# analytical-method-validation

Plans validation, verification and transfer work for analytical procedures under ICH, USP, CLSI and ISO frameworks. Use it to assess whether a method suits its intended purpose.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 970 installs · ★ 54652
- Author: K-Dense-AI
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/analytical-method-validation

## What it does

This skill helps plan validation studies, calculate statistics and structure documentation for analytical procedures. Its scope includes HPLC, LC-MS/MS, GC, qPCR, NIR and the other listed techniques, plus method transfer and comparison across laboratories or instruments.

The `scripts` directory includes `plan_validation.py` for framework selection and study design, along with checks for response, accuracy and precision, and detection limits. `compare_methods.py` assesses whether two procedures are equivalent against a pre-stated margin. Scripts can produce table, TSV or JSON output; data goes to stdout while provenance and caveats go to stderr.

Choose the governing framework and define acceptance criteria before data collection. This matters because blending ICH Q2(R2), ICH M10, USP, CLSI and ISO/IEC 17025 requirements produces a protocol that meets none of them. The scripts require Python 3.11+ and use the standard library only, with no `numpy`, `scipy` or network access.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill analytical-method-validation -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/analytical-method-validation/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill analytical-method-validation -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill analytical-method-validation -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills analytical-method-validation
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill analytical-method-validation -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --path skills/analytical-method-validation
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills --skill analytical-method-validation -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/analytical-method-validation/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- plan an analytical method validation study
- test a calibration model across its range
- calculate recovery and between-day variability
- evaluate DL and QL with allowed approaches
- compare two procedures against an equivalence margin

## Example prompts
- Plan a validation study for my HPLC method under ICH Q2(R2).
- Check accuracy and precision using my controlled dataset.
- Compare two analytical procedures with `compare_methods.py` and a stated equivalence margin.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: analytical-method-validation
description: Plans, executes, and documents validation, verification, and transfer of analytical procedures under the governing framework - ICH Q2(R2) and Q14, USP <1220>/<1225>/<1226>, ICH M10 bioanalytical, CLSI EP, or ISO/IEC 17025. Use for HPLC, LC-MS/MS, GC, CE, ICP-MS, dissolution, qNMR, qPCR, NIR, and ligand binding or cell-based assays whenever the question is whether a procedure is fit for its intended purpose. Triggers include "method validation", "analytical method validation", "AMV", "validation protocol", "acceptance criteria", "linearity", "reportable range", "accuracy and precision", "repeatability", "intermediate precision", "recovery", "LOD", "LOQ", "detection limit", "quantitation limit", "specificity", "robustness", "method transfer", "method comparison", "Deming", "Passing-Bablok", "Bland-Altman", "equivalence testing", "OOS investigation", "ICH Q2", "Q2(R2)", "Q14", "USP 1225", "ICH M10", "incurred sample reanalysis", "ISR", "CLSI EP", and any request to show that an assay works.
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires Python 3.11+. Scripts use only the standard library - no numpy, scipy, or network access. Statistical distributions are computed from first principles so results are reproducible in any conforming interpreter.
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash
metadata:
  version: "2.0"
  skill-author: K-Dense Inc.
  last-reviewed: "2026-09-30"
---

# Analytical Method Validation

## When to use

Any time the question is whether an analytical procedure is fit for its intended purpose:
designing a validation study, evaluating validation data, verifying a compendial procedure,
transferring a procedure to another laboratory or instrument, or defending any of these in a
report.

## The two rules

**1. Establish which framework governs before designing anything.** The same assay validates
differently under ICH Q2(R2), USP <1225>, ICH M10, CLSI EP, and ISO/IEC 17025. They differ in
which characteristics are required, how the studies are laid out, and whether numeric acceptance
criteria are supplied at all. Blending them produces a protocol that satisfies none of them.

**2. State acceptance criteria before collecting data.** Criteria chosen after seeing results are
not acceptance criteria, and deciding them post hoc is a standing audit finding. ICH Q2(R2)
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