Skill rating

Run one consequential, contestable decision through a deliberative committee of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus, chaired by fable (default), astra, opus, or sol. Not for factual lookups, brainstorming, ro

Opens a deliverable, such as a talk, course module, paper, book chapter, or referee report, for AI-assisted work across sessions. Interviews the author until the manifest is written, then scaffolds de

Interviews a researcher in rounds until a research idea, design, or draft has no unexamined decision. Numbers every question, explains "why this matters", recommends an answer, fetches facts rather th

Reviews an existing conjoint study for inferential threats and returns prioritized findings across design integrity, estimation, measurement error, external validity and behavioral benchmarking, and i

Turns theory into falsifiable, pre-registerable hypotheses. Covers DAGs and backdoor closure, design resolution of the FPCI, SATE versus PATE, counterfactual and directional framing, named theoretical

Provides end-stage QA for a finished figure and table set. Checks inventory and in-text callouts, producing scripts, cross-references and numbering, text-to-evidence consistency, self-contained captio

Drafts or audits a scientific paper’s introduction and framing. Covers the motivating real-world "why", evidence audit, theory-to-falsifiable-if-then funnel with a named estimand, bridges across exper

Builds or audits a literature review. Produces an evidence map, closest prior work, source clusters, a gap verdict, and a synthesis plan for the introduction. Use when the user asks whether a contribu

Designs and diagnoses list experiments, or the item count technique. Covers whether indirect measurement is warranted, control-list construction against ceiling and floor effects, double-list and dire

Audits a manuscript’s citation layer, including in-text and reference-list parity, fabricated or nonexistent sources, DOIs resolving to another work, APA 7 or named-journal style, completeness, and wh

Reviews an existing conjoint study for threats to inference and returns prioritized findings across five areas — design integrity (attributes, profile restrictions, task count and satisficing, randomi

Turns a theory into falsifiable, pre-registerable hypotheses — DAGs and backdoor closure, how the design resolves the FPCI, SATE versus PATE, counterfactual and directional framing, a named theoretica

End-stage QA on a finished figure and table set — an inventory with in-text callouts and producing scripts, cross-reference and numbering checks, text-to-evidence consistency between claims and plotte

Draft or audit scientific introductions. Use for argument logic, framing, contribution structure, and coherence across multiple studies or experiments.

Build or audit a literature review. Use for evidence maps, gap analysis, contribution checks, source verification, and synthesis planning.

Designs and diagnoses list experiments (the item count technique) — whether indirect measurement is warranted at all, control-list construction against ceiling and floor effects, design variants such

Designs and formats publication-quality figures for social-science manuscripts. Covers chart type, scales, color, legend order, self-contained captions, and script-based reproducibility. Use when the

Audits the citation layer of a manuscript — in-text and reference-list parity, fabricated or nonexistent sources, DOIs that resolve to a different work, style and completeness against APA 7 or a named

Designs and formats publication-quality tables for social-science manuscripts. Covers column order, row grouping and panels, decimal precision, standard-error and confidence-interval conventions, self

Design and format publication-quality figures. Use for chart choice, color, scales, legends, captions, accessibility, and reproducible figure workflows.

Design and format publication-quality tables. Use for column order, row grouping, notes, statistical precision, accessibility, and reproducibility.

Designs multi-country survey experiments. Covers case selection with comparative logic, instrument localization and TRAPD translation, stimulus origin and composition, per-country power and error mana

Audits a methods section against a 45-item checklist synthesized from the APSA Experimental Section rubric, JARS-Quant, CONSORT, and DA-RT. Covers pre-registration and design documentation, subjects a

Audits fielded survey-response data for registered elements, data quality, bot and AI-automation screening, and sample integrity. Produces an appendix-ready quality report.

