pre-registration

Preregistration documents organize your study plan—hypotheses, design, sampling, variables, and analysis—into structured templates before data collection. This Skill generates these documents compatible with OSF, AsPredicted, and ClinicalTrials.gov platforms to promote transparency and prevent HARKing.

Preregistration is a formal, time-stamped commitment of your study design and analysis plan deposited on a public registry before data collection begins. It differs from informal protocols by creating an auditable record that distinguishes planned analyses from post-hoc discoveries, strengthening reproducibility and open science compliance.

Yes. Preregistration applies across disciplines for grant submissions, reproducibility initiatives, and open science compliance. This Skill structures Study Information, Hypotheses, Design, Sampling, Variables, and Analysis Plan into formats that funding agencies and journals recognize.

No prior platform experience is required. This Skill generates preregistration artifacts in templates compatible with these platforms, handling the structural formatting so you focus on documenting your study design and analysis plan.

Include study title and authors, funding sources, research hypotheses, study design details, sampling strategy, variable definitions, and your complete analysis plan. This Skill prompts you through each section and organizes them into formats ready for OSF, AsPredicted, or ClinicalTrials.gov submission.

Preregistration creates a public record of your planned analyses before results are known, distinguishing confirmatory hypothesis tests from exploratory findings. This prevents HARKing—hypothesizing after results are known—and strengthens evidence credibility by making researcher degrees of freedom transparent.