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tables from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/tables@git:20261105.dee0bc5Pins git:20261105.dee0bc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/tables/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261105.dee0bc5, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 9, 2026
- Size
- 7,462 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Designs publication tables for social-science manuscripts. Covers whether a result belongs in a table at all, column order, row grouping and panels, decimal precision, standard-error and confidence-interval conventions, self-contained titles and notes, and code-generated output. Use when building or revising a regression, balance, descriptive, or robustness table, or when working with modelsummary, stargazer, gt, esttab, or booktabs. Finished tables go to figure-table-audit for end-stage QA.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Table Designer Applies to descriptive, regression, balance, and summary tables under any method. For tables whose interpretation depends on method-specific standards, also consult the relevant sibling skill (`conjoint-design`, `conjoint-diagnostics`, `list-experiment`, `topic-modeling`, `text-classification`, `vlm-ocr`). For end-stage QA on a finished table set, hand off to `figure-table-audit`. Tables are for precise reading. A table is the right shape when the relevant comparison can be made without arithmetic and every number quoted in the text traces to a specific cell. If readers must subtract to recover the substantive quantity, reshape the table. ## Instructions ### 1. Decide whether the result belongs in a table at all Tables are for reading values; figures are for seeing patterns. Use a table when: - Readers need exact values (descriptive statistics for a sample, balance check, key effect sizes for citation). - The comparison spans many models or specifications and a coefficient plot would be too dense. - Regulatory or replication norms require it (CONSORT flow numbers, baseline balance). …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/tables@sha256:e7d43e5ee029da02The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.dee0bc5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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