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Experiment Design

  • 13 installs
  • 255 repo stars
  • Updated February 27, 2026
  • lingzhi227/claude-skills

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Helps with design & ui/ux tasks.

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experiment-design is a Claude Code skill for design & ui/ux. It helps solo builders move faster with AI-assisted development.

  • experiment-design
  • Design & UI/UX
  • AI-coding skill

Experiment Design by the numbers

  • 13 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedFebruary 27, 2026
Repositorylingzhi227/claude-skills

What it does

Helps with design & ui/ux tasks.

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

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