tables SKILL.md skillA
tables 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/tables@git:20261008.697c89fPins git:20261008.697c89f 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
codex/tables/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 2, 2026
- Size
- 6,996 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Design and format publication-quality tables. Use for column order, row grouping, notes, statistical precision, accessibility, and reproducibility.
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
# Table Designer Applies to descriptive, regression, balance, and summary tables under any method. For tables whose interpretation depends on method-specific standards, also consult the relevant sibling skill (`conjoint-design`, `conjoint-diagnostics`, `list-experiment`, `topic-modeling`, `text-classification`, `vlm-ocr`). For end-stage QA on a finished table set, hand off to `figure-table-audit`. Tables are for precise reading. A table is the right shape when the relevant comparison can be made without arithmetic and every number quoted in the text traces to a specific cell. If readers must subtract to recover the substantive quantity, reshape the table. ## Instructions ### 1. Decide whether the result belongs in a table at all Tables are for reading values; figures are for seeing patterns. Use a table when: - Readers need exact values (descriptive statistics for a sample, balance check, key effect sizes for citation). - The comparison spans many models or specifications and a coefficient plot would be too dense. - Regulatory or replication norms require it (CONSORT flow numbers, baseline balance). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/tables@sha256:c026ac94290db5abThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.697c89f, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 2, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 49 days.
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| git:20261008.697c89f latest | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 6,996 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 8,070 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260702.0d142fe | 2026-07-02 | 0d142fe | 8,079 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 (6996 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_7jt6yfy6zkicodxt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/tables GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c026ac94290db5aba536c246e56a0d0e3aae66ca73a0d59aa6b2e6c97cff137e
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