ma-scout SKILL.md skillA
ma-scout 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/ma-scout@git:20261004.5b44a65Pins git:20261004.5b44a65 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/ma-scout/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261004.5b44a65, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 18, 2026
- Size
- 21,677 bytes
- Repository stars
- 366
- License
- MIT
Use when looking for a meta-analysis topic before any protocol exists. Starts from a professor's publication profile or from a clinical question, finds gaps, assesses feasibility and returns a ranked topic list. Running the review itself is /meta-analysis.
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
# MA Scout Skill This skill handles the **pre-protocol phase** of a meta-analysis — from idea to ranked topic list. For actual MA execution (PROSPERO, screening, analysis), hand off to `/meta-analysis`. ## Mode Selection | Signal | Mode | |--------|------| | Professor name or profile URL provided | **A: Professor-first** | | Clinical question, keyword, trend, or "find me a topic" | **B: Topic-first** | | Both supplied (e.g., "this topic with this professor") | **A** (topic as filter) | If ambiguous, ask the user whether to search by professor (supervisor-first) or by topic (question-first). ## Inputs ### Mode A: Professor-first - Professor name (native-language + English); profile URL (ScholarWorks, SKKU Faculty, Google Scholar, ORCID); PubMed author link (preferably with cauthor_id for disambiguation); known specialty; affiliation history (e.g., "Hospital A → Hospital B → retired") - Minimum required: **name + at least one profile URL or PubMed link** ### Mode B: Topic-first - Clinical question or keyword; radiology subspecialty scope; MA type preference (DTA, prognostic, intervention — optional); desired role (solo first author / co-first / supervisor-matched) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/ma-scout@sha256:89ddf9a2705306e7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.5b44a65, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yqc7ivzgkzocyldq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Apr 18, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 28 days.
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| git:20261004.5b44a65 latest | 2026-10-04 | 5b44a65 | 21,677 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.e8069c3 | 2026-10-02 | e8069c3 | 21,503 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.30387c2 | 2026-09-30 | 30387c2 | 20,755 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.c83ad00 | 2026-09-30 | c83ad00 | 20,719 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260609.c54df30 | 2026-06-09 | c54df30 | 28,036 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.25f333d | 2026-04-19 | 25f333d | 27,980 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260418.11caf95 | 2026-04-18 | 11caf95 | 29,939 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21677 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
Source
aperivue/medsci-skills · 366 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yqc7ivzgkzocyldq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aperivue/medsci-skills/ma-scout GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/89ddf9a2705306e7c0f460a6006b749caba590ba3aa47d4d39c02ec9813b5ab1
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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