plugins/research/skills/research-remote-code/SKILL.md
--- name: research-remote-code description: Techniques for retrieving and investigating remote codebases and their documentation. Use when user provides a GitHub/GitLab URL to look at, asks to follow conventions from a remote repo, asks "how does package/library X implement/handle Y", or references any external repository's code, structure, or patterns. Examples: "follow the conventions in https://github.com/...", "look at how repo X does Y", "check this GitHub link". --- ## Accessing code from
npx skillsauth add Economic/epi-skills plugins/research/skills/research-remote-codeInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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When you need to look at code in a remote repository (GitHub, GitLab, etc.):
git clone --depth 1 <url> /tmp/<repo-name>rm -rf /tmp/<repo-name>Do NOT use WebFetch or gh api to read files from remote repos; clone locally instead.
When asked to follow conventions or patterns from a remote repo, clone it, read the relevant files, then apply those patterns to the local project.
testing
Common ways to validate or benchmark data analysis estimates using external sources. Use to confirm or test the plausibility of results from an economic analysis.
development
Provides useful economic data sources and ways to retrieve the data. Use when user asks for "prices", "inflation", "employment", "unemployment", "inequality", "productivity", "poverty", "CPS", "Census", "BLS", "BEA", "FRED", "IPUMS", "SWADL", "State of Working America Data Library".
testing
Methods for calculating statistics and estimates using economic data. Use when user asks to calculate or estimate quantities like percentiles, means, medians, shares, counts, or regression coefficients or regression-adjusted statistics.
tools
Use when work should span one or more detached tasks but still behave like one job with a single owner context. TaskFlow is the durable flow substrate under authoring layers like Lobster, ACPX, plugins, or plain code. Keep conditional logic in the caller; use TaskFlow for flow identity, child-task linkage, waiting state, revision-checked mutations, and user-facing emergence.