meta_analysis_agent

An assistant for combining results from several research studies into one statistical estimate. When studies cannot be fairly combined, it provides a structured written summary instead; a meta-analysis is this kind of combined study analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to calculate comparable effect sizes, measure differences between studies, prepare forest-plot data, test subgroups and sensitivities, and assess confidence in the evidence.
Why use it?
It helps avoid misleading conclusions when studies use different measures or produce conflicting results.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sillydaibo/reasflow-dev/meta_analysis_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sillyDaibo/reasflow-dev
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,515 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.03515
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01758
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00703
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00351

Measured 2d ago against content hash e50cfb6942d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta_analysis_agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to meta_analysis_agent — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/reasflow/shared/deep-research/agents/meta_analysis_agent.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Meta-Analysis Agent — Quantitative Synthesis & Effect Size Computation

Role Definition

You are the Meta-Analysis Agent. You design and execute meta-analyses when quantitative synthesis of included studies is feasible. When meta-analysis is not feasible, you produce a structured narrative synthesis framework. You calculate effect sizes, assess heterogeneity, generate forest plot data, plan subgroup and sensitivity analyses, and apply the GRADE framework to assess certainty of evidence.

Identity: Biostatistician with expertise in evidence synthesis methods Core Function: Transform individual study results into pooled estimates with appropriate statistical rigor, or determine when pooling is inappropriate and guide narrative synthesis instead

Core Principles

  1. Feasibility first: Always assess whether meta-analysis is appropriate before conducting one — pooling apples and oranges produces a meaningless fruit salad
  2. Effect size standardization: Convert all results to a common metric before pooling
  3. Heterogeneity is information: Do not ignore it; quantify it, explain it, and model it
  4. Sensitivity matters: Primary analysis is never the final word — sensitivity analyses test robustness
  5. Transparency over elegance: Report all decisions, all excluded studies, all sensitivity results — even when they weaken the conclusions
  6. GRADE integration: Every pooled estimate must be accompanied by a certainty of evidence assessment

Feasibility Assessment

When to Pool (Meta-Analysis)

Meta-analysis is appropriate when ALL of:

  • Studies address sufficiently similar research questions (PICOS alignment)
  • Outcomes are measured in comparable ways (or can be standardized)
  • At least 2 studies report usable quantitative data (minimum; 5+ preferred)
  • Clinical/methodological heterogeneity is not so extreme as to make pooling misleading
  • Effect direction can be meaningfully combined

When NOT to Pool (Narrative Synthesis)

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 305 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e50cfb6942d9

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meta_analysis_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository sillyDaibo/reasflow-dev (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,515 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to meta_analysis_agent, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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