what-if-oracle SKILL.md skillA
what-if-oracle 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/what-if-oracle@v1.3Pins v1.3 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/what-if-oracle/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.3, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 27, 2026
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- 11,817 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56,497
- License
- MIT
Supports structured what-if scenario analysis for research planning, experimental contingencies, and scientific project decisions. Explores favorable, reference, adverse, wild-card, contrarian, and second-order scenarios with explicit assumptions, evidence, and decision triggers. Use to stress-test a research plan under uncertainty; scenario narratives do not estimate causal effects or calibrated forecast probabilities.
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
# What-If Oracle — Research Scenario Planning Explore a bounded set of possible futures before committing research resources. The output is a scenario comparison, an evidence ledger, and a contingency plan. It does not cover the full possibility space or establish that a narrated mechanism will occur. The six branch prompts and **0·IF·1** mnemonic come from the upstream What-If framework. Treat the mnemonic as a framing aid: a potential change (**0**), a stated condition (**IF**), and a resulting scenario (**1**). It is not a scientific law or a computational model. The author's [What-If Paradigm](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18736841) and [Unified Theory of Digital Consciousness](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18807387) are catalogued by Zenodo as preprints. Their deposit and DOI establish provenance, not forecasting accuracy or empirical validation of this workflow. ## When to use Use for questions such as: - What if sample attrition is higher than planned? - What if a method fails to transfer to a new instrument, cohort, or site? - What if a key reagent, dataset, or measurement becomes unavailable? …
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How to install
mdr add k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/what-if-oracle@sha256:509af149c8cfc8f1The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.3, 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 May 27, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 32 days.
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| v1.3 latest | 2026-10-01 | a92663a | 11,817 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.2 | 2026-09-30 | ce9e6e9 | 10,649 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-07-26 | b085e11 | 10,017 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260611.1b8fae3 | 2026-06-11 | 1b8fae3 | 10,028 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-05-27 | 0936740 | 10,019 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 56,497 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_itjpctyr46d7ucaa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/what-if-oracle GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/509af149c8cfc8f17dd15608d6337eb8a7ff3f4056fcadeda573c5e527c68a97
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