hypothesis-generation SKILL.md skillA
hypothesis-generation from k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/hypothesis-generation@v2.4Pins v2.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
- Path
skills/hypothesis-generation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v2.4, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 16,622 bytes
- Repository stars
- 53,159
- License
- MIT
Formulates evidence-bounded scientific questions, candidate hypotheses, rival explanations, causal or associational claims, discriminating predictions, measurements, and preregistration-ready analysis plans. Used when turning observations or preliminary findings into transparent, testable research plans without treating hypotheses as facts.
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
# Scientific Hypothesis Generation Turn an observation into a transparent set of candidate explanations and tests. A hypothesis is a proposal to be challenged, not a finding, fact, diagnosis, or recommendation. ## Non-negotiable boundaries Before using unpublished, sensitive, controlled, personal, proprietary, export-controlled, or security-relevant material: 1. Confirm authorization and the applicable institutional, funder, publisher, data-use, privacy, and AI policies. 2. Keep the material local unless an authorized human explicitly approves a named external destination and data scope. 3. Minimize inputs. Do not place sensitive or unpublished data in web searches or external AI systems without authorization. 4. Stop at the appropriate human, animal, biosafety, dual-use, data-governance, or regulatory gate. Never: - present a hypothesis, mechanism, causal effect, citation, or apparent pattern as established evidence; - claim novelty because a quick search found nothing; - infer causation from association, temporal order alone, predictive accuracy, or model output; - supply patient-specific diagnosis, treatment, dose, prognosis, or other clinical advice; …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/hypothesis-generation@sha256:5bccec0437d96d61The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.4, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_42a3k23vhjhtt3y6)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 11, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 19 days.
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| v2.4 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 16,622 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.3 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 16,120 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.2 | 2026-09-02 | 1e5eeff | 15,725 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1 | 2026-07-26 | 2f2022d | 14,767 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-07-24 | f375cf7 | 14,767 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.831d49e | 2026-07-21 | 831d49e | 14,222 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.c1150bd | 2026-06-11 | c1150bd | 14,222 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 (16622 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
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 53,159 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_42a3k23vhjhtt3y6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/hypothesis-generation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5bccec0437d96d61821ec2095e7e32b61e8634cd8c02f11f42da953121e92719
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