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decision-gates from uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills
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- MIT
Separate a scientific gate that decides promotion, continuation, stopping, or retirement from a mechanical check you can set yourself, get explicit approval for the former, and report it exactly as frozen. Use when proposing a threshold, interpreting a gate result, or scoping a negative result.
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
# Decision Gates ## Get Explicit Approval For A Scientific Gate Before adopting any scientific promotion, continuation, stopping, or retirement gate, present the exact: - metric definitions and thresholds; - comparison reference; - independent denominator; - aggregation; - evaluation timing; - the action triggered by pass and by fail; and obtain explicit approval. Do not infer approval from a general experiment request, from prior autonomy, from a pilot, or from a similar gate used elsewhere. Once approved and frozen for a run, preserve that gate and report it exactly. Any later interpretation or replacement is a separately versioned decision layer, not a retroactive edit. ## A Mechanical Check Is Not A Gate The acceptance criteria of a mechanical or developer check need no approval: a smoke that must reach a real kernel, a schema that must validate, a guardrail that must reject a known-bad input, a threshold below which a run is obviously not learning. Set those yourself and report the number. If a criterion starts deciding whether something is promoted, retired, or continued, it has become a scientific gate and the approval rule applies again. …
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How to install
mdr add uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills/decision-gates@sha256:2ef3aae2b2b86d26The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.9b3de7c, 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 Sep 21, 2026.
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Source
uchicago-dsi/ai-sci-skills · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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