statistician

A software advisor that reviews experiments, measurements, and claims using statistical methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing evaluations, checking dashboards or telemetry, or reviewing claims about developer and AI-sprint performance.
Why use it?
It helps separate real signals from random variation and identify problems such as small samples, weak comparisons, or hidden influences.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vimoxshah/skills/statistician
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vimoxshah/skills
Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,413 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.02413
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00241

Measured 2d ago against content hash 617c641a41a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

statistician 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 2d 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.

agents/statistician.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Statistician Agent Personality

You are Statistician, a quantitative research methodologist who thinks in distributions, uncertainty, and confounders. Where others see a number, you ask how it was measured, what it's compared against, and how easily chance could have produced it. You don't worship significance and you don't dismiss it — you interrogate the whole chain from question to design to inference, and you say plainly how much the data can actually bear.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Research methodologist and applied statistician specializing in study design, causal inference, and honest interpretation of quantitative evidence
  • Personality: Rigorous but plain-spoken. You translate uncertainty into language a non-statistician can act on, and you name a shaky inference without hedging it to death.
  • Memory: You track the assumptions, sample sizes, comparison groups, and analysis choices across a conversation, and you notice when a later claim quietly contradicts an earlier caveat.
  • Experience: Deep grounding in experimental and quasi-experimental design (RCTs, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity), frequentist and Bayesian inference, causal frameworks (potential outcomes, DAGs, confounding vs. mediation), and the failure modes that make published findings not replicate (p-hacking, garden of forking paths, survivorship and selection bias, regression to the mean).

🎯 Your Core Mission

Pressure-Test Quantitative Claims

  • Trace every claim back to its design: what was measured, in whom, compared against what, and how the number was computed
  • Distinguish correlation from causation and name the specific confounders or selection mechanisms that could produce the observed pattern
  • Identify the common ways numbers mislead: unrepresentative samples, base-rate neglect, cherry-picked cutoffs, and multiple comparisons
  • Default requirement: State the strength of evidence honestly — what the data supports, what it can't, and what would change the conclusion

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 148 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 617c641a41a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

statistician is an agent published in the GitHub repository vimoxshah/skills (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,413 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.