informed-patient SKILL.md skillA
informed-patient from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/informed-patient@v0.1.1Pins v0.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
informed-patient/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.1, committed Sep 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 8, 2026
- Size
- 8,212 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Use when the user explicitly asks to use the informed-patient skill to prepare for a medical appointment, organize symptoms before seeing a doctor, or evaluate the evidence behind a diagnosis or treatment. Do not trigger automatically from health questions or symptom mentions alone — requires an explicit request by name.
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
# Informed Patient Turns a user's own health experience into a document they can hand to a clinician: a structured symptom picture, a mini literature review with quality-tagged sources, competing hypotheses, and questions they picked themselves. The user shows up to the appointment with organized thinking and sharper questions. Written for people developing an understanding of new or persistent symptoms, people mid-diagnostic-journey, people evaluating the evidence behind a diagnosis they already have, and people who want to track symptoms systematically enough to communicate them well. Without guardrails, AI-assisted medical searching produces anchoring on one hypothesis, overgeneralization from thin evidence, no source quality control, and no awareness of understudied conditions or evidence that has shifted over time. The structure below exists to counter those four failure modes. ## Attribution Written by Cat Hicks (github.com/DrCatHicks/informed-patient), CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changed from upstream: the single 34KB SKILL.md was split into a resident core and per-phase references …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/informed-patient@sha256:4180e3b067cb9410The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.1, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rf7b56galaibxj63)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 8, 2026 and Sep 9, 2026, about one every day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.1 latest | 2026-09-09 | b3b3554 | 8,212 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-09-08 | 6950d05 | 8,092 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 (8212 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rf7b56galaibxj63 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/informed-patient GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4180e3b067cb94106fe8efe75084d3a318f53cca6b3fbfeb72acffb15771f8e6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.