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New skills added: - teaching-lesson-plan: structured lesson plans for any subject/audience/setting - seo-content-brief: complete SEO briefs with intent, competitor gaps, and outline - media-pitch: story-first journalist pitches with angle development framework - change-management-plan: stakeholder analysis, comms strategy, adoption metrics - workshop-facilitation-guide: activity instructions, decision protocols, facilitator moves - sales-forecasting-model: pipeline model, scenario analysis, assumption log - tax-planning-checklist: year-end tax planning across income, pension, CGT, reliefs Quality improvements across all 93 existing skills: - Standardised description format: "Verb the thing. Use when X. Produces Y." - Added Required Inputs section to all skills missing it (prompts for missing info) - Added Quality Checks section to all skills missing it (specific, not generic) - Fixed broken multiline YAML descriptions - Removed non-standard frontmatter keys (tool_integration, metadata blocks) README updated to v6.0.0 with 100-skill count, new skill tables, and article series Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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name: research-protocol
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description: "Write a structured research protocol or study design document. Use when asked to write a research protocol, study protocol, research plan, methodology section, or research proposal. Produces a complete protocol with objectives, methodology, ethical considerations, and analysis plan."
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# Research Protocol Skill
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Produces structured research protocols for academic, clinical, social science, or market research studies.
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## Required Inputs
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- **Research type** (clinical trial / observational / qualitative / systematic review / survey)
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- **Research question or hypothesis**
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- **Setting and population**
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- **Proposed methodology**
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- **Timeline**
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- **Funder or institution** (if applicable)
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## Output Structure
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---
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# Research Protocol: [Study Title]
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**Version:** 1.0 | **Date:** [Date] | **PI:** [Name, institution]
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### 1. Background and Rationale
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- What is already known
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- What the gap in knowledge is
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- Why this study is needed now
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### 2. Research Objectives
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**Primary:** [One clear answerable question or hypothesis]
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**Secondary:** [Additional questions]
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### 3. Study Design
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- **Design:** [RCT / cohort / qualitative / mixed methods]
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- **Setting:** [Where]
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- **Duration:** [Total period and recruitment window]
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- **Rationale:** [Why this design fits the question]
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### 4. Participants
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**Inclusion criteria:** [List]
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**Exclusion criteria:** [List]
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**Sample size:** [n] — Basis: [Power calculation or saturation rationale]
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**Recruitment:** [Method and source]
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### 5. Methodology / Intervention
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For interventional: intervention description, control, randomisation, blinding
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For observational/qualitative: data collection methods, tools, data collectors
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### 6. Outcomes / Measures
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**Primary outcome:** [Measure], assessed by [method], at [timepoint]
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**Secondary outcomes:** [Measure], [method], [timepoint]
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### 7. Data Management
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- Storage: [Where and anonymisation method]
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- Access controls: [Who can access]
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- Retention: [How long]
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### 8. Analysis Plan
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Quantitative: [Statistical test], [missing data handling], [software]
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Qualitative: [Framework — e.g. Braun & Clarke], [quality assurance]
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### 9. Ethical Considerations
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- Ethics approval: [Body / reference]
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- Informed consent: [Process]
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- Confidentiality: [How maintained]
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- Risk to participants: [Assessment and mitigation]
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### 10. Dissemination Plan
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- Target journals: [2-3 relevant]
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- Conference presentations
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- Public/patient summary
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### 11. Timeline
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| Phase | Activities | Start | End |
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| Setup | Ethics, approvals, tool development | | |
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| Recruitment | | | |
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| Data collection | | | |
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| Analysis | | | |
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| Write-up | | | |
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## Quality Checks
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- [ ] Primary objective is singular and answerable (not compound)
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- [ ] Sample size has a stated basis (power calculation or saturation rationale)
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- [ ] Ethical considerations section is complete
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- [ ] Analysis plan is pre-specified (not "to be determined")
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- [ ] Timeline includes all phases from ethics approval to write-up
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## Example Trigger Phrases
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- "Write a research protocol for [study]"
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- "Help me design a study to investigate [question]"
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- "Write the methodology for my research proposal"
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