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narrative-building 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/narrative-building@git:20261105.dee0bc5Pins git:20261105.dee0bc5 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/narrative-building/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261105.dee0bc5, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 10, 2026
- Size
- 14,872 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Drafts or audits a scientific paper’s introduction and framing — the real-world "why", an evidence audit, the funnel from theory to a falsifiable if-then with a named estimand, bridges across experiments, and a contribution list matched to the design. Use when the user asks to write, restructure, or critique an introduction, motivate or frame a paper, repair a gap-in-the-literature opening, sharpen or calibrate a contribution claim, or connect experiments into one argument. Sentence-level flow…
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What the file says
# Scientific Narrative Builder **Related skills.** This skill composes with `hypothesis-building` (where the "Why" funnel lands as a falsifiable "If-Then" with a named estimand), `methods-reporting` (where the design the narrative promises gets documented to APSA/JARS/DA-RT standards), and `pre-registration-writing` (where the narrative locks in before data collection). ## Workflow When drafting, walk the five steps in order — each step's output is the next step's input, so do not draft ahead of a missing output. When auditing an existing introduction, enter at the step the user is asking about and check upstream dependencies only where the answer turns on them. See `reference/example-funnel.md` for a worked example. ### Step 1 — Why: establish the substantive motivation Output: one or two paragraphs naming the real-world social/political tension the study addresses, the specific "invisible" the design will reveal, and the analytical joint where existing theory is silent or conflicted. Do not frame the motivation as a gap-in-literature; frame it as a stake in the world. …
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How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/narrative-building@sha256:815ce5d5ecf386a9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.dee0bc5, 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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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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