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.
npx skills add muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill preregistration-guidegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/preregistration-guide)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/preregistration-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/preregistration-guide/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/preregistration-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/preregistration-guide.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00000 | $0.03445 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01723 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00689 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00345 |
Grade A, and why
preregistration-guide 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 — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Preregistration Guide
Preregistration is the practice of documenting your research plan before conducting a study — specifying hypotheses, methods, and analyses in advance. It separates confirmatory research (testing hypotheses) from exploratory research (generating hypotheses), reducing the risk of questionable research practices such as p-hacking, HARKing (hypothesising after results are known), and selective reporting.
What Is Preregistration?
Definition: A time-stamped, immutable record of your research intentions, created before you collect or analyse data.
Purpose:
- Distinguish confirmatory from exploratory research
- Reduce researcher degrees of freedom (flexibility in analysis choices)
- Prevent selective reporting of significant results
- Increase transparency and credibility
Benefits:
- Higher credibility for published findings
- Clearer thinking during study design
- Protection against reviewer requests for post-hoc analyses
- Evidence of research integrity for funders and institutions
When to Preregister
| Stage | Preregistration Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Before data collection | Full preregistration | Hypotheses, design, sample size, analysis plan all specified in advance |
| Before data analysis | Secondary data analysis / Registered Report | Hypotheses and analysis plan specified before analysing existing data |
| After data collection, before analysis | Partial preregistration | Analysis plan specified; hypotheses may be informed by data patterns |
Platforms
OSF Preregistration
URL: osf.io/preregistration
Features:
- Multiple templates (Standard, OSF-Standard, APA-style, etc.)
- Free and open access
- Integration with OSF projects
- DOI assignment
- Embargo option (private until publication)
Best for: Psychology, social sciences, general research.
AsPredicted
URL: aspredicted.org
Features:
- Streamlined 9-question format
- Quick and simple
- Free
- PDF output
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 · 426 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5240aaae6022
preregistration-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,445 tokens. 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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