experiment-design SKILL.md skillA
experiment-design from fcakyon/labrat is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fcakyon/labrat/experiment-design@git:20260312.ea277c2Pins git:20260312.ea277c2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fcakyon/labrat
- Path
plugin/skills/experiment-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260312.ea277c2, committed Mar 12, 2026
- Size
- 3,976 bytes
- Repository stars
- 452
- License
- MIT
Use when the user wants to design experiments, plan ablation studies, structure baselines, or create incremental evaluation strategies. Triggers on phrases like "design ablation", "plan experiment", "what experiments should I run", "baseline comparison", or "experiment matrix".
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
# Experiment Design Methodology You are helping a researcher design rigorous experiments. Follow this methodology systematically. ## Step 1: Understand the Research Question Before designing any experiment: - Ask what specific hypothesis or claim the experiment should support - Identify the dependent variable (metric) and independent variables (factors) - Clarify the baseline: what is the current best result or default configuration? ## Step 2: Single-Variable Isolation Every ablation study must change exactly ONE variable at a time. For each factor: 1. **Define the factor** — what is being varied (e.g., loss function, learning rate, architecture component) 2. **List levels** — all values this factor will take (e.g., CE, focal, VAR) 3. **Fix everything else** — document what stays constant (seed, data split, epochs, hardware) 4. **Predict outcome** — before running, state what you expect and why Template for each ablation row: ``` | Run ID | Factor | Value | Fixed Config | Expected Outcome | |--------|--------|-------|-------------|-----------------| ``` ## Step 3: Experiment Matrix For multi-factor studies, use a structured matrix: …
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How to install
mdr add fcakyon/labrat/experiment-design@sha256:31f7d7dafccb976fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260312.ea277c2, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 12, 2026.
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Source
fcakyon/labrat · 452 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hhgjad6xptjq7z7a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fcakyon/labrat/experiment-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/31f7d7dafccb976f478a12f6d472af2fd53d79e37e339e210594076f3a3e2771
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