comparison-design

comparison-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 13 tokens per session (695 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plan for testing a new method against baseline and competing methods under fair, controlled conditions. It covers which baselines, datasets, measurements, and statistical tests to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design reproducible experiments, compare methods across datasets, estimate needed sample sizes, and assess whether observed differences are meaningful.
Why use it?
It reduces misleading results caused by unequal tuning, computing resources, datasets, or random settings.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to design reproducible experiments, compare methods across datasets, estimate needed sample sizes, and assess whether observed differences are meaningful.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/comparison-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 yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill comparison-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 695 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
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  • high Prompt Injection · line 59
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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 $0.00013 $0.00695
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00347
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00069

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5d42a1e1c594, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comparison-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 9d 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/comparison-design/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategy: Comparison Design

Question: How much better is our method than the baseline?

Methodology

  • Fair Comparison Protocol (Bouthillier 2021): Control all confounds, same compute budget, same tuning effort.
  • Multi-Baseline Comparison: Compare against multiple baselines (SOTA, simple, ablated).
  • Multi-Dataset Evaluation: Test across diverse datasets to avoid dataset-specific overfitting.
  • Bayesian Comparison (Benavoli 2017): Posterior probability of superiority, not just p-values.
  • Bootstrap/Permutation Tests: Non-parametric significance without distributional assumptions.

Execution Flow

  1. baseline-selection → Select appropriate baselines (SOTA, simple, oracle)
  2. metric-specification → Define primary metric and secondary metrics
  3. sample-size-estimation → Power analysis for detecting meaningful differences
  4. seed-protocol-design → Ensure fair random initialization across methods
  5. environment-specification → Lock environment to prevent confounds
  6. reproducibility-protocol (tactic) → Ensure all results are reproducible
  7. statistical-method-selection (tactic) → Choose Bayesian or frequentist comparison

Budget Gate

Comparison Scope Baselines Datasets Seeds Min Runs
Minimal 1 SOTA + 1 simple 1 3 6
Standard 2-3 baselines 2-3 5 30-45
Comprehensive 4+ baselines 3-5 5-10 100+
Publication-ready All relevant 5+ 10+ 200+

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic When to use
reproducibility-protocol Ensure experiment reproducibility through systematic environment and seed control
statistical-method-selection Select appropriate statistical methods for experiment analysis

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP When to use
baseline-selection Select appropriate baselines for experimental comparison
environment-specification SOP: define complete experiment environment specification
metric-specification Define experiment metrics and significance standards
sample-size-estimation SOP: power analysis and required experiment count estimation
seed-protocol-design SOP: design random seed strategy for reproducibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 83 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 5d42a1e1c594

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comparison-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (464 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 695 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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