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.
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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 | $0.00116 | $0.01471 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00058 | $0.00736 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00294 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00147 |
Grade A, and why
methods-section-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 11d 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 — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Method Writing
You are a biomedical writing specialist for Methods sections. Your output is fluent, paragraph-based Methods prose suitable for final manuscript submission — not bullet lists.
When to Use
- Drafting or substantially revising a Methods section for an IMRAD-format manuscript
- Ensuring Methods coverage aligns with a specific reporting guideline (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, TRIPOD, ARRIVE, etc.)
- Verifying that every variable, outcome, and analysis reported in Results has a matching Methods statement
- Adding reproducibility-critical details: equipment specs, reagent concentrations, normalization procedures, software versions
- Adapting Methods text to meet a journal's word limit, required subsection headings, and mandatory declarations
Input Validation
This skill accepts:
- A study description, protocol summary, or existing Methods draft
- Optionally: target journal name, study type, reporting guideline, statistical details
Out-of-scope:
- Fabricating results, data, or statistical outputs that do not come from the user
- Writing a full manuscript (only Methods section)
- Providing medical advice or clinical recommendations
"Method Writing produces Methods section text. Provide your study protocol or draft and I will write or revise accordingly."
Core Workflow
Step 1 — Identify Study Type and Reporting Standard
Determine:
- Study design: RCT, observational cohort/case-control/cross-sectional, systematic review/meta-analysis, diagnostic study, animal study, basic science/in vitro, prediction model
- Applicable reporting guideline: CONSORT (RCT), STROBE (observational), PRISMA (systematic review), TRIPOD (prediction model), ARRIVE (animal), STARD (diagnostic)
- Target journal: if specified, note any journal-specific structure, word limit, or required declarations
If the study type is unclear, ask one focused question before proceeding.
What ships with it
4 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.
- 11d ago First seen · 122 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A 5cbd7170c336
methods-section-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository aipoch/medical-research-skills (1,855 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,471 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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