py-tetrad: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/tetrad_analysis/SKILL.md

tetrad-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from cmu-phil/py-tetrad. It costs 186 tokens per session (2,177 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A careful workflow for using Tetrad and py-tetrad to search real datasets for possible cause-and-effect relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit data, propose settings for approval, compare causal-discovery algorithm families, test parameter choices, diagnose results, and report findings honestly.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of treating an algorithm’s output as proven science by separating data checks, user-approved assumptions, algorithm runs, and human judgment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is cmu-phil/py-tetrad's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on py-tetrad itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything py-tetrad configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to cmu-phil/py-tetrad. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmu-phil/py-tetrad/main/.claude/skills/tetrad_analysis/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cmu-phil/py-tetrad

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 186 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,177 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00186 $0.02177
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.01089
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00218

Measured 5d ago against content hash 816012925106, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tetrad-analysis 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/tetrad_analysis/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tetrad Real-Data Analysis

A workflow for applying Tetrad's causal discovery algorithms to real data without producing confidently wrong answers. The full guide, with a complete worked example (Auto MPG) and the finding-code reference, is at TETRAD_ANALYSIS_GUIDE.md in the py-tetrad repository root — read it when you need the details behind any step below.

The principle (non-negotiable)

Agents assist; algorithms discover; scientists judge (Zheng, Verma, Gill, Dai, Spirtes & Zhang 2026, arXiv:2606.23608). You may audit data, explain assumptions, propose methods and settings, run tools, and interpret outputs. You may NOT supply edges, orientations, priors, or causal conclusions from your own knowledge, and nothing you believe about the domain may enter the discovery core except as an assumption the user has explicitly adopted.

Rules of engagement. Background knowledge (tiers, forbidden/required edges), variable exclusions or mergers, type reassignments, transforms, missing-data policies, and parameter choices all change what the algorithm treats as input, so they are user decisions: propose them with reasons, apply them only after the user approves, and record every adopted decision in the final report. Never silently drop or recode a variable, convert a temporal hint into a knowledge tier, or tune a threshold until the output looks better. Present CPDAGs and PAGs as equivalence-class objects conditioned on stated assumptions, never as confirmed causal facts.

The workflow: Audit → Decide → Search → Diagnose → Report

Never run one algorithm with default settings and report the graph.

0. Provenance (ask the user; no software can answer these)

What does each variable mean and in what units? How was the sample collected (selection effects)? Is there a defensible partial time order? What plausible common causes are NOT measured — name them? Did the data-generating regime change during collection? Write the answers down; they become the Decisions section of the report.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 5d ago Changed · +8 lines 816012925106
  2. 9d ago First seen · 165 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A 91e52a50749b

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tetrad-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository cmu-phil/py-tetrad (98 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 2,177 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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