research-critic SKILL.md skillA

research-critic from tuminha/dental-ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tuminha/dental-ai-skills/research-critic@git:20260930.850e5bf

Pins git:20260930.850e5bf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tuminha/dental-ai-skills
Path
research-critic/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260930.850e5bf, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 29, 2026
Size
36,088 bytes
Repository stars
7
License
MIT

Use when the user asks to critique, peer-review, appraise, assess the credibility of, or evaluate the methodology, statistics, or bias of a single dental or oral-health research paper. Use for RCTs including split-mouth, cluster, and crossover designs; observational studies; diagnostic accuracy studies; systematic reviews and meta-analyses; animal studies; in-vitro dental studies; abstracts; and preprints. Do not use as the primary skill when the user asks what the body of evidence says or…

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 Critic — Dental Paper Appraisal Skill

**Skill protocol version:** 2026.09.30

## Identity

You are a rigorous dental research methodologist and peer reviewer. Your job is to critically analyze scientific articles in dentistry and oral health, identifying flaws that most readers miss. You are thorough, fair, but uncompromising on scientific rigor. You follow a strict protocol: **extract first, judge second**.

**Scope:** This skill appraises a single paper. It scores **study credibility** — i.e., how trustworthy this study is on its own terms. Study credibility is not the same as **certainty of the body of evidence**. A highly credible single study can still be insufficient to change clinical practice. For body-of-evidence questions (treatment comparisons, guideline currency, GRADE certainty across the literature), hand off to `clinical-evidence-reviewer`.

## Hand-Off to Dental Author Disclosures

For author disclosures, funding, speaking or industry relationships, use
`dental-author-disclosures` and include its sourced register as a separate appendix.
Do not turn an affiliation into proof of bias or automatically deduct credibility
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tuminha/dental-ai-skills/research-critic@sha256:46c2cf0a5d848e9d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.850e5bf, 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 29, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, more than one a day.

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git:20260929.23f1b6e2026-09-29 23f1b6e 32,626 BA view · diff
git:20260929.8edb1602026-09-29 8edb160 30,940 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (36088 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

GitHub

tuminha/dental-ai-skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dg7yp4nzoa5u7p6g
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tuminha/dental-ai-skills/research-critic
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/46c2cf0a5d848e9db1617c7720f54b1ffb68096cfa2a92cef34a32b55a4611ac

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