pre-registration-writing SKILL.md skillA
pre-registration-writing 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/pre-registration-writing@git:20261008.697c89fPins git:20261008.697c89f 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
codex/pre-registration-writing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261008.697c89f, committed Oct 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 2, 2026
- Size
- 15,391 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Writes or reviews a pre-analysis plan before data collection: registry choice (OSF, AEA, AsPredicted, registered reports), locked models and decision rules, code run on simulated data, contingencies, and deviation records. Use when drafting or auditing a pre-registration or PAP, choosing a registry, or handling a 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
# Pre-Analysis Plan Writer **Standards anchor.** This skill operationalizes the pre-data-collection component of DA-RT (Data Access and Research Transparency; see Druckman-Green 2021 ch. 18 §18.1.3 for the canonical political-science framing and the APSA Guide to Professional Ethics). DA-RT obligates researchers to facilitate evaluation of evidence-based claims through data access, production transparency, and analytic transparency; a PAP is how analytic transparency is established *before* the data arrive. Reporting downstream of the PAP is the domain of the **methods-reporting** skill (APSA Experimental Section guidelines via Gerber et al. 2014; JARS). ## Instructions ### 1. Registry Selection - **EGAP is closed.** The EGAP registry stopped accepting new registrations on October 15, 2023; existing EGAP registrations remain searchable through OSF. Send political-science PAPs to OSF Registries (which offers an "EGAP Registration" form template mirroring the old fields) or, for randomized experiments, to the AEA RCT Registry. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/pre-registration-writing@sha256:6f53f196f7600ce9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.697c89f, 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_zru7byz5wuiaxsu5)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 2, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 49 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261008.697c89f latest | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 15,391 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 17,474 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260702.0d142fe | 2026-07-02 | 0d142fe | 16,924 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 (15391 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
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zru7byz5wuiaxsu5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/pre-registration-writing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f53f196f7600ce90e80accdcd32f56ef9bbbb58ae8cfeffa7717bb45d937857
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