How to Use AI Skills in Social Science Research (Starter Guide)
This is the original Learn content, reorganized into blog format as the first in-house post.
1. What is an AI Coding Agent?
An AI Coding Agent (for example Claude Code or Cursor) can do more than chat: it can read project files, run commands, and edit outputs.
- Read your drafts, codebase, and data folders
- Run analysis scripts and produce outputs
- Iterate continuously under your method constraints
2. What is a Skill?
A Skill is a reusable task instruction set that helps AI standardize work in a specific research scenario.
/claude-writer Expand this proposal into Introduction, Methods, and Results structure.3. Fastest Way to Start
- Open any skill detail page and click Download SKILL.md
- Put it into your local skills directory
- Invoke the skill by name or natural language in your agent