vera-data-cfa-generating

Full CFA skill for measurement-model evaluation. Extends the initial CFA fit with reliability, convergent/discriminant validity, alternative-model comparison, modification-index review, subgroup invar

SKILL.md

GitHub

CFA Analyzing — Full Measurement Model & Manuscript

Open-source skill.

Read reference/specs/output-variation-protocol.md before every generation.

Workflow

Step Responsibility Executor Document Input Output
Additional tests Run Additional Tests Main Agent workflow/step04-run-additional-tests.md Prior step output Reliability + validity code/prose
Subgroup Analyze Subgroups Main Agent workflow/step05-analyze-subgroups.md Prior step output Measurement invariance code/prose
Modeling Fit Models Main Agent workflow/step06-fit-models.md Prior step output Alternative CFA models
Comparison Compare Models Main Agent workflow/step07-compare-models.md Prior step output Cross-model synthesis
Manuscript Generate Manuscript Main Agent workflow/step08-generate-manuscript.md Prior step output methods.md + results.md

Additional Inputs

Collect if missing:

  • target discipline / journal style
  • whether theory allows correlated residuals or cross-loadings
  • planned grouping variable for invariance
  • whether ordinal indicators should force a categorical estimator

Output Structure

output/
├── methods.md
├── results.md
├── tables/
├── figures/
├── references.bib
├── code.R
└── code.py

Key References

File Purpose
reference/specs/output-variation-protocol.md Output quality variation
reference/specs/code-style-variation.md Code style diversity
reference/patterns/sentence-bank.md SEM wording variants
reference/rules/reporting-standards.md CFA reporting rules