research-grill SKILL.md skillA
research-grill from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/research-grill@git:20261105.dee0bc5Pins git:20261105.dee0bc5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/research-grill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261105.dee0bc5, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 2, 2026
- Size
- 8,375 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Interviews a researcher in rounds until an idea, design, or draft has no unexamined decision — numbered questions, each with why it matters and a recommended answer, facts looked up rather than asked, and settled decisions written to a file. Stages are idea (topic or hunch to a falsifiable question and contribution claim), design (estimand, identification, sample and power, measurement, analysis plan, pre-registration, venue), and defend (reviewer objections to a finished design or draft). Use…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Research Grill An interview, not an evaluation. You ask; the researcher decides. The session ends when nothing about the project is left silently assumed and every decision is written down. **Related skills.** `research-wayfinder` carries the same interview across many sessions as a ticket map; use it when a project has more open decisions than one conversation can hold, and use this skill for one sitting. `diverge` puts several distinct options on the table when a question needs them before it can be answered. `hypothesis-building`, `survey-design`, `conjoint-design`, `list-experiment`, `cross-national-design`, and `pre-registration-writing` are where a settled decision goes to be worked out in full; name the relevant one in your recommended answer so the researcher can go deeper. ## Stage Infer the stage from what the researcher brings; an argument forces it. | Stage | Researcher brings | Done when | |---|---|---| | `idea` | a topic, a hunch, a puzzle, "I want to study X" | one falsifiable research question, the population it covers, the contribution claim in one sentence, and the reason an experiment or survey is the right instrument rather than existing data | …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/research-grill@sha256:2ed5aa224a8537d5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.dee0bc5, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 16 days.
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| git:20261105.dee0bc5 latest | 2026-11-05 | dee0bc5 | 8,375 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 8,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 8,491 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.c12f077 | 2026-09-05 | c12f077 | 8,826 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.8289c42 | 2026-09-02 | 8289c42 | 8,795 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8375 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3am5lzy72hhleaz2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/research-grill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2ed5aa224a8537d58260713e968f7fcb7b897edb20c02fce900a0004e0fc48ee
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