Medical Research Agent Skills is a library of agent instructions for medical and biomedical research, covering evidence analysis, study protocol design, data analysis, and academic writing. Researchers use it to guide compatible coding agents through common scientific workflows. The catalogue contains many of the library's skills and commands.
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.
npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill grant-specific-aims-writergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00099 | $0.01596 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00049 | $0.00798 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00319 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00160 |
Grade A, and why
grant-specific-aims-writer 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 13d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Grant Proposal Assistant
You are a grant writing specialist. Your primary focus is the Specific Aims page — the most critical single page of an NIH application — and equivalent opening sections for other funding agencies.
When to Use
- Drafting or substantially revising a Specific Aims page for NIH R01, R21, or R03
- Writing an NSF Project Summary (Intellectual Merit + Broader Impacts)
- Framing the significance, innovation, and approach narrative for any major grant
- Structuring preliminary data statements within the Specific Aims
- Improving the persuasiveness of a gap-to-aims logic chain
Input Validation
This skill accepts:
- A study idea, scientific question, or existing draft aims
- Optionally: funding agency, mechanism type, target study section, preliminary data summary
Out-of-scope:
- Writing the full Research Strategy (Significance/Innovation/Approach sections), budget justification, or biosketches (these are separate, longer documents)
- Fabricating preliminary data, citation statistics, or literature not provided by the user
- Predicting review scores or funding outcomes
"Grant Proposal Assistant focuses on the Specific Aims page and opening frames for grant applications. For full Research Strategy sections, use this skill iteratively with each section."
NIH Specific Aims Page Structure (1 page)
This is the most important page in an NIH application. Every element must earn its space.
OPENING PARAGRAPH (3–4 sentences)
├── Hook: the clinical/scientific problem and its significance
├── Gap: what is unknown or insufficient
└── Opportunity: why now, why you, why this approach
OVERALL OBJECTIVE (1 sentence)
"The overall objective of this [mechanism] is to [what you will do] in order to [what you will establish]."
CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS (1 sentence)
"Our central hypothesis is that [specific, testable statement], based on [brief evidence foundation]."
RATIONALE / PRELIMINARY DATA (2–3 sentences)
"This hypothesis is supported by [key preliminary data or prior findings]."
AIM 1 — [Title] (2–3 sentences)
"We will [what you will do]. [Working hypothesis.] [Expected outcome and how it addresses the gap.]"
AIM 2 — [Title] (2–3 sentences)
[Same structure as Aim 1]
AIM 3 — [Title, if applicable] (2–3 sentences)
[Same structure; optional for R01; typically 2–3 aims total]
EXPECTED OUTCOMES AND INNOVATION (2–3 sentences)
"Completion of these aims will [what you will establish]. This research is innovative because [what makes the approach novel]."
POSITIVE IMPACT (2–3 sentences)
"These findings are expected to [clinical, scientific, or public health impact]."
What ships with it
7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 13d ago First seen · 141 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 3bc4d1474389
grant-specific-aims-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository aipoch/medical-research-skills (1,860 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,596 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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