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
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/irb-application-assistantWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/irb-application-assistant)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/irb-application-assistant"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/irb-application-assistant/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/irb-application-assistant"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/irb-application-assistant.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00054 | $0.02004 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.01002 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00401 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00200 |
Grade A, and why
irb-application-assistant 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 9d 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 — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
IRB Application Assistant
Helps researchers prepare, review, and submit Institutional Review Board (IRB) applications. Supports drafting informed consent templates, checking protocol compliance, generating application documents, and guiding researchers through the submission workflow.
When to Use
- Use this skill when the task needs Assists researchers with Institutional Review Board (IRB) application tasks, including drafting informed consent documents, reviewing research protocols for compliance, generating application forms, and preparing submission checklists. Use when the user mentions IRB, Institutional Review Board, research ethics, human subjects research, protocol review, informed consent, or needs help preparing or reviewing an IRB application or submission.
- Use this skill for academic writing tasks that require explicit assumptions, bounded scope, and a reproducible output format.
- Use this skill when you need a documented fallback path for missing inputs, execution errors, or partial evidence.
Key Features
- Scope-focused workflow aligned to: Assists researchers with Institutional Review Board (IRB) application tasks, including drafting informed consent documents, reviewing research protocols for compliance, generating application forms, and preparing submission checklists. Use when the user mentions IRB, Institutional Review Board, research ethics, human subjects research, protocol review, informed consent, or needs help preparing or reviewing an IRB application or submission.
- Packaged executable path(s):
scripts/main.py. - Reference material available in
references/for task-specific guidance. - Structured execution path designed to keep outputs consistent and reviewable.
Dependencies
Python:3.10+. Repository baseline for current packaged skills.Third-party packages:not explicitly version-pinned in this skill package. Add pinned versions if this skill needs stricter environment control.
What ships with it
2 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.
- 9d ago First seen · 215 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 3d4b86c070e4
irb-application-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository aipoch/medical-research-skills (1,869 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,004 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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