freeze-check is a skill in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, last changed 2 Apr 2026. It can run shell commands and pre-approve tools — read the findings before installing.
Checks whether registered notebooks have current, stale, or missing outputs. Use before rendering or to verify freshness.
At a glance
What it can touch
How much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.
Pattern check
1 item to review
Broad tools pre-approved in allowed-tools
R34 · High · SKILL.md:4Commit bfa0a6e · 3 Nov 2026
How the check worksPattern check:1 item to reviewSee it
Install
Each tab says whether it installs commit bfa0a6e, the one we checked, or the latest version.
OpenCode also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
Goose also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
Windsurf (Devin Desktop) also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
Zed also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
Roo Code also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
Factory Droid also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
Junie also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
Amp also looks in .agents/skills/ and ~/.agents/skills/, so use the Any agent steps.
No install command here reaches Kiro. Copy the skill's folder into .kiro/skills/ in your project, or ~/.kiro/skills/ for all your projects. brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check (opens in a new tab)
Antigravity also looks in .agents/skills/, so the Any agent steps reach it with This project. For All projects, see where Antigravity looks.
Cline also looks in .claude/skills/, so the Claude Code steps reach it with This project. For All projects, see where Cline looks.
Read this before installing: Broad tools pre-approved in allowed-tools — SKILL.md:4
Claude Code
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From your project's root folder:
tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&mkdir -p .claude/skills &&mkdir .claude/skills/freeze-check &&cp -R "$tmp"/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check/. .claude/skills/freeze-check/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"If Claude Code was already running and this created the skills folder, run /reload-skills.
Claude apps
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Skills in the Claude apps belong to your account rather than to a project.
Make freeze-check.zip, with the skill folder at the top level:
tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&out="$(mktemp -d)" &&cp -R "$tmp"/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check "$out"/freeze-check &&(cd "$out" && zip -qr - freeze-check) > freeze-check.zip &&rm -rf "$tmp" "$out"In Claude, open Customize > Skills, select +, then + Create skill > Upload a skill, and choose freeze-check.zip.
On Free, Pro and Max plans, turn on Code execution and file creation (Create and edit files in newer settings) under Settings > Capabilities.
Codex
Pinned to commit bfa0a6e, the one we checked.
From your project's root folder:
tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&mkdir -p .agents/skills &&mkdir .agents/skills/freeze-check &&cp -R "$tmp"/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check/. .agents/skills/freeze-check/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"Codex picks up new skills on its own; restart it if this one does not appear.
Cursor
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From your project's root folder:
tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&mkdir -p .cursor/skills &&mkdir .cursor/skills/freeze-check &&cp -R "$tmp"/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check/. .cursor/skills/freeze-check/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"Copilot & VS Code
Pinned to commit bfa0a6e, the one we checked.
From your project's root folder:
tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&mkdir -p .github/skills &&mkdir .github/skills/freeze-check &&cp -R "$tmp"/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check/. .github/skills/freeze-check/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"In a running Copilot CLI session, run /skills reload.
Or install it with gh skill, which also installs the commit we checked. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later.
gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check/SKILL.md@bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba --agent github-copilot --scope projectGemini CLI
Pinned to commit bfa0a6e, the one we checked.
From your project's root folder:
tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&mkdir -p .gemini/skills &&mkdir .gemini/skills/freeze-check &&cp -R "$tmp"/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check/. .gemini/skills/freeze-check/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"In a running session, run /skills reload.
Or use Gemini CLI’s own installer. Installs the latest version, not the one we checked.
gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check --scope workspaceAny agent
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OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Zed, Roo Code, Factory Droid, Junie, Amp and Antigravity read .agents/skills in a project.
From your project's root folder:
tmp="$(mktemp -d)" &&git clone -q --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --no-checkout https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git "$tmp" &&git -C "$tmp" fetch -q --depth 1 origin bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&git -C "$tmp" sparse-checkout set -- skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check &&git -C "$tmp" checkout -q bfa0a6e5a843babbf45a1ef1663fd5dc4f07c0ba &&mkdir -p .agents/skills &&mkdir .agents/skills/freeze-check &&cp -R "$tmp"/skills/29-quarcs-lab-project20XXy/dot-claude/skills/freeze-check/. .agents/skills/freeze-check/ &&rm -rf "$tmp"Or use the skills CLI from skills.sh. Installs the latest version, not the one we checked. The skills CLI reports installs to skills.sh unless you set DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1.
npx skills@1.7.4 add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill freeze-checkWhat it can touch
From the files and frontmatter at commit bfa0a6e. This is how much a skill can do, not whether it is risky.
Pattern check
Pattern check: 1 item to review · commit bfa0a6e · 3 Nov 2026
We checked every text file in this skill, at commit bfa0a6e on 3 Nov 2026, against 45 published patterns such as download-and-run commands, hidden text and credential access. We don't run the skill, we don't read the web pages it points to, and we can't judge everything its instructions might lead an agent to do. In published tests, pattern checks like this one missed most malicious skills. Read the skill before you install it — especially anything it asks you to download or run.
Format check
Each agent reads SKILL.md a little differently. We check the file against each one's published rules; we don't run the skill in any agent.
Agent Skills specPasses
The open format from agentskills.io, held to the strictest version of each rule among the agents we check.
- Note
There is no license field, so readers can't tell whether they may reuse the skill. O2
Fix: Add license: with an SPDX name such as MIT or Apache-2.0, or the name of a bundled licence file.
- Note
- Claude CodePasses
- Claude apps & API uploadPasses
- OpenAI (Codex & API)Passes
- VS Code & CopilotPasses
SKILL.md
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