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mohitagw15856 f3b9d008fe feat: 100 skills milestone — 7 new skills + quality improvements across all 93
New skills added:
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- 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
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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>
2026-04-20 20:52:31 +01:00

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---
name: research-protocol
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."
---
# Research Protocol Skill
Produces structured research protocols for academic, clinical, social science, or market research studies.
## Required Inputs
- **Research type** (clinical trial / observational / qualitative / systematic review / survey)
- **Research question or hypothesis**
- **Setting and population**
- **Proposed methodology**
- **Timeline**
- **Funder or institution** (if applicable)
## Output Structure
---
# Research Protocol: [Study Title]
**Version:** 1.0 | **Date:** [Date] | **PI:** [Name, institution]
---
### 1. Background and Rationale
- What is already known
- What the gap in knowledge is
- Why this study is needed now
### 2. Research Objectives
**Primary:** [One clear answerable question or hypothesis]
**Secondary:** [Additional questions]
### 3. Study Design
- **Design:** [RCT / cohort / qualitative / mixed methods]
- **Setting:** [Where]
- **Duration:** [Total period and recruitment window]
- **Rationale:** [Why this design fits the question]
### 4. Participants
**Inclusion criteria:** [List]
**Exclusion criteria:** [List]
**Sample size:** [n] — Basis: [Power calculation or saturation rationale]
**Recruitment:** [Method and source]
### 5. Methodology / Intervention
For interventional: intervention description, control, randomisation, blinding
For observational/qualitative: data collection methods, tools, data collectors
### 6. Outcomes / Measures
**Primary outcome:** [Measure], assessed by [method], at [timepoint]
**Secondary outcomes:** [Measure], [method], [timepoint]
### 7. Data Management
- Storage: [Where and anonymisation method]
- Access controls: [Who can access]
- Retention: [How long]
### 8. Analysis Plan
Quantitative: [Statistical test], [missing data handling], [software]
Qualitative: [Framework — e.g. Braun & Clarke], [quality assurance]
### 9. Ethical Considerations
- Ethics approval: [Body / reference]
- Informed consent: [Process]
- Confidentiality: [How maintained]
- Risk to participants: [Assessment and mitigation]
### 10. Dissemination Plan
- Target journals: [2-3 relevant]
- Conference presentations
- Public/patient summary
### 11. Timeline
| Phase | Activities | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | Ethics, approvals, tool development | | |
| Recruitment | | | |
| Data collection | | | |
| Analysis | | | |
| Write-up | | | |
## Quality Checks
- [ ] Primary objective is singular and answerable (not compound)
- [ ] Sample size has a stated basis (power calculation or saturation rationale)
- [ ] Ethical considerations section is complete
- [ ] Analysis plan is pre-specified (not "to be determined")
- [ ] Timeline includes all phases from ethics approval to write-up
## Example Trigger Phrases
- "Write a research protocol for [study]"
- "Help me design a study to investigate [question]"
- "Write the methodology for my research proposal"