What problem does it solve? When an APM Manager turns a pre-registered study design into a dispatchable task, it is easy to accidentally change a parameter or decision rule without filing a pre-registration amendment, silently breaking the confirmatory integrity of the research. This Skill extracts the locked parameters, decision rule, and outcome-to-prose mapping from the pre-registration and detects whether a task merely executes the existing design or requires an amendment filed before dispatch. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Pre-Registration Extraction: Locates the governing pre-registration entry and its machine-readable JSON mirror, then extracts locked parameters, the decision rule, and the outcome-to-prose mapping. - Amendment Detection: Compares the intended task design against the pre-reg and flags any change to parameters, decision rules, null models, or eligibility rules as requiring a filed amendment before dispatch. - Task Prompt Generation: Emits the Research Assurance Requirements block, a task-state manifest, contract specifications, and dispatch-safety constraints (hard stops, blocking gates, no synthetic output in results). - Use Case: A Manager needs to rerun an analysis with a different asymmetry parameter. The Skill compares the change against the locked pre-reg, returns a verdict of "requires amendment before dispatch", and prevents an unregistered design choice from being baked into the run. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to convert the pre-registered design in the methods log into a dispatchable Task Prompt and check whether any amendment is needed first.
