survey-instrument-verification

survey-instrument-verification is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall. It costs 20 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for checking whether a research manuscript accurately describes the survey that was administered, using the raw survey data and related records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify survey methods sections, appendices, and claims that a questionnaire was reproduced exactly as administered.
Why use it?
It catches differences in scale size, response options, item counts, and exact wording before survey findings are edited or published.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to verify survey methods sections, appendices, and claims that a questionnaire was reproduced exactly as administered.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabioc-aloha/alex_skill_mall/survey-instrument-verification
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall --skill survey-instrument-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 460 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9a939af81223, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey-instrument-verification 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 12d 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/academic-research/survey-instrument-verification/skills/survey-instrument-verification/SKILL.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

Survey Instrument Verification

The Problem

Manuscripts evolve terminology that may not match what was actually administered:

Manuscript says: "We measured perceived safety using a 5-point scale"
Raw data shows: 7-point scale with different anchors

Manuscript says: "Participants rated their agreement with 12 items"
Raw data shows: 14 items (2 were dropped but not documented)

The Solution

Before editing survey-related content, verify against raw data.

1. Check Scale Parameters

Manuscript Claims Verify In Data
Number of points Actual min/max values
Anchor labels Codebook or data dictionary
Number of items Count of columns/variables
Response options Unique values in data

2. Verify Item Wording

Manuscript Appendix: "How safe do you feel walking at night?"
Actual survey item: "How safe do you feel walking alone at night?"
                                         ^^^^^
                                    Missing word!

Compare exact wording:

  • Survey instrument file (if available)
  • Qualtrics/SurveyMonkey export
  • IRB-approved protocol

3. Check for "Exactly As Administered" Claims

If an appendix claims "items shown exactly as administered":

# Line-by-line comparison
diff manuscript-appendix.txt original-survey.txt

This claim is a testable hypothesis — test it.

Verification Checklist

  • Scale points match (5-point? 7-point? Likert?)
  • Anchor labels match ("Strongly agree" vs "Completely agree")
  • Item count matches (after exclusions?)
  • Item wording is verbatim (if claimed)
  • Response coding matches (1-5 vs 0-4)

When to Apply

  • Editing methods sections describing surveys
  • Reviewing appendices with survey items
  • Any manuscript with quantitative survey data

Tags

academic surveys verification data-quality

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. 12d ago First seen · 77 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 9a939af81223

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survey-instrument-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabioc-aloha/Alex_Skill_Mall (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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