causal-design

causal-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow. It costs 211 tokens per session (4,017 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for choosing a defensible method to answer cause-and-effect questions from data. It directs questions to methods such as panel fixed effects, doubly robust estimation, double machine learning, causal forests, and policy learning when the data supports them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess observational data, check overlap between groups, estimate treatment effects, study panels, learn policies, and evaluate sensitivity to hidden bias.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using a causal method that the available data cannot justify and identifies where assumptions or sensitivity checks are needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to assess observational data, check overlap between groups, estimate treatment effects, study panels, learn policies, and evaluate sensitivity to hidden bias.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow/causal-design
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow --skill causal-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 211 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,017 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 unknown 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 $0.00211 $0.04017
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.02008
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00803
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00402

Measured 10d ago against content hash 813e7250d673, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

causal-design 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 10d 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.

skills/causal-design/SKILL.md · 240 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 240 lines · 211 tokens per session scan A 813e7250d673

Subscribe to this mod's changes

causal-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow (13 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 211 tokens to every session and 4,017 once invoked, about $0.0011 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.

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