method-question SKILL.md skillA
method-question from sajor2000/methodsmith is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sajor2000/methodsmith
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- git:20261016.73e5a37, committed Oct 16, 2026
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- 3
- License
- MIT
Turns one chosen biomedical study idea into PICO, FINER, a hypothesis, and PubMed-query YAML. Use when the user wants PICO/FINER framing; open design exploration goes to method-brainstorm.
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 Question Hardening ## Skill Value - **Problem it solves:** Literature search, cohort building, and SAP writing drift when the research question is not structured. - **Use when:** The user has a clinical or biomedical study idea that needs PICO/FINER framing before evidence search. - **Output:** analysis/research-question.yaml plus __CE_RESEARCH_QUESTION__ handoff. - **Ask only if:** Only for missing PICO, hypothesis, feasibility, or outcome elements that cannot be inferred. - **Do not do:** Do not write the SAP or run literature extraction. - **Interaction:** Check repo/config/chat evidence first. Ask one decision-changing question at a time; use the current harness's blocking question UI when available, otherwise present numbered choices and wait. Turns a fuzzy clinical research question into a structured `analysis/research-question.yaml` that the rest of the biomedical lifecycle reads as input. The output is a small YAML file, not a long requirements doc — for the long requirements form use the `method-brainstorm` skill. The two skills are complementary: brainstorm produces narrative requirements; this skill produces structured biomedical data. …
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How to install
mdr add sajor2000/methodsmith/method-question@sha256:584958e1080b3f33The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.73e5a37, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 16, 2026.
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Source
sajor2000/methodsmith · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_anxwfhvykecjblex GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sajor2000/methodsmith/method-question GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/584958e1080b3f336305ad548dbe20e14ad2bb407c9ab2eac8d5c4e65668ecc6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.