replicate-study SKILL.md skillA
replicate-study from aperivue/medsci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/replicate-study@git:20260930.c8ed96cPins git:20260930.c8ed96c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aperivue/medsci-skills
- Path
skills/replicate-study/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260930.c8ed96c, committed Sep 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 17, 2026
- Size
- 6,839 bytes
- Repository stars
- 366
- License
- MIT
Use when applying a published cohort study's methodology to a different database. Extracts the design from the source paper, maps variables to the target database with a harmonization table, generates the analysis code and reports every forced deviation.
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
# Replicate Study Skill
Apply a published study's methodology to a different database and report every place the target
database forced a deviation.
## Inputs
1. **Source paper**: PDF, DOI, or markdown of the paper to replicate
2. **Target database path**: CSV/SAS data file(s) to use
3. **Harmonization table** (optional): CSV mapping source → target variables
- Default: `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/harmonization_knhanes_nhanes.csv` (if KNHANES↔NHANES)
## Reference Files
- `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/methodology_extraction_template.md` — checklist for extracting study design
- `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/harmonization_knhanes_nhanes.csv` — KNHANES↔NHANES variable mapping (67 rows)
- `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/harmonization_3country.csv` — KNHANES+NHANES+CHNS 3-country mapping (46 rows)
- Upstream templates (read on demand):
- `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../write-paper/references/paper_types/nhis_cohort.md`
- `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../write-paper/references/paper_types/cross_national.md`
- `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../analyze-stats/references/analysis_guides/survey_weighted.md`
- `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../analyze-stats/references/analysis_guides/propensity_score.md`
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/replicate-study@sha256:b1f3d1b6092f9fe5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.c8ed96c, 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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The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Apr 17, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 33 days.
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| git:20260930.c8ed96c latest | 2026-09-30 | c8ed96c | 6,839 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.30387c2 | 2026-09-30 | 30387c2 | 6,585 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.913abeb | 2026-09-30 | 913abeb | 6,604 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260424.c34a0ae | 2026-04-24 | c34a0ae | 7,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260418.11caf95 | 2026-04-18 | 11caf95 | 7,387 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260417.f3c9456 | 2026-04-17 | f3c9456 | 6,676 B | A | view |
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Source
aperivue/medsci-skills · 366 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xplajnxc2toonizx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aperivue/medsci-skills/replicate-study GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b1f3d1b6092f9fe57da0192d6f9502fe9397b04115854208010517b0d70d8bb8
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