scientific-validation SKILL.md skillA
scientific-validation from akaszubski/autonomous-dev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add akaszubski/autonomous-dev/scientific-validation@git:20260317.e64d556Pins git:20260317.e64d556 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- akaszubski/autonomous-dev
- Path
plugins/autonomous-dev/skills/scientific-validation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260317.e64d556, committed Mar 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jan 25, 2026
- Size
- 7,345 bytes
- Repository stars
- 34
- License
- none declared
Scientific method for validating claims with pre-registration, power analysis, statistical rigor, and Bayesian methods. Use when testing hypotheses, running experiments, or validating claims from papers. TRIGGER when: validate, hypothesis, experiment, backtest, evidence, statistical test. DO NOT TRIGGER when: routine coding, config changes, documentation, non-experimental tasks.
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
# Scientific Validation Skill Rigorous methodology for validating claims from any source - books, papers, theories, or intuition. ## When This Skill Activates - Testing claims from books, papers, or expert sources - Validating rules, strategies, or hypotheses - Running experiments or backtests - Keywords: "validate", "test hypothesis", "experiment", "backtest", "prove", "evidence" --- ## Core Principle **Data is the arbiter. Sources can be wrong.** - Expert books can be wrong - Only empirical validation decides what works - Document negative results - they're valuable --- ## Phase Overview | Phase | Name | Key Requirement | |-------|------|-----------------| | 0 | Claim Verification | Understand what source ACTUALLY claims | | 1 | Claims Extraction | Document with source citations | | 1.5 | Publication Bias Prevention | Document ALL claims before selecting | | 2 | Pre-Registration | Hypothesis BEFORE seeing results | | 2.3 | **Power Analysis** | Calculate required n (MANDATORY) | | 3 | Bias Prevention | Look-ahead, survivorship, selection | | 3.5 | **Walk-Forward** | Required for time series (MANDATORY) | …
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How to install
mdr add akaszubski/autonomous-dev/scientific-validation@sha256:e7e31b8c99a67208The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260317.e64d556, 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 Jan 25, 2026 and Mar 17, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20260317.e64d556 latest | 2026-03-17 | e64d556 | 7,345 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-03-06 | 3a09c50 | 7,571 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-02-19 | 4f3e7c2 | 7,420 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-02-13 | c7ec021 | 6,865 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-01-25 | 30a9fa9 | 6,864 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7345 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
akaszubski/autonomous-dev · 34 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ooemaezxo3eiid2n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=akaszubski/autonomous-dev/scientific-validation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e7e31b8c99a67208388309adfef5da708bf2c41554466130b75f44a07fca2d16
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