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# Pre-Analysis Plan Writer **Standards anchor.** This skill operationalizes the pre-data-collection component of DA-RT (Data Access and Research Transparency; see Druckman-Green 2021 ch. 18 §18.1.3 for the canonical political-science framing and the APSA Guide to Professional Ethics). DA-RT obligates researchers to facilitate evaluation of evidence-based claims through data access, production transparency, and analytic transparency; a PAP is how analytic transparency is established *before* the data arrive. Reporting downstream of the PAP is the domain of the **methods-reporting** skill (APSA Experimental Section guidelines via Gerber et al. 2014; JARS). ## Instructions ### 1. Registry Selection - **OSF Registries (Open Science Framework):** Use for maximum flexibility. Supports free-form documents, file attachments (analysis code, stimuli), version control, and optional embargo periods. Registration is timestamped and immutable once confirmed. Best for complex designs that require supplementary materials. Also the default destination for political-science PAPs since the EGAP registry closed: OSF offers an "EGAP Registration" form template that mirrors the old EGAP fields. - **EGAP (Evidence in Governance and Politics) -- CLOSED:** EGAP stopped accepting new registrations on October 15, 2023. Existing EGAP registrations remain searchable through OSF. Researchers should now submit new registrations to **OSF Registries** (using the EGAP form template) or, for randomized expe