experiment-design

experiment-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,086 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method for controlled product experiments, such as comparing two versions of a feature or webpage. It defines the expected result, measurements, sample size, stopping rules, and analysis plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan A/B tests and other experiments involving conversion, revenue, retention, engagement, pricing, or product changes.
Why use it?
It reduces misleading conclusions caused by too little data, unclear success measures, or stopping a test at the wrong time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to plan A/B tests and other experiments involving conversion, revenue, retention, engagement, pricing, or product changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-ai-directory-company/agents-and-skills/experiment-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 The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills --skill experiment-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,086 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 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 $0.00036 $0.02086
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01043
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00209

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3a299848f1ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

experiment-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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/sample-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.

skills/experiment-design/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Experiment Design

Before you start

Gather the following from the user. If anything is missing, ask before proceeding:

  1. What change are you testing? (UI change, algorithm tweak, pricing model, new feature rollout)
  2. What outcome do you expect? (Increase conversion, reduce churn, improve engagement — be specific)
  3. Who is the target population? (All users, a segment, new users only, specific market)
  4. What is the current baseline? (Current conversion rate, average revenue, retention rate — with approximate numbers)
  5. What is the minimum detectable effect (MDE)? (Smallest improvement worth detecting — e.g., +2pp conversion, +5% revenue)
  6. What is the timeline? (How long can the experiment run before a decision is needed?)
  7. Are there any constraints? (Traffic volume, seasonality, regulatory requirements, shared infrastructure)

Experiment design template

1. Hypothesis

State a falsifiable hypothesis in this format:

If we [change], then [metric] will [direction] by at least [MDE],
because [reasoning based on user behavior or data].

A hypothesis without a mechanism ("because") is a guess. The mechanism forces you to articulate why the change should work, which informs metric selection and interpretation.

2. Primary Metric + Guardrail Metrics

Primary metric: One metric that decides the experiment. Exactly one — not two, not "primary and secondary." If you cannot pick one, you do not understand the goal yet.

Guardrail metrics: 2-4 metrics that must not degrade. These protect against winning on the primary metric at the cost of something else.

Role Metric Current Baseline MDE Direction
Primary Checkout conversion rate 3.2% +0.5pp Increase
Guardrail Revenue per user $12.40 -$0.50 Must not decrease
Guardrail Page load time (p95) 1.8s +200ms Must not increase
Guardrail Support ticket rate 0.4% +0.1pp Must not increase

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 161 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 3a299848f1ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

experiment-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,086 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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