ClaudSkills / Science & Research / math-stats

Rigorous Experiments

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Rigorous Experiments skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a 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. Rigorous Experiments is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Science & Research · Sub-category: math-stats · Last updated: 2026-06-08

type:audit type:review

This skill should be used when designing, running, validating, or auditing statistical experiments on personal or observational time-series data (health metrics, speech/text corpora, behavioral logs, diaries, n-of-1 self-tracking). It enforces pre-registration, exact permutation tests, FDR discipline, data-validation gates, adversarial code review, and cross-validation with external models. Triggers on "design an experiment", "test this hypothesis on my data", "is this correlation real", "audit these findings", "pre-register", "validate this dataset", or any n-of-1 / quantified-self analysis request.

From the source SKILL.md

Run statistical experiments on observational/personal time-series data that survive scrutiny. Distilled from a 54-experiment n-of-1 program in which sampled permutation tests, missing-data artifacts, app-categorization bugs and collinear mechanisms repeatedly manufactured — and then destroyed — "findings". Every rule here exists because its absence once produced a wrong conclusion.

What this skill does

Rigorous Experiments is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the math-stats sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/rigorous-experiments/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Rigorous Experiments 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 94,000+ 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/rigorous-experiments
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/rigorous-experiments/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/rigorous-experiments/SKILL.md

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

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

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Rigorous Experiments Claude Code skill?

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

What does the Rigorous Experiments skill do?

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.

When should I use the Rigorous Experiments skill?

Use Rigorous Experiments when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the math stats area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Rigorous Experiments" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/science/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Rigorous Experiments skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a 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. Rigorous Experiments is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/glebis/claude-skills/blob/HEAD/rigorous-experiments/SKILL.md
Author: glebis

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

glebis. (2026). Rigorous Experiments [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/rigorous-experiments/

BibTeX

@misc{rigorous-experiments-2026,
  author    = {glebis},
  title     = {Rigorous Experiments [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/rigorous-experiments/}
}

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