science-superpowers
v0.1.0by K-Dense-AI · author: K-Dense, Inc.
Computational-science methodology for research agents: question framing, prior-work survey, analysis design, pre-registration, reproducible execution, anomaly investigation, results verification, and red-team review.
What science-superpowers does, in the publisher's words
Science Superpowers is a complete computational-science methodology for your research agents, built on a set of composable skills plus initial instructions that make sure your agent actually uses them. It has zero third-party dependencies: it runs with only your agent harness and a POSIX shell.
> ⭐ If Science Superpowers helps your research, please star this repository. A star helps other scientists and engineers find the project and tells us the methodology is worth expanding. > > Learn more: Introducing Science Superpowers, why we built it, the Iron Law, and the full workflow. Related essays are collected under From the blog. > > Stay up to date: Follow K-Dense on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube for new skills, release announcements, and research workflow demos.
From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized · Open the README on GitHub
- Skills
- 16
- MCP servers
- 0
- Stars
- 371
- License
- MIT
- Repo created
- 2026-05-28
- Last pushed
- 2026-09-13
- Publisher type
- Organization
- Version
- 0.1.0
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Skills · 16
- designing-the-analysis
- Use when you have an approved research question and need a concrete analysis plan, before touching outcome data or fitting any model
- dispatching-parallel-investigations
- Use when facing 2+ independent investigations that can proceed without shared state, parallel literature survey, multi-dataset replication, or pre-specified robustness checks
- establishing-feasibility-first
- Use when your human partner has explicitly opted into exploratory or feasibility mode, a compute-heavy simulation, an unproven pipeline, an unbenchmarked solver, an untested cluster job, or when whether the work can run at all is still unknown, when a plan's largest configuration has never been e…
- executing-analysis
- Use when you have a pre-registered analysis plan to execute inline in this session with review checkpoints, on a platform without subagents
- framing-research-questions
- You MUST use this before any data analysis or investigation, before exploring a dataset, loading or profiling data, running a model, computing a statistic, or testing an idea, and before any outcome data is touched
- investigating-anomalous-results
- Use when a result is surprising, impossible, contradicts a sanity check, a pipeline fails, a model won't converge, or a replication fails, before adjusting anything
- preregistering-analysis
- Use before running any confirmatory analysis or looking at outcome data, when testing a hypothesis, computing a p-value, or about to claim an effect, locks predictions and decision rules before results are seen
- receiving-critical-review
- Use when receiving critical feedback on an analysis or manuscript, before implementing suggestions, especially if feedback seems unclear or methodologically questionable, requires verification, not performative agreement or blind changes
- reporting-and-archiving-findings
- Use when an analysis is complete and verified, and you need to decide how to report it and archive the work for reproducibility
- requesting-red-team-review
- Use after completing an analysis or before reporting a finding, to have a skeptical reviewer attack the conclusion before you believe it
- setting-up-reproducible-analysis
- Use when starting analysis work that needs isolation, or before executing a pre-registered plan, ensures an isolated, reproducible workspace with pinned environment, fixed seeds, and immutable raw data
- subagent-driven-analysis
- Use when executing a pre-registered analysis plan with mostly independent steps in the current session
- surveying-prior-work
- using-science-superpowers
- verifying-results-before-claiming
- writing-science-skills
Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.
Category
Research & Search. Assigned by this directory. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 has no category field, so no manifest declares one.
Keywords
skills · science · research · pre-registration · reproducibility · statistics · data-analysis · workflows
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