study-design-tool-gate

study-design-tool-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 201 tokens per session (556 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A study-design classifier and routing step for research papers. It identifies designs such as randomized trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, diagnostic-accuracy studies, reviews, animal studies, and prediction-model studies, then selects the relevant appraisal tool or marks the paper as not applicable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide which CASP, JBI, RoB2, or other specified variant should assess a paper, or whether no listed tool applies.
Why use it?
It prevents the wrong quality or bias checklist from being used and avoids forcing clinical tools onto papers that do not fit them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to decide which CASP, JBI, RoB2, or other specified variant should assess a paper, or whether no listed tool applies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/study-design-tool-gate
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 yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill study-design-tool-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 201 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 556 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 $0.00201 $0.00556
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00056

Measured 10d ago against content hash 944ef2edce09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

study-design-tool-gate 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 10d 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.

paper-reading/skills/study-design-tool-gate/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Study Design Tool Gate

Classifies study design and dispatches to the right bias-risk/quality/reporting tool + variant — or determines none applies. Added per coverage-audit M11: the original graph had no node representing this dispatch decision at all; every A1/A2 tool was drawn as if it started with no gate.

Execution

Subagent — spawned via spawn-agent skill.

Reference

references/tool-dispatch-table.md — the full dispatch table (every study_design → tool + variant mapping). Read before drafting the prompt's decision, not summarized inline here (kept out of this SKILL.md body per Progressive Disclosure).

"not_applicable" Is a Correct, Common Answer

This is worth restating: most of these tools carry medical/clinical assumptions baked into their domains, and forcing a dispatch onto a paper that has no matching study design produces a meaningless result, not a conservative one. Do not treat a high not_applicable rate across a batch of CS/ML papers as a sign this SOP is failing to trigger correctly.

Available SOPs

SOP When to use
spawn-agent Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access.
Files

What ships with it

3 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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 42 lines · 201 tokens per session scan A 944ef2edce09

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study-design-tool-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (449 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 201 tokens to every session and 556 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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