How do I install the crucible-investigation-methodology Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/b-investigation-methodology/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

ClaudSkills / Science & Research / research-methods

crucible-investigation-methodology

Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: research-methods · Last updated: 2026-05-08

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Use when actively investigating a hypothesis — running a sweep, dispatching multi-agent analysis, designing serial adversarial gates, enriching per-trade data for loss postmortem, encoding data as LLM-readable tokens, orchestrating long-running compute on BigBlack, or re-testing a positive with an orthogonal null. Covers the 6 execution patterns that took NGRAM3FU-STRADDLE from idea to validated finding. TRIGGERS - run a sweep, test a hypothesis, multi-lens agents, adversarial gates, per-trade enrichment, quintile tokens, llm-readable data, BigBlack pueue, shuffled null retest, orthogonal validation, loss postmortem, gate validation, sweep orchestration.

What this skill does

crucible-investigation-methodology is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/b-investigation-methodology/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when actively investigating a hypothesis — running a sweep, dispatching multi-agent analysis, designing serial adversarial gates, enriching per-trade data for loss postmortem, encoding data as LLM-readable tokens, orchestrating long-running compute on BigBlack, or re-testing a positive with an orthogonal null. Covers the 6 execution patterns that took NGRAM3FU-STRADDLE from idea to validated finding.

Who uses this skill

The crucible-investigation-methodology skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/b-investigation-methodology
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/b-investigation-methodology/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/b-investigation-methodology/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/b-investigation-methodology/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/b-investigation-methodology/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\b-investigation-methodology\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

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