experiment-results-interpreter SKILL.md skillA

experiment-results-interpreter from testland/qa is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add testland/qa/experiment-results-interpreter@v1.1.18

Pins v1.1.18 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
testland/qa
Path
plugins/qa-feature-flags/skills/experiment-results-interpreter/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
v1.1.18, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 13, 2026
Size
14,557 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
MIT

Interprets the results of a valid online controlled experiment, one whose harness, SRM, and telemetry have already been confirmed. Covers the distinction between practical and statistical significance, reading confidence intervals instead of binary p-values, novelty and primacy week-over-week decay that causes post-ship reversion, interaction effects from concurrent experiments, Simpson's paradox in segmented results, and the ordered guardrail-check sequence required before a ship decision -…

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What the file says

# experiment-results-interpreter

## Overview

The `ab-test-validity-checklist` skill confirms that an experiment
was run correctly - clean SRM, honest peeking discipline, pre-declared
OEC. This skill covers the **next question**: given a valid experiment,
what does the result actually mean, and is it safe to ship?

The two most common failure modes at this stage, per Kohavi, Tang, Xu
*Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments* (Cambridge Univ. Press,
2020, ISBN 9781108724265), are:

1. Shipping a result that is statistically significant but not
   practically meaningful.
2. Shipping a result that will not persist because it reflects
   novelty, primacy, or interaction artefacts rather than genuine
   long-term user value.

This skill is a **pure reference** for data scientists and PMs reading
final experiment dashboards.

## When to use

- Reading the results of an experiment that has reached its pre-declared
  sample size or end date.
- Preparing the ship/no-ship decision document.
- Auditing a past ship decision that produced unexpected post-launch
  outcomes.
- Coaching a PM or analyst who is over-indexing on p-values or
  under-checking guardrails.

## How to use
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add testland/qa/experiment-results-interpreter@sha256:f5371c76bd5b8460

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.18, 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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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.
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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14557 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

testland/qa · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oq36lph4ccztpmsd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=testland/qa/experiment-results-interpreter
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f5371c76bd5b84603924a6b2acba00998f8fcc6b3ef5acdfde4c7f50b036c3b8

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