methods-reporting SKILL.md skillA
methods-reporting 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/methods-reporting@git:20261019.3e1eabePins git:20261019.3e1eabe 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
plugin/skills/methods-reporting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261019.3e1eabe, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 19,849 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Audits a methods section against a 45-item reporting checklist synthesized from the APSA Experimental Section rubric, JARS-Quant, CONSORT, and DA-RT, covering pre-registration, recruitment, randomization and treatments, sample flow and attrition, sample-size justification, three-tier results labeling, conjoint reporting, validity, and open-science infrastructure. Use when checking whether a methods section reports enough, preparing a submission or replication archive, asking what CONSORT…
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What the file says
# Transparent Methods Reporter Audit a methods section by marking each checklist item reported, partial, missing, or not applicable, citing where in the text each reported item appears and suggesting wording or a supplementary-material location for each gap. Items 1--19 (the APSA Experimental Section rubric) are the core; the full 45 are a recommended ceiling, not a mandatory floor (see "The 45-item checklist" below). The sections that follow explain what each part of the checklist requires and which standard it comes from. ## Instructions ### 1. Design Documentation and Pre-Registration This section covers upstream documentation that makes transparent reporting possible. A well-documented bad design is still a bad design; transparency tools are necessary but not sufficient (Druckman 2022). - **Design Document:** Before data collection, create a comprehensive document recording all decisions and their rationale -- motivation, stimuli, outcome measures, predictions, analysis plans, and logistics. This "design document" is the upstream practice that enables downstream transparent reporting (Druckman 2022, Ch. 5). …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/methods-reporting@sha256:c640f3c95465bc83The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.3e1eabe, 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 9 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 23 days.
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| git:20261019.3e1eabe latest | 2026-10-19 | 3e1eabe | 19,849 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.cd70e9b | 2026-10-08 | cd70e9b | 19,880 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 19,899 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 19,539 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.c12f077 | 2026-09-05 | c12f077 | 19,589 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 19,558 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260509.985a114 | 2026-05-09 | 985a114 | 18,871 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.3825290 | 2026-04-19 | 3825290 | 19,403 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.1246dd3 | 2026-04-19 | 1246dd3 | 19,408 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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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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