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Experiment Design

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  • Updated February 27, 2026
  • lingzhi227/agent-research-skills

experiment-design provides documented workflows for Design experiment plans with progressive stages - initial implementation, baseline tuning, creative research, and ablation studies. Plan baselines, datasets, hy

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The experiment-design skill design experiment plans with progressive stages initial implementation baseline tuning creative research and ablation studies Plan baselines datasets hyperparameter sweeps and evaluation metrics Use when planning experiments for a research paper Experiment Design Design structured progressive experiment plans for research papers Input 0 Research idea plan or method description References 4-stage progressive experiment prompts claude skills experiment-design references stage-prompts md Scripts Generate experiment design bash python claude skills experiment-design scripts design_experiments py plan research_plan json output experiment_design json python claude skills experiment-design scripts design_experiments py method contrastive learning task classification format markdown Generates baselines ablation matrix hyperparameter grid metric selection 4-Stage Progressive Framework from AI-Scientist-v2 Stage 1 Initial Implementation Focus on getting a basic working implementation Use a simple dataset Aim for basic functional correctness Completion at least one working non-buggy implementation Stage 2 Baseline Tuning Tune hyperparameters learning rate epochs b.

  • `$0` - Research idea, plan, or method description
  • 4-stage progressive experiment prompts: `~/.claude/skills/experiment-design/references/stage-prompts.md`
  • Focus on getting a basic working implementation
  • Use a simple dataset
  • Aim for basic functional correctness

Experiment Design by the numbers

  • 1,358 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +39 installs in the week ending Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
  • Ranked #227 of 2,064 Data Science & ML skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Security screen: LOW risk (skills.sh audit)
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
At a glance

experiment-design capabilities & compatibility

Capabilities
`$0` research idea, plan, or method descriptio · 4 stage progressive experiment prompts: `~/.clau · focus on getting a basic working implementation · use a simple dataset · aim for basic functional correctness
Use cases
documentation · planning
From the docs

What experiment-design says it does

# Experiment Design Design structured, progressive experiment plans for research papers.
SKILL.md
npx skills add https://github.com/lingzhi227/agent-research-skills --skill experiment-design

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How do I use experiment-design for the task described in its SKILL.md triggers?

Design experiment plans with progressive stages - initial implementation, baseline tuning, creative research, and ablation studies. Plan baselines, datasets, hyperparameter sweeps, and evaluation m.

Who is it for?

Teams invoking experiment-design when the user request matches documented triggers and prerequisites.

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When should I use this skill?

Design experiment plans with progressive stages - initial implementation, baseline tuning, creative research, and ablation studies. Plan baselines, datasets, hyperparameter sweeps, and evaluation metrics. Use when plan

What you get

Step-by-step guidance grounded in experiment-design documentation and reference files.

  • staged experiment plan
  • baseline and tuned metrics
  • training-curve validation report

By the numbers

  • Defines a 4-stage progressive experiment framework
  • Extracted from AI-Scientist-v2 agent_manager.py and AI-Researcher exp_analyser.py

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Experiment Design

Design structured, progressive experiment plans for research papers.

Input

  • $0 — Research idea, plan, or method description

References

  • 4-stage progressive experiment prompts: ~/.claude/skills/experiment-design/references/stage-prompts.md

Scripts

Generate experiment design

python ~/.claude/skills/experiment-design/scripts/design_experiments.py --plan research_plan.json --output experiment_design.json
python ~/.claude/skills/experiment-design/scripts/design_experiments.py --method "contrastive learning" --task classification --format markdown

Generates baselines, ablation matrix, hyperparameter grid, metric selection. Stdlib-only.

4-Stage Progressive Framework (from AI-Scientist-v2)

Stage 1: Initial Implementation

  • Focus on getting a basic working implementation
  • Use a simple dataset
  • Aim for basic functional correctness
  • Completion: at least one working (non-buggy) implementation

Stage 2: Baseline Tuning

  • Tune hyperparameters (learning rate, epochs, batch size)
  • Do NOT change model architecture
  • Test on at least TWO datasets
  • Completion: stable training curves, improvement over Stage 1

Stage 3: Creative Research

  • Explore novel improvements and insights
  • Be creative and think outside the box
  • Test on at least THREE datasets
  • Completion: demonstrated novel improvement

Stage 4: Ablation Studies

  • Systematic component analysis
  • Each ablation tests a different aspect
  • Use same datasets as Stage 3
  • Completion: all planned ablations done

Output Format

{
  "stages": [
    {
      "name": "initial_implementation",
      "goals": ["Basic working baseline", "Simple dataset"],
      "max_iterations": 5,
      "completion_criteria": "Working implementation with non-zero accuracy"
    }
  ],
  "baselines": ["Method A", "Method B"],
  "datasets": ["Dataset1", "Dataset2", "Dataset3"],
  "metrics": ["accuracy", "F1", "inference_time"],
  "ablation_components": ["component_A", "component_B"],
  "hyperparameter_grid": {
    "lr": [1e-4, 1e-3, 1e-2],
    "batch_size": [32, 64, 128]
  },
  "num_seeds": 3
}

Rules

  • Always start simple (Stage 1) before complex experiments
  • Each stage builds on the best result from the previous stage
  • Multi-seed evaluation for statistical significance
  • Document every experiment run in notes.txt
  • Generate figures for training curves and comparisons

Related Skills

  • Upstream: research-planning, idea-generation
  • Downstream: experiment-code, data-analysis
  • See also: paper-assembly

Related skills

Forks & variants (2)

Experiment Design has 2 known copies in the catalog totaling 14 installs. They canonicalize to this original listing.

FAQ

What does experiment-design do?

Design experiment plans with progressive stages - initial implementation, baseline tuning, creative research, and ablation studies. Plan baselines, datasets, hyperparameter sweeps, and evaluation metrics. Use when planni

When should I use experiment-design?

Design experiment plans with progressive stages - initial implementation, baseline tuning, creative research, and ablation studies. Plan baselines, datasets, hyperparameter sweeps, and evaluation metrics. Use when planni

What are common prerequisites?

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