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Make the library multi-platform without duplicating content. Each skills/<name>/SKILL.md body remains the single source of truth; a new generator renders platform-ready exports from it. - scripts/build-exports.mjs — dependency-free Node generator with a PLATFORMS registry so new platforms (Gemini, Cursor, …) are a few lines. Ships ChatGPT exports at exports/chatgpt/<bundle>/<skill>/SYSTEM_PROMPT.md (172 skills), plus generated index READMEs. Supports --platform and --check. - exports/ — generated ChatGPT system prompts, ready to paste into a Custom GPT. - .github/workflows/check-generated.yml — fails a PR if exports or web/skills.json drift from the source skills. - README "Works With" now documents the ready-to-use exports and regen command. - CHANGELOG + SKILL-AUTHORING-STANDARD note the generated artifacts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016JWn5jRD5tcEFKrubjQ6Px
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# Experiment Designer Skill
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Produce rigorous experiment designs from product hypotheses, and interpret results with statistical and practical significance — so you can defend every decision to a sceptical engineering lead or data scientist.
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## Required Inputs
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Ask the user for these if not provided:
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**For experiment design:**
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- Hypothesis (what change, what metric, what expected movement)
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- Current baseline metric value
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- Minimum detectable effect (MDE) — the smallest lift worth caring about
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- Available daily sample size
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**For results interpretation:**
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- Control and variant results (raw numbers or percentages)
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- P-value or confidence interval
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- Run duration (days)
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- Any anomalies observed during the test
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## Two-Phase Process
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### Phase 1: Experiment Design
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1. Restate hypothesis as: "If we [change], we expect [metric] to [move by X%] because [reason]"
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2. Define control and variant clearly
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3. Select primary metric (one only) and secondary guardrail metrics (2-3 max)
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4. Calculate required sample size from MDE and baseline
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5. Estimate run time in days
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6. Set pre-defined success criteria before the test runs — no moving goalposts
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7. Flag design risks: novelty effects, seasonal confounds, multiple testing issues, network effects, sample ratio mismatch
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### Phase 2: Results Interpretation
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1. Assess statistical significance (p < 0.05 threshold)
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2. Assess practical significance: was the lift meaningful for the business, not just real?
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3. Interpret confidence intervals
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4. Investigate confounding factors
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5. Recommend: Ship / Iterate / Kill / Run follow-up test
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6. **Validate** — Confirm the test ran for the full planned duration. Flag if it was stopped early (peeking problem). Confirm sample ratio mismatch did not occur.
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## Output Structure
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**[Design or Results header based on phase]**
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*Hypothesis:* "If we [change], we expect [metric] to [move by X%] because [reason]"
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*Primary metric:* [One metric only]
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*Guardrail metrics:* [2-3 max]
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*Required sample size:* [n per variant]
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*Estimated run time:* [days]
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*Pre-defined success threshold:* [specific number]
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*Design risk flags:* [any concerns]
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**Results (Phase 2 only):**
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*Statistical significance:* [p-value and conclusion]
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*Practical significance:* [lift size vs. business threshold]
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*Recommendation:* Ship / Iterate / Kill / Follow-up — [rationale]
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## Quality Checks
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- [ ] Hypothesis specifies the change, the metric, the direction, and the reason
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- [ ] Primary metric is singular — guardrail metrics are secondary
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- [ ] Success criteria are defined before the test launches (not after seeing results)
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- [ ] Test was not stopped early (or flagged clearly if it was)
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- [ ] Practical significance assessed separately from statistical significance
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- [ ] Sample ratio mismatch is checked in results interpretation
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## Anti-Patterns
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- [ ] Do not define success criteria after seeing preliminary results — post-hoc success definitions are HARKing (Hypothesising After Results are Known) and invalidate the experiment
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- [ ] Do not stop a test early because the result looks significant — early stopping dramatically inflates false positive rates; the test must run to the planned sample size
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- [ ] Do not treat statistical significance as the same as practical significance — a p < 0.05 result with a 0.1% lift is real but may not be worth shipping
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- [ ] Do not run the same experiment on the same population multiple times without correction — multiple testing inflates the chance of a false positive proportionally
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- [ ] Do not use more than one primary metric — multiple primary metrics require multiple hypothesis corrections and make the ship/kill decision ambiguous
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