A developmental design must support a claim about change, not just measure something at different ages. Developmental Psychology reviewers probe the four threats that are specific to this field: age vs. cohort confounds, attrition, measurement invariance across ages, and age-appropriate ethics and task validity. This skill hardens the design before data collection.
Devpsych Study Design is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/devpsych-study-design/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when designing studies for a Developmental Psychology (APA) manuscript so they can actually support a developmental-change claim. Covers age-appropriate experimental and longitudinal designs, age vs.
The Devpsych Study Design Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 174,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/devpsych-study-design curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/devpsych-study-design/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/devpsych-study-design/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/devpsych-study-design/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/devpsych-study-design/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\devpsych-study-design\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/devpsych-study-design/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Devpsych Study Design is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{devpsych-study-design-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Devpsych Study Design [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/devpsych-study-design/}
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