What problem does it solve? Turning an empirical research design into a concrete Stata workflow is error-prone: merge keys, variable construction, robustness checks, and table exports are easy to miss or inconsistent. This Skill reads your design and wiki documentation and produces a structured, verifiable Stata execution plan. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Execution Plan: Generates a 13-section plan covering input data, merge order, sample filters, variable construction, winsorization, descriptive statistics, correlations, baseline regressions, mechanism and heterogeneity tests, robustness checks, table exports, and a verification checklist. - Optional Do-File Skeleton: With the --write-do flag, also writes a Stata do-file skeleton without ever overwriting existing user do-files. - Conservative Variable Handling: Uses placeholders and marks uncertain variable names as needs confirmation instead of inventing names. - Use Case: A researcher with a wiki-documented empirical design on firm performance runs the Skill to get a dated plan file in wiki/outputs/ detailing every merge, regression, and robustness check before writing any Stata code. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to run the stata-plan skill on your empirical design document to generate a Stata execution plan in wiki/outputs.
