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survey-design from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/survey-design@git:20261008.697c89fPins git:20261008.697c89f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
codex/survey-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 2, 2026
- Size
- 16,892 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Designs survey instruments: question wording, scales and index reliability, flow and treatment placement, pretesting, attention and speeding rules, and sensitive questions. Use when writing or revising survey questions, choosing scales, ordering blocks, or planning a pilot.
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
# Survey Instrument Designer ### 1. Question Construction - **Item-Specific Wording:** Frame questions with item-specific response options rather than agree/disagree, true/false, or yes/no formats. Instead of "Do you agree that immigration benefits the economy?" use "How much does immigration benefit or harm the economy?" with a substantive scale. This reduces acquiescence bias and forces respondents to process the item content (Stantcheva 2023). - **Open-Ended vs. Closed-Ended:** Use open-ended questions to discover respondent frames and vocabulary before designing closed-ended items. Deploy open-ended items in pilots to generate response categories, then convert to closed-ended for the main study. In the main survey, reserve open-ended items for exploratory or manipulation-check purposes. - **Behavioral vs. Attitudinal:** Prefer behavioral measures (what respondents would do) over attitudinal measures (what respondents feel) when the research question concerns real-world consequences. Attitudinal items are appropriate when the construct of interest is itself an attitude, but note that attitude-behavior gaps are well documented. …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/survey-design@sha256:469330d1eb3922b7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.697c89f, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 2, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 49 days.
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| git:20261008.697c89f latest | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 16,892 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 18,272 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260702.0d142fe | 2026-07-02 | 0d142fe | 17,561 B | A | view |
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Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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