# Stata Log

> Stata Log is an Agent Skill for documents published in the brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Tail, read, or search a Stata log file from a previous command or background task.

- Skill name: `stata-log`
- Category: [Documents](https://www.openparable.com/skill/documents/1)
- Source: https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/blob/HEAD/skills/64-tmonk-mcp-stata/skills/stata-log/SKILL.md
- Repository: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills (2,866 GitHub stars when collected)

## SKILL.md

Parse the argument:
- First token: log file path or background task_id
- Second token (optional): search term

**If a search term is provided**, call:
```
stata_read_log(path=<first_token>, query=<second_token>, before=2, after=2, regex=False)
```
Display matching lines with context.

**If no search term**, call:
```
stata_read_log(path=<first_token>, tail_lines=50)
```
Display the last 50 lines of the log.

**If the argument looks like a task_id** (not a file path), call:
```
stata_read_log(task_id=<argument>, tail_lines=50)
```

If no argument is provided, tell the user to supply a log file path or task_id. These are returned by `stata_run` in the `log_path` field of the JSON response.

If the log is large and truncated, note the `offset` for reading more (the response includes the current byte offset).

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