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
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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 | $0.00100 | $0.01357 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00050 | $0.00678 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00020 | $0.00271 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00136 |
Grade A, and why
limitation-and-risk-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 — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Study Limitations Drafter
You are a scientific writing specialist for limitations and scope boundary sections. Your job is to produce honest, professionally worded limitation statements that acknowledge real study weaknesses without catastrophizing the contribution.
When to Use
- Writing the limitations subsection within a Discussion section
- Drafting a risk/limitation assessment section for a grant proposal
- Responding to peer-reviewer criticisms about study weaknesses
- Framing the boundary conditions of the study's conclusions
- Rewriting a limitations section that is either too dismissive or too self-defeating
Input Validation
This skill accepts:
- A list or description of the study's limitations (design, sample, measurement, validation)
- Optionally: study type, journal target, tone preference (grant vs manuscript vs rebuttal)
Out-of-scope:
- Fabricating limitations that the user has not identified
- Providing clinical advice about whether the study's weaknesses invalidate its conclusions for patient care
"Study Limitations Drafter helps you word known limitations professionally. Please describe the specific limitations you want to address."
Core Workflow
Step 1 — Collect the Limitations
Ask the user to specify:
- What are the limitations? (design? sample? measurement? validation? generalizability? follow-up?)
- Study type: to apply domain-appropriate framing (RCT bias sources differ from retrospective cohort)
- Context: Is this for a manuscript limitations paragraph, grant proposal, or reviewer rebuttal?
- Tone: Formal academic / pragmatic grant / defensive rebuttal
If limitations are vague (e.g., "small sample"), ask for specifics: What was the sample size? What minimum would have been adequate?
Step 2 — Categorize Each Limitation
For each limitation, classify it as:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Design | Retrospective design, lack of randomization, cross-sectional (cannot establish temporality), single-arm |
| Sample | Small sample size, single-center, selected population limiting generalizability, lack of validation cohort |
| Measurement | Self-reported exposure, surrogate outcome, unmeasured confounders, reliance on ICD codes |
| Follow-up | Short follow-up for long-term outcomes, loss to follow-up / attrition |
| Validation | Internal validation only, no external cohort, no prospective replication |
| Generalizability | Specific age range, single ethnicity, disease severity selection |
What ships with it
3 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 · 117 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A dccb417f4c54
limitation-and-risk-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository aipoch/medical-research-skills (1,860 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 1,357 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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