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analytical-method-validation 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.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills
Path
skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
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Latest version
v2.0, committed Oct 1, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 27, 2026
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Repository stars
53,159
License
MIT

Plans, executes, and documents validation, verification, and transfer of analytical procedures under the governing framework - ICH Q2(R2) and Q14, USP <1220>/<1225>/<1226>, ICH M10 bioanalytical, CLSI EP, or ISO/IEC 17025. Use for HPLC, LC-MS/MS, GC, CE, ICP-MS, dissolution, qNMR, qPCR, NIR, and ligand binding or cell-based assays whenever the question is whether a procedure is fit for its intended purpose. Triggers include "method validation", "analytical method validation", "AMV…

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# Analytical Method Validation

## When to use

Any time the question is whether an analytical procedure is fit for its intended purpose:
designing a validation study, evaluating validation data, verifying a compendial procedure,
transferring a procedure to another laboratory or instrument, or defending any of these in a
report.

## The two rules

**1. Establish which framework governs before designing anything.** The same assay validates
differently under ICH Q2(R2), USP <1225>, ICH M10, CLSI EP, and ISO/IEC 17025. They differ in
which characteristics are required, how the studies are laid out, and whether numeric acceptance
criteria are supplied at all. Blending them produces a protocol that satisfies none of them.

**2. State acceptance criteria before collecting data.** Criteria chosen after seeing results are
not acceptance criteria, and deciding them post hoc is a standing audit finding. ICH Q2(R2)
deliberately supplies almost no numeric criteria — they have to come from the specification, the
analytical target profile (ICH Q14 section 3), or development data. ICH M10 is the exception: it
…

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Source

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k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills · 53,159 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/analytical-method-validation
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