Claude-skill-registry experiment-scaffold

Create a new experiment workspace directory: initialize git, write an AGENTS.md goal doc, and create references/ with index.md + notes/links markdown plus GitHub repos cloned under references/repos (gitignored). Use when the user asks to spin up a scratch/research/experiment folder and provides repos, links, and/or notes to collect.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/data/experiment-scaffold" ~/.claude/skills/majiayu000-claude-skill-registry-experiment-scaffold && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/data/experiment-scaffold/SKILL.md

source content

Experiment Scaffold

Gather inputs

Experiment directory name (a single path segment; no
```
/
```
)
Goal (1–3 sentences: what you’re trying to learn/build/test)
GitHub repos (repeatable;
```
owner/repo
```
or URL)
Reference URLs (repeatable; blogs/docs/API pages)
Notes (repeatable; bullets)
Optional root directory to create the experiment in (default: current directory)

Run the scaffold script

The helper script is

scripts/create_experiment.py

(next to this SKILL.md). Run it with the extracted inputs.

Example:

python3 scripts/create_experiment.py \
  --root ~/experiments \
  --name vector-search \
  --goal "Evaluate hybrid search with embeddings vs BM25." \
  --repo openai/openai-python \
  --repo facebookresearch/faiss \
  --url https://platform.openai.com/docs/ \
  --note "Measure latency/recall across configs"

What it creates

<root>/<name>/.gitignore

(ignores

references/repos/

)

<root>/<name>/AGENTS.md

(goal + pointer to

references/index.md

)

```
<root>/<name>/references/index.md
```
(inventory + clone status)
```
<root>/<name>/references/notes.md
```
```
<root>/<name>/references/links.md
```

<root>/<name>/references/repos/<owner>/<repo>

(cloned; gitignored)

Cloning notes (

gh

, multiple accounts, SSH)

The script tries
```
gh repo clone
```
first and prefers SSH; it falls back if SSH/auth fails.
If a repo fails to clone and you have multiple GitHub accounts, check
```
gh auth status
```
and switch with
```
gh auth switch -u <user>
```
.
To default
```
gh
```
to SSH cloning, set
```
gh config set git_protocol ssh
```
.

Useful flags

```
--depth 0
```
for a full clone (default is shallow)
```
--no-clone
```
to generate structure without cloning
```
--strict
```
to stop on the first clone failure (otherwise record failures in
```
references/index.md
```
)