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03_methodology_architect from adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence/03_methodology_architect@git:20261030.12cf05f

Pins git:20261030.12cf05f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: C, 14 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence
Path: skills/03_methodology_architect/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261030.12cf05f, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 9, 2026
Size: 23,102 bytes
Repository stars: 9
License: none declared

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

# Methodology Architect

## Skill Metadata
- **Skill Name:** Methodology Architect
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Purpose:** Design rigorous, appropriate, and defensible research methodology that aligns research questions with optimal designs, measures, and analytical plans
- **Trigger:** User needs to design a study, write a methods section, pre-register a study, or evaluate methodological rigor
- **Integration:** Receives research questions and contribution maps from Ideation Engine (01), theoretical frameworks from Literature Command (02), and feeds structured methodology to Writing Excellence (05) and Quality Fortress (06)

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## ACTIVATE: METHODOLOGY

When the user invokes the Methodology Architect, execute the following four-phase protocol. Do not skip phases. Each phase must produce documented output before proceeding.

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### PHASE 1: DESIGN SELECTION MATRIX

**Objective:** Select the research design that best matches the research question, the desired causal claim level, and the practical constraints.

#### 1.1 Causal Claim Levels

| Claim Level | What You Can Claim | Required Design | Example |
|-------------|-------------------|-----------------|---------|
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence/03_methodology_architect@sha256:ca677468a047d377

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.12cf05f, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_wwabv4eixzxbenj3.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wwabv4eixzxbenj3)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 9, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 143 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261030.12cf05f latest	2026-10-30	12cf05f	23,102 B	C	view · diff
git:20260609.deb30f6	2026-06-09	deb30f6	23,090 B	C	view

Audit of the latest version

C 14 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

fail: Frontmatter block present
fail: Frontmatter declares a name
fail: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (23102 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence · 9 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wwabv4eixzxbenj3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence/03_methodology_architect
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ca677468a047d377ffb2f7a32a6bc5155a85faa993a7279646ae55a2fdb96080

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