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irb-application-assistant

Assists researchers with Institutional Review Board (IRB) application tasks, including drafting informed consent documents, reviewing research protocols for compliance, generating application forms, and preparing submission checklists. Use when the user mentions IRB, Instituti...

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Quality

88%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Content

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is highly actionable with concrete commands and a well-sequenced, checkpoint-gated workflow, but it is padded with verbatim description repetition and generic boilerplate, and its referenced files do not exist in the bundle.

Suggestions

Remove the verbatim description text duplicated in 'When to Use' and 'Key Features' — a short trigger summary suffices once the frontmatter description already covers it.

Either create the referenced bundle files (references/guide.md, references/examples/, references/audit-reference.md, scripts/main.py) or drop the references so navigation is not broken.

Trim generic boilerplate sections ('Output Requirements', 'Response Template', 'Input Validation') to the few lines that add IRB-specific value over what Claude already knows.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly actionable, but the full description is pasted verbatim into both 'When to Use' and 'Key Features', and sections like 'Output Requirements', 'Response Template', and 'Implementation Details' add generic boilerplate that could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready commands with concrete flags for each task, e.g. 'python scripts/main.py --task consent --protocol protocol.json --output consent_form.docx'.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The 'Recommended Workflow' is a clear numbered sequence with explicit ⛔ checkpoints and feedback loops ('review errors → fix each issue → re-run → only proceed when zero blocking errors').

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

References are signaled one level deep ('references/guide.md', 'references/examples/', 'references/audit-reference.md'), but no bundle files actually exist and the body is largely a monolithic inline wall with repeated content.

2 / 3

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12

Passed

Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, third-person description that names concrete capabilities, provides explicit 'Use when' triggers with natural terminology, and occupies a distinct niche. No significant weaknesses.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'drafting informed consent documents, reviewing research protocols for compliance, generating application forms, and preparing submission checklists' — matching the multi-action anchor.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly states what it does and follows with 'Use when the user mentions IRB...' answering both what and when with explicit triggers.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Covers natural terms a researcher would say — 'IRB, Institutional Review Board, research ethics, human subjects research, protocol review, informed consent' — with good variation coverage.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Occupies a clear IRB-application niche with distinct, domain-specific triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

81%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

relative_links

Relative link issues: 1 missing

Warning

referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 20 missing

Warning

Total

13

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16

Passed

Repository
aipoch/medical-research-skills
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