Find out if your experiment is publishable before you run it

Evaluate an experimental design prior to data collection to identify fatal methodological flaws, power constraints, or unaddressed threats to validity. Use this skill when planning a field or lab experiment to assess its publishability before committing resources.

The problem it solves

Researchers sink months into experiments that a target-journal reviewer later rejects on contribution or a broken comparison — flaws that were already visible at the abstract stage.

Domenika Uskova

When to use this

Describe the research moment this skill is for. Be concrete: "when a collaborator proposes an experiment with fewer than 200 units per arm", not "when doing research".

What good looks like

The standard this skill is holding the work to. What separates a defensible answer from a plausible-sounding one.

Procedure

Ask the researcher for X, Y, Z before doing anything else.
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Questions to ask the human

Failure modes to flag

Output format

Describe exactly what the agent should hand back.