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Claude Code Skills Get Stale. Audit Them Quarterly.

Skills, memory entries, and hooks decay as models improve. In research, the decay can reach published findings and policy. A quarterly audit protocol.

May 2026 · Methodology

What Agents Actually Do (And What They Don't)

An agent is a specification-bounded process. Its output quality depends on prompt precision and project context, not hidden model capabilities.

Mar 2026 · Methodology

What We Mistake for AI Capability

AI output quality tracks specification precision, not model capability. A task with wide tolerance makes the model look smart.

Mar 2026 · Methodology

The Data We Forgot We Had: A Tagging System

Tag datasets by the questions they can answer, not just what they contain. A question-first system makes dormant research data discoverable when new questions…

Jan 2026 · Methodology

Claude Charts Not Working? Fix AI Research Graphics

When Claude and ChatGPT get research figures wrong, structured Antigravity prompts produce the publication-quality graphics we need.

Dec 2025 · Methodology

47 Scripts to 15: Cleaning a Research Codebase

Research projects accumulate code debt. An AI agent can map dependencies, identify dead code, and reorganize months of accumulated scripts, with…

Nov 2025 · Methodology

Robust API Collection: Pagination, Limits, Retries

Collecting location data from Google Places API at scale requires handling rate limits, pagination, and failure recovery.

Nov 2025 · Methodology

400 Labels to 94% Accuracy: Validating Grocery Store Data

Google Places returned thousands of 'grocery stores.' Many weren't. Here's how a classifier separates real grocery stores from gas stations and liquor stores.

Oct 2025 · Methodology

From 7 Copy-Paste Cycles to 1 Command with AI Agents

The difference between chatbot-based coding and agent-based coding is categorical, not incremental. Here's what changes when AI can read your entire codebase.

Oct 2025 · Methodology

From Methods Paragraph to Working Pipeline with AI

A well-written methodology section is almost executable code, and AI assistants have narrowed the gap between describing a procedure and implementing it.

Oct 2025 · Methodology

One Context File: Teaching AI Your Research Project

Every new coding session with AI starts the same way: re-explaining the project. A single CLAUDE.md file loads automatically every session.

Sep 2025 · Methodology