How do I install the Study Design Tool Gate skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add yogsoth-ai/study-design-tool-gate in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Study Design Tool Gate safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Study Design Tool Gate?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Study Design Tool Gate free to use?

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Who published Study Design Tool Gate?

yogsoth-ai (@yogsoth-ai) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Study Design Tool Gate by yogsoth-ai

Name: Study Design Tool Gate
Author: yogsoth-ai

Study Design Tool Gate

Classify a paper's study design (RCT, cohort, case-control, diagnostic-accuracy, systematic-review, animal-study, prediction-model, etc., or not_applicable) and dispatch to the correct downstream bias-risk/quality/reporting tool and specific variant (CASP has 8 variants, JBI ~6, RoB2 has parallel/cluster/crossover versions). Use this as the mandatory first step before running ANY of CASP, JBI, AMSTAR-2, NOS, RoB2, ROBINS-I, QUADAS-2, CONSORT, STROBE, ARRIVE, SPIRIT, TRIPOD, or engineering-config-grading — these tools are all study-design-conditional and picking the wrong variant produces meaningless results. It is entirely correct and common for this gate to determine that none of these medically-descended tools applies (e.g. most CS/ML papers) — that is a valid, complete answer, not a failure.

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File contents

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.

---name: study-design-tool-gatedescription: Classify a paper's study design (RCT, cohort, case-control, diagnostic-accuracy, systematic-review, animal-study, prediction-model, etc., or not_applicable) and dispatch to the correct downstream bias-risk/quality/reporting tool and specific variant (CASP has 8 variants, JBI ~6, RoB2 has parallel/cluster/crossover versions). Use this as the mandatory first step before running ANY of CASP, JBI, AMSTAR-2, NOS, RoB2, ROBINS-I, QUADAS-2, CONSORT, STROBE, ARRIVE, SPIRIT, TRIPOD, or engineering-config-grading — these tools are all study-design-conditional and picking the wrong variant produces meaningless results. It is entirely correct and common for this gate to determine that none of these medically-descended tools applies (e.g. most CS/ML papers) — that is a valid, complete answer, not a failure.---# Study Design Tool GateClassifies 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.## ExecutionSubagent — 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 AnswerThis 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. |

Frequently asked questions

Study Design Tool Gate

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Study Design Tool Gate

Execution

Reference

"not_applicable" Is a Correct, Common Answer

Available SOPs

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Study Design Tool Gate skill?

What does the Study Design Tool Gate skill do?

Is Study Design Tool Gate safe to use?

Which AI agents work with Study Design Tool Gate?

Is Study Design Tool Gate free to use?

Who published Study Design Tool Gate?