synthetic-data

synthetic-data is a skill for Claude Code from flonat/flonat-research. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for generating realistic-looking synthetic datasets from a schema, experiment design, or published summary statistics. Synthetic data is made-up data used for development rather than governed real records.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prototype pipelines, test analysis code, simulate power analyses, develop methods, and create teaching or proposal examples.
Why use it?
Analysis code and data pipelines often need testing before real data are available or accessible. Synthetic records provide safe inputs for that early work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit It helps prototype pipelines, test analysis code, simulate power analyses, develop methods, and create teaching or proposal examples.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flonat/flonat-research/synthetic-data
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 flonat/flonat-research --skill synthetic-data
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flonat/flonat-research

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,294 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 $0.00048 $0.02294
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01147
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00229

Measured 5d ago against content hash 03e1730714d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthetic-data 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.

skills/synthetic-data/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthetic Data Generation

Generate structurally realistic synthetic datasets for pilot testing, power analysis, and method development.

Modes

Mode What it produces Entry point
From design Synthetic data matching an existing experiment design document "Generate test data for my experiment"
From schema Synthetic data from a user-described structure "Create a dataset with these variables"
Calibrated Synthetic data calibrated to published summary statistics "Make fake data matching these descriptives"

Default: From schema. If an experiment design document exists in docs/, auto-select From design. If user provides published statistics, auto-select Calibrated.

When to Use

  • Testing analysis code before real data collection
  • Power analysis via simulation (complements experiment-design Power mode)
  • Method development and debugging estimation pipelines
  • Generating pilot data for grant proposals or ethics applications
  • Teaching demonstrations with realistic-looking data

When NOT to Use

  • Designing the experiment itself --> experiment-design
  • Running analysis on real data --> data-analysis
  • Auditing identification strategy --> causal-design

Workflow

Step 1: Detect Mode

Detect from context or ask:

Signal Mode
docs/experiment-design.md exists From design
User describes variables, types, relationships From schema
User provides means, SDs, correlations from a paper Calibrated
Ambiguous Ask

Step 2: Interview for Data Structure

Gather the following (adapt questions to mode):

Parameter Question Default
Variables What variables do you need?
Types Continuous, binary, ordinal, categorical? Infer from name
Sample size How many observations? 500
Treatment Is there a treatment variable? How many arms?
Effect size Expected treatment effect (Cohen's d, OR, etc.)? 0.3 (small-medium)
Correlations Which variables should be correlated? How strongly?
Clustering Are observations nested (e.g., students in classrooms)? No
Panel structure Multiple time periods? How many? Cross-section
Missing data Should the data include realistic missingness? No
Language R or Python? Detect from project or ask

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 248 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 03e1730714d3

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synthetic-data is a skill published in the GitHub repository flonat/flonat-research (132 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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