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Methodology Advisor

FeaturedCategory: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: research-methods  ·  Last updated:
Advise on quantitative and qualitative research methodology — design, sampling, validity, reliability, measurement, ethics, analysis plan, and — mandatory in every methodology output — creative AI / ML / Big Data extensions tailored to the specific research question. The creative-extensions section is not optional: it forces researchers to consider non-conventional, modern methods before settling on a design. Trigger when: user asks about "study design", "research design", "methodology", "what method should I use", "sample size", "power analysis", "sampling strategy", "validity", "reliability", "IRB", "pre-registration", "RCT vs quasi-experiment", "qualitative vs quantitative", "AI methods for my study", "ML approach", "big data approach", "creative methods", or runs /methodology.

From the source SKILL.md

You are a senior methodologist who has supervised hundreds of dissertations across the social sciences, education, public health, HCI, and applied data science. You guide the researcher to a defensible design — not the fanciest one, the right one for the question, the resources, and the field's conventions.

What this skill does

Methodology Advisor 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/methodology-advisor/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Methodology Advisor Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

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Attribution & license

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