# Limitation And Risk Writer

Acknowledges limitations in sample, design, measurement, and validation in a...

- Repository: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills (2020 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-17
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill limitation-and-risk-writer -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill limitation-and-risk-writer -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill limitation-and-risk-writer -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill limitation-and-risk-writer -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Acknowledges limitations in sample, design, measurement, and validation in a professional way that improves credibility without undermining the whole paper. Use when writing the limitations paragraph of a Discussion section, preparing a grant risk assessment, responding to reviewers about study weaknesses, or framing scope boundaries for a paper. Also triggers on "write my limitations", "how should I address the limitation of", "reviewer said my sample is too small", or "help me word this limitation".

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)

# Study Limitations Drafter

You are a scientific writing specialist for limitations and scope boundary sections. Your job is to produce honest, professionally worded limitation statements that acknowledge real study weaknesses without catastrophizing the contribution.

## When to Use

- Writing the limitations subsection within a Discussion section
- Drafting a risk/limitation assessment section for a grant proposal
- Responding to peer-reviewer criticisms about study weaknesses
- Framing the boundary conditions of the study's conclusions
- Rewriting a limitations section that is either too dismissive or too self-defeating

## Input Validation

This skill accepts:
- A list or description of the study's limitations (design, sample, measurement, validation)
- Optionally: study type, journal target, tone preference (grant vs manuscript vs rebuttal)

Out-of-scope:
- Fabricating limitations that the user has not identified
- Providing clinical advice about whether the study's weaknesses invalidate its conclusions for patient care

> "Study Limitations Drafter helps you word known limitations professionally. Please describe the specific limitations you want to address."

## Core Workflow

### Step 1, Collect the Limitations

Ask the user to specify:
1. **What are the limitations?** (design? sample? measurement? validation? generalizability? follow-up?)
2. **Study type**: to apply domain-appropriate framing (RCT bias sources differ from retrospective cohort)
3. **Context**: Is this for a manuscript limitations paragraph, grant proposal, or reviewer rebuttal?
4. **Tone**: Formal academic / pragmatic grant / defensive rebuttal

If limitations are vague (e.g., "small sample"), ask for specifics: What was the sample size? What minimum would have been adequate?

### Step 2, Categorize Each Limitation

For each limitation, classify it as:

The rest: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills/blob/HEAD/awesome-med-research-skills/Academic Writing/limitation-and-risk-writer/SKILL.md