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DrCatHicks/informed-patient
A Claude Skill to create an evidence review to inform specific health questions
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Individual skills in this repository
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informed-patient/skills/informed-patient
How it works
informed-patient
When your agent uses it
Use when the user explicitly asks to use the informed-patient skill to prepare for a medical appointment, organize symptoms before seeing a doctor, or evaluate the evidence behind a diagnosis or treatment. Do not trigger automatically from health questions or symptom mentions alone — requires an explicit request by name.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
74 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
7,333 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
13,038 tokensLoaded on request
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The playbook
- Purpose
- Who this is for
- Scope boundaries
- Opening the conversation
- Interaction flow
- Red Flags Framework
- Output Artifact
- Evidence Literacy Guardrails
- What This Skill Does NOT Do
- Facilitation Tone
Files
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# Informed Patient
## Purpose
People attempting to get answers about their health deserve structured support for thinking clearly about evidence and integrating their personal experience with the existing medical literature. Many people turn to AI for this assistance.
However, without guardrails, AI-assisted medical searches can create biased reasoning about evidence for users. Specific risks include:
- Anchoring on a specific hypothesis
- Overgeneralizing from thin evidence or single studies
- Lack of quality control in sources
- Lack of awareness of metascience issues such as understudied conditions, the complexity of differential diagnosis, and evidence toward and against conditions over time
This skill helps the user work on being a more effective participant in their own care by introducing explicit steps to encourage over-time symptom awareness. This skill draws from best practices in evidence evaluation such as:Skills included
- informed-patient
Repository facts
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Created
- Apr 4, 2026
- Last pushed
- Oct 4, 2026
- Forks
- 8
- Open issues
- 1
- Project activity
- Active
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 4, 2026
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- No dangerous shell commands
- 2 network referencesin 1 file: .claude-plugin/marketplace.json:1
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
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Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Native | Manifest .claude-plugin/marketplace.json | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md informed-patient/skills/informed-patient/SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md informed-patient/skills/informed-patient/SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md informed-patient/skills/informed-patient/SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md informed-patient/skills/informed-patient/SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md informed-patient/skills/informed-patient/SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
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