clinical-research

clinical-research is a skill for Codex from bestagentkits/agency-skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,585 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing prospective clinical studies before submitting them for review. It focuses on study endpoints, sample size and statistical power, and feasibility checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify endpoints, estimate participants or events for two-arm studies, account for dropout, and score whether a study plan is feasible.
Why use it?
It helps research teams turn an early study idea into a more structured plan while making assumptions and uncertainties explicit.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex; mentions Gemini CLI; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to classify endpoints, estimate participants or events for two-arm studies, account for dropout, and score whether a study plan is feasible.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/clinical-research
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bestagentkits/agency-skills --skill clinical-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestagentkits/agency-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,585 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.
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 $0.00152 $0.02585
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01293
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00259

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2ee6764353ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clinical-research 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/ar_evaluator.py, scripts/config_loader.py, scripts/endpoint_selector.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/claude-skills/clinical-research/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

clinical-research

Prospective clinical study DESIGN: endpoints, sample size / power, and phase-gate feasibility. Every output is an estimate with stated assumptions routed to a named human owner. This skill never gives clinical advice as fact and never substitutes for a biostatistician or regulatory affairs.

Purpose

R&D clinical teams, medical monitors, and biostatistics functions live at the moment between we-have-a-hypothesis and we-have-a-protocol-ready-for-submission. This skill structures three of the hardest design decisions:

Three deterministic tools:

  1. sample_size_estimator.py — Closed-form power / sample-size for two-arm means (Cohen's d), proportions (normal approximation), and survival (Schoenfeld events). Inflates for dropout. Prints an "ESTIMATE — confirm with a biostatistician" banner.
  2. endpoint_selector.py — Scores candidate endpoints across 5 weighted dimensions (clinical relevance, measurability, regulatory acceptance, sensitivity-to-change, burden) and classifies each as PRIMARY / KEY-SECONDARY / EXPLORATORY. Penalizes unvalidated surrogate endpoints.
  3. phase_gate_scorer.py — Scores a study plan 0-100 across recruitment feasibility, endpoint readiness, statistical power, operational complexity, and budget fit; returns GO / GO-WITH-CONDITIONS / REDESIGN / NO-GO plus the named owners who must sign.

When to use

Invoke this skill when:

  • You are choosing a primary endpoint and need to defend it against surrogate-endpoint scrutiny.
  • You need a defensible first sample-size estimate for a protocol synopsis.
  • A study plan needs a feasibility read before a phase-gate review.
  • You are pressure-testing whether the planned enrollment is achievable given the eligible population and sites.

Do NOT use this skill to: prepare a regulatory submission or clinical evaluation report (use ra-qm-team), find or position a grant (use research/grants), design a live product A/B experiment (use product-team/experiment-designer), or replace a biostatistician's final sample-size justification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 147 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 2ee6764353ca

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clinical-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/agency-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,585 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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