data-scientist

data-scientist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (3,381 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of data-scientist, MIT.

A specialist guide to statistics, machine learning, experiments, and research methods, including ways to measure cause and effect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for statistical analysis, experiment design, causal studies, machine-learning model selection, and data-science project leadership.
Why use it?
It helps choose sound methods for analysing data and running experiments, while directing insurance and financial-model tasks to more specific guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it for statistical analysis, experiment design, causal studies, machine-learning model selection, and data-science project leadership.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/data-scientist
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 magnus919/agent-skills --skill data-scientist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin data-scientist/plugin install data-scientist after adding the marketplace above.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,381 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00145 $0.03381
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01690
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00676
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00338

Measured 6d ago against content hash 641d7160b595, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

data-scientist 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (scripts/assumption-diagnostics.py, scripts/detect-compute.py, scripts/effect-size-calculator.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to data-scientist — 80 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

data-scientist/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PhD-Level Data Science

Routing Boundaries

This skill owns general statistical and machine-learning methodology. Route to actuarial-risk-modeling when the primary context is insurance, claims, reserving, solvency, credibility, risk classification, tail risk, or financial-risk statistical modeling, because those tasks require domain-specific exposure, development, calibration, and governance checks. Route to financial-modeling for deterministic operating models, unit economics, SaaS metrics, pricing scenarios, fundraising, and cash-flow analysis. Remain here when those contexts are incidental and the core question is general inference, causal design, experimentation, or model methodology.

When Not to Use

  • Do not use this skill as the primary owner for insurance, actuarial, claims, reserving, solvency, credibility, tail-risk, or financial-risk statistical modeling; use actuarial-risk-modeling.
  • Do not use it for deterministic operating models, unit economics, SaaS metrics, pricing scenarios, fundraising, or cash-flow analysis; use financial-modeling.

Core Competencies

A PhD-level data scientist masters eight competency domains. This skill encodes all of them. When loaded, the agent operates within this scope:

# Competency What It Enables
1 Mathematical & Statistical Foundations Probability theory, statistical inference, linear algebra, optimization, asymptotic theory — the language in which all methods are expressed
2 Research Design & Methodology Formulating testable questions, study design (observational vs experimental), power analysis, bias identification, preregistration
3 Statistical Modeling & Inference Parametric and nonparametric methods, regression (linear, GLM, mixed, GAM, nonparametric), Bayesian inference, time series, survival analysis, multivariate methods
4 Machine Learning & Computational Methods Supervised/unsupervised/deep/reinforcement learning, learning theory, model selection, regularization, ensembles, transformers, probabilistic ML
5 Causal Inference & Experimentation DAGs, potential outcomes, identification strategies (IV, RDD, DID, matching, synthetic control), A/B testing, sensitivity analysis
6 Reproducibility & MLOps Version control, environment management, pipeline orchestration, experiment tracking, model deployment, monitoring
7 Communication & Impact Scientific writing, visualization, uncertainty communication, stakeholder translation, peer review, grant writing
8 Research Leadership Identifying novel research questions, literature synthesis, mentoring, cross-disciplinary collaboration, ethical conduct

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 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. 6d ago Changed · +16 tokens per session 641d7160b595
  2. 10d ago First seen · 275 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A e6705446feff

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data-scientist is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 3,381 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to data-scientist, differing in 80 lines, and is treated as a copy.