marginaleffects

marginaleffects is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from letitbk/claude-academic-setup. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,642 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An R package for calculating how model inputs affect predictions, including average effects, group comparisons, and predicted values. R is a programming language commonly used for statistics and data analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate average marginal effects, slopes, contrasts between categories, and predictions from regression models.
Why use it?
It turns regression-model results into interpretable changes, such as the predicted difference between groups or the effect of increasing a variable by one unit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/letitbk/claude-academic-setup/marginaleffects
Any agent
npx skills add letitbk/claude-academic-setup --skill marginaleffects
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/letitbk/claude-academic-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00060 $0.01642
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00164

Measured 5d ago against content hash ba8278051a85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

marginaleffects 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.

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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/marginaleffects/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

marginaleffects

Compute marginal effects, comparisons, and predictions in R. This skill covers computation only — for plotting, use /marginal-effects-plot or /coefficient-plot.

Reference: https://marginaleffects.com/

Three Core Functions

Function What it computes When to use
avg_slopes() / slopes() Partial derivatives (instantaneous rate of change) Continuous variables: "effect of a 1-unit increase"
avg_comparisons() / comparisons() Discrete changes (finite differences) Factor contrasts OR custom continuous contrasts
avg_predictions() / predictions() Predicted values at observed or specified data "What's the predicted outcome for group X?"

The avg_* versions average across observations (AMEs). The non-avg_ versions return observation-level estimates.

Quick Start

library(marginaleffects)
library(data.table)

model <- glm(y ~ x1 + x2 + factor(group), data = df, family = binomial)

# Average marginal effects (continuous vars = slopes, factors = contrasts)
avg_slopes(model, type = "response")

# Pairwise factor contrasts
avg_comparisons(model, variables = list(group = "pairwise"), type = "response")

# Predicted probabilities by group
avg_predictions(model, by = "group", type = "response")

Patterns by Model Type

OLS: lm()

model <- lm(y ~ x1 + x2 + factor(treatment), data = df)

# AMEs — straightforward, no type argument needed
avg_slopes(model)

# Factor contrasts (pairwise)
avg_comparisons(model, variables = list(treatment = "pairwise"))

# Contrast against reference level (default behavior)
avg_comparisons(model, variables = list(treatment = "reference"))

# Robust SEs
avg_slopes(model, vcov = "HC3")

Logit/Probit: glm()

model <- glm(y ~ x1 + factor(treatment), data = df, family = binomial)

# AMEs on probability scale — ALWAYS specify type = "response"
avg_slopes(model, type = "response")

# Factor contrasts on probability scale
avg_comparisons(model, variables = list(treatment = "pairwise"), type = "response")

# Predictions on probability scale
avg_predictions(model, by = "treatment", type = "response")

# Clustered SEs
avg_slopes(model, type = "response", vcov = ~cluster_id)

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 lines

Changes

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  1. 5d ago First seen · 196 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A ba8278051a85

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marginaleffects is a skill published in the GitHub repository letitbk/claude-academic-setup (43 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,642 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 2026-08-30.

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