preregister-paper

preregister-paper is a skill for Claude Code from airas-org/airas. It costs 121 tokens per session (3,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preregistration workflow for writing a research paper before experiments run. Preregistration records the hypothesis, predictions, and experimental design in advance so they can be compared with later results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document hypotheses, expected result ranges, evaluation criteria, models, datasets, metrics, and compute requirements before running experiments.
Why use it?
It makes the original research plan traceable and reduces the risk of changing claims after seeing the data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the airas plugin — 9 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to document hypotheses, expected result ranges, evaluation criteria, models, datasets, metrics, and compute requirements before running experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/airas-org/airas/preregister-paper
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.

Any agent
npx skills add airas-org/airas --skill preregister-paper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/airas-org/airas

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install airas, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00121 $0.03336
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.01334
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00667
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00334

Measured 22d ago against content hash 21fa0befd63a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preregister-paper 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 22d 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.

plugins/airas/skills/preregister-paper/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preregister the paper

You write the paper before the pilot and full runs, from the hypothesis and experimental design. The experiment code and its platform sanity run come first, so the freeze commit contains the code the design was written against; sanity outputs are never imported and are not evidence. The commit that adds this paper is the preregistration record: every claim, criterion and expected result is frozen in git history before any result exists, so nothing can be quietly rewritten to fit the data later. Pilot and full runs are expected to descend from this commit.

main.tex lives in .research/latex/{template}/, where {template} is one of the bundled template directories (iclr2024, mdpi, agents4science_2025) — the name the verification tools address the paper by. The directory is only a slot: use the bundled style or your own preamble, keeping the usual structure (title, abstract, numbered sections, figures, bibliography). Write in the user's working language; a CJK paper needs a LuaTeX preamble (luatexja-fontspec — pdflatex silently drops non-Latin text from the PDF), and with the mdpi class also \RequirePackage{luatex85} before \documentclass (drop its pdftex option), since the class uses pdfTeX primitives LuaTeX no longer has. This skill only changes when the paper is written and how Results are stated.

Preconditions

  • A local clone of the experiment repository.
  • Hypothesis and experimental design exist as .research/design.json — the exact literature and hypotheses arguments of preregister_record, committed by hypothesize-and-design — or are supplied by the user. The design must fix the run ids (e.g. proposed, baseline) and the metrics; if it does not, settle those with the user first, because the placeholders below are named after them.
  • The papers the hypothesis rests on, each by the id of the .research/sources/<id>/ CI fetched it into, and the passages (page and verbatim quote) picked while reading. Nothing is in the record yet.
  • The experiment code is committed and one platform sanity run passed (write-experiment-code): everything that run read and called is covered by the design's params.
  • No pilot or full run has executed. Only sanity runs precede the freeze; pilot and full runs come after it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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.

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preregister-paper is a skill published in the GitHub repository airas-org/airas (39 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 3,336 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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