HiteSit releases a research Agent skill set
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HiteSit releases the real-scientist-skills research Agent skill set, adapted from Matt Pocock's engineering skills. Its proposition is to agree on only one experiment at a time, record expected results before running, and leave a Git-tracked experiment record and rerunnable files for each run. The installation instructions require running only once: if the target folder already has related skills, install only the six science skills under skills/science/; if not, install all skills under skills/engineering/ and skills/productivity/ together; if a skill with the same name is encountered, ask before replacing it.
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This repo adds six agent skills for running reproducible scientific experiments with coding agents, built on Matt Pocock's engineering skills: instead of planning a whole route up front, it plans one "probe" at a time, records the expected result before each run, and chooses the next probe from the evidence. Every run leaves a Git-tracked lab notebook and rerunnable files in a .science/ folder, and probe work reaches the main codebase only through /promote. The skills are setup-science, experiment, promote, lab-notebook, desk-research and ask-science, installed via a prompt that also installs Matt Pocock's skills if missing.
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