Skill comparison

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Put high-signal skills side by side and inspect quality, adoption, freshness, install readiness, use-case fit, and warnings in one place.

Comparing 3 skills

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Decision summary

Strongest overall

Last30days Skill

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Fastest prototype

Last30days Skill

Best first install candidate based on install readiness and adoption.

Freshest repo

define-variables

Most recent maintenance signal among this shortlist.

Signal	define-variables Literature-grounded variable operationalization for observational research. Turns a data dictionary + research question into a citation-backed table of exposure/outcome/covariate definitions, cutoffs, and DB variable mappings. Prevents ad-hoc phenotype definitions that invite reviewer rejection. Bridges /search-lit output into /write-protocol Methods.	Last30days Skill Research the last 30 days across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web, then synthesize a grounded brief for an AI agent.	Academic Research Skills Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
Quality	71/100 Strong	100/100 Excellent	100/100 Excellent
Decision verdict	70/100 Prototype first Prototype with this skill first; keep a fallback candidate ready.	100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack.	100/100 Production-ready Use this as a leading candidate, then validate the README and install path in your own agent stack.
Adoption	288 stars Verified outcomes are shown on each skill page	61K stars Verified outcomes are shown on each skill page	38K stars Verified outcomes are shown on each skill page
Freshness	Sep 7, 2026	Sep 2, 2026	Jul 18, 2026
Use-case fit