research-ethics SKILL.md skillA
research-ethics from vecnode/vncode is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vecnode/vncode/research-ethics@git:20261013.89ba5e2Pins git:20261013.89ba5e2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vecnode/vncode
- Path
packages/dsh-research/skills/research-ethics/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261013.89ba5e2, committed Oct 13, 2026
- Size
- 8,761 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Record the statements a journal requires and a reader checks — authors with their CRediT contributions, ethics approval that names the body and the reference number, how consent was taken, funding with grant numbers, conflicts of interest, data availability with an address or a reason, and the use of generative AI — as a validated record that the submission folder prints and the manuscript never carries. Use when a run is heading for submission, when an author asks who should be listed, when…
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
# The statements a reader checks
Five minutes before a submission, somebody writes "Ethics approval was obtained"
and "The authors declare no conflicts of interest". Neither sentence can be checked
by anyone, and both are the kind a reader is right to be suspicious of. So they are
a **record** here: `plan/disclosure.json`, validated when it is written and again
by `r0`, printed as `disclosure.md` inside the submission folder.
**The rule this skill exists for, in one line: this package can check that a
statement is COMPLETE and it cannot check that it is true — and it will never
decide whether a study needed approval.** That is an institution's determination.
An agent that answers it is answering for somebody else, and the person who pays
for it is the researcher.
## The record
```text
rs_plan slug=completion-trial part=disclosure disclosure={
"authors": [
{ "name": "A. Okonkwo", "credit": ["conceptualization", "methodology", "writing-original-draft"] },
{ "name": "R. Silva", "credit": ["formal-analysis", "visualization", "writing-review-editing"] }
],
"ethics": { "approval": "approved", "body": "the University Research Ethics Committee",
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vecnode/vncode/research-ethics@sha256:bb4300ad67e8437bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.89ba5e2, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 13, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
vecnode/vncode · 10 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uflt75zc2duoj56k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vecnode/vncode/research-ethics GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb4300ad67e8437b08d6e35d60ce2f4f9413f4ca1705f415d30448af8f92eb75
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