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Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research interview-me

Interactive interview to formalize a research idea into a structured specification with hypotheses and empirical strategy.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/14-luischanci-claude-code-research-starter/dot-claude/skills/interview-me" ~/.claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-awesome-agent-skills-for-empirical-research-interview-me-2dbd2a && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: skills/14-luischanci-claude-code-research-starter/dot-claude/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md
source content

Research Interview

Conduct a structured interview through 6 phases to formalize a research idea.

Interview Phases

  1. The Big Picture -- What phenomenon or puzzle are you investigating? Why does it matter?
  2. Theoretical Motivation -- What's your intuition for the mechanism? What does theory predict?
  3. Data and Setting -- What data do you have? What specific context or time period?
  4. Identification -- Any natural experiments or policy changes? What are the threats to causality?
  5. Expected Results -- What do you predict? What are the implications for policy or theory?
  6. Contribution -- How does this differ from existing work? What's the value-added?

Protocol

  • Ask questions one at a time (no multi-question dumps)
  • Probe deeper based on answers -- follow up on weak spots
  • Be curious, not prescriptive
  • Know when to stop (after 5-8 meaningful exchanges)

Output

After the interview, produce a Research Specification Document:

# Research Specification: [Topic]

## Research Question
[Clear, specific, answerable]

## Motivation
[Why this matters -- policy relevance, theoretical gap, empirical puzzle]

## Hypothesis
[Testable prediction with expected sign/magnitude]

## Empirical Strategy
- **Method:** [DiD, IV, RDD, etc.]
- **Treatment/Variation:** [What provides identification]
- **Control group:** [Comparison group]
- **Identifying assumption:** [What must hold]
- **Robustness checks:** [Planned sensitivity analyses]

## Data
[Sources, sample, key variables, time period]

## Expected Results
[What you expect to find and why]

## Contribution
[How this advances the literature]

## Open Questions
[What remains uncertain]

Save to 

quality_reports/research_spec_[sanitized_topic].md
.