referee2
Systematic audit and review by Referee 2. Two modes — "deck" reviews slide presentations for rhetoric, visual quality, and compile cleanliness; "code" performs cross-language replication and econometric audit of empirical pipelines
Install / Use
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill referee2Installs into whichever agent you are using.
SKILL.md
Installable skill definition
Quality Score
Category
AutomationSupported Platforms
Our assessment of referee2
referee2 scores 87/100 on our quality scale, 1020th of 1,753 Automation skills we index.
We have not analysed the SKILL.md file itself yet, so the content part of this score is an estimate until our crawler reaches it.
With 4,360 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so referee2 is actively maintained.
- No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
- Its trust signals score 88/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
referee2 compared with similar skills
All 4 of these similar skills score higher than referee2; compare them before choosing.
| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| referee2 (this skill)by brycewang-stanford | 87 | 4.4k | 4d ago | SKILL.md |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 85.7k | 12d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 73.9k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| rufloby ruvnet | 100 | 73.4k | today | CLAUDE.md |
| crawl4aiby unclecode | 100 | 84.4k | 2d ago | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install referee2?
- Run
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill referee2. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does referee2 work with?
- It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is referee2 safe to use?
- It declares no license and scores 88/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is referee2 still maintained?
- The repository was last updated 4 days ago, so referee2 is actively maintained.
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Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.