Organizes and formats an author’s response to peer review. Extracts every distinct point from referee reports and the editor’s letter, tags severity and type, maps dependencies to sequence revisions,

Specifies and diagnoses structural topic models for survey and experimental text. Covers STM, LDA, and BERTopic choice, preprocessing consequences, prevalence and content formulas with spectral initia

Designs multi-country survey experiments — case selection with a stated comparative logic, instrument localization and TRAPD translation, origin-country and composition choices for stimuli, per-countr

Turns raw captures, dictated braindumps in a deliverable’s inbox/, or recent macwhspr dictation-log entries into proposed planning-wiki changes, shown as a unified diff for author acceptance or reject

Audits a methods section against a 45-item checklist synthesized from the APSA Experimental Section rubric, JARS-Quant, CONSORT, and DA-RT — pre-registration and design documentation, subjects and rec

Audit fielded survey response data for registered elements, data quality, bot and AI-automation screening, and sample integrity. Emits an appendix-ready quality report.

Reviews a whole deliverable, such as a talk, course module, paper, chapter, or referee report, against its manifest without rewriting. Runs a deterministic gate for build, citations, numbers, facts, a

End-of-session closure for a research or code repository. Records what actually changed into the project's own handoff and log files, distinguishing verified work from work merely attempted, and repor

Specifies and diagnoses structural topic models for survey and experimental text — choosing among STM, LDA, and BERTopic, preprocessing decisions and their consequences, prevalence and content formula

House rules and craft for LaTeX Beamer slide decks (lectures, seminars, talks), built from the author's own Overleaf edits and published slide-design guidance. Covers storyboarding before LaTeX, frame

Start-of-session situational report for a research or code repository. Reads whatever handoff, log, or status artifacts the project actually keeps, checks live git state, and reports the current objec

Runs a deliberative two-model committee with GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus under a selectable chair. Fable is the default chair. `/model-committee-astra` selects Astra with a Sol member, `/model-committ

Organizes and formats an author's response to peer review — extracts every distinct point from the referee reports and the editor's letter, tags severity and type, maps the dependencies so the revisio

Reads model uncertainty from token log-probabilities. Covers collecting logprobs and aggregating multi-token labels, confidence tiers and margins for triage, calibration assessment with ECE, Brier sco

Writes a pre-analysis plan before data collection. Covers registry selection, OSF, AsPredicted, AEA, EGAP, PAP structure, an analytical strategy specified through model and decision rule, preregistere

Runs several language models as independent coders on one labeling or discovery task and treats disagreement as data. Covers diverse panel assembly, independent voting, consensus rules, Cohen’s and Fl

Reads a model's own uncertainty off its token log-probabilities — collecting logprobs and aggregating multi-token labels, confidence tiers and margins for triage, calibration assessment with ECE, Brie

Writes a pre-analysis plan before data collection — registry selection (OSF, AsPredicted, AEA, EGAP), PAP document structure, an analytical strategy specified down to the model and the decision rule,

Designs survey instruments. Covers item-specific wording that avoids acquiescence, double-barreling, and leading language, scale construction including points, labels, polarity, feeling thermometers,

Runs several language models as independent coders on the same labeling or discovery task and reads their disagreement as data — panel assembly for model diversity, keeping votes independent, consensu

Consult Fable as an independent reviewer at maximum reasoning effort. The calling session is the main model, Opus or Sonnet, and Fable is the advisor. Use before committing to an interpretation or sub

Consult an independent, read-only GPT-6 Astra advisor before committing to a substantive interpretation, approach, or final result. Not for routine work, implementation, or file edits. Defaults to gpt

OCR scanned or image-only corpora with vision-language models, in three phases. Use `evaluate` to compare candidate OCR systems against stratified human ground truth and pick one on measured CER/WER,

OCRs scanned or image-only corpora with vision-language models in three phases. Evaluate compares candidate systems against stratified human ground truth and selects one by measured CER or WER. Run bu

Designs survey instruments — item-specific question wording that avoids acquiescence, double-barreling, and leading language, scale construction (points, labeling, polarity, feeling thermometers, inde

Designs conjoint and factorial-vignette experiments end to end. Covers attribute architecture and randomization restrictions, effective-N power from closed-form AMCE standard errors, treatment realism