ma-topic-intake

A PICO protocol structures your meta-analysis topic into Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcomes. This skill converts raw topic text into a formal PICO/PECO scaffold, generating pico.yaml and eligibility criteria to standardize your research question.

Defining study eligibility criteria requires structured protocol documents like eligibility.md and outcomes.md. By providing your raw topic text, the system generates these files to establish clear inclusion parameters, study types, and outcomes for your systematic review.

Structuring a meta-analysis search scope involves generating a search-plan.md file alongside your PICO protocol. This process takes your initial topic and defines the prepared search scope to accelerate project start and ensure reproducible literature retrieval.

Use PECO instead of PICO when your meta-analysis focuses on Exposures rather than Interventions. The protocol intake process translates your topic into the appropriate PECO or PICO format, setting the correct analysis_type for your research question.

Yes, you can generate a complete protocol scaffold from a plain text topic description. The system intakes your raw TOPIC.txt file and automatically populates pico.yaml, eligibility.md, outcomes.md, and a decision-log.md to record initial assumptions.