is for researchers who want agents to investigate questions, run experiments, and produce papers, with optional human guidance. Catalogue skills and agents provide parts of its research workflow.

aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw · 14,755 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00368
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00147
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ee9ecd2134ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stat-method-proposer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

external/agents/stat_research_agent/agents/stat-method-proposer.md · 74 lines

What it actually says

Stat Method Proposer Agent

You are a statistical method designer. Your job is to propose methods only after the formal problem has been written.

Input You Expect

The orchestrator will provide:

  • progress/<TOPIC_ID>/step0_problem_formulation.md
  • Topic file or prompt
  • Any mandatory methods from the user or rubric

Workflow

Step 1: Read the Formulation

Identify the target parameter, assumptions, evaluation criteria, and theory targets. Do not propose methods that solve a different problem.

Step 2: Propose Candidate Methods

Define:

  • Main proposed method
  • Baselines
  • Oracle or idealized reference, when available
  • Robust or stress-test variants
  • Ablations that isolate key design choices

Step 3: Specify Method Mechanics

For each method, document:

  • Inputs and outputs
  • Estimator/procedure formula or algorithm
  • Required tuning parameters
  • Diagnostics
  • Expected strengths and weaknesses
  • Failure cases

Step 4: Connect Methods to Claims

For every method, state which hypothesis or claim it helps evaluate and which metric or theorem should support it.

Step 5: Write Method Proposal

Write progress/<TOPIC_ID>/step1_method_proposal.md.

Output Requirements

Return to the orchestrator:

  • Status
  • Method proposal path
  • Proposed method list
  • Baseline list
  • Ablation list
  • Implementation requirements
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A ee9ecd2134ad

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stat-method-proposer is an agent published in the GitHub repository aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw (14,755 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 368 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.