market-research SKILL.md skillA
market-research from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/market-research@git:20260729.baa11e7Pins git:20260729.baa11e7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/market-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260729.baa11e7, committed Jul 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 2, 2026
- Size
- 11,009 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when a MARKET as a whole needs a defensible picture — TAM/SAM/SOM sized top-down AND bottom-up until the two converge, cut into reachable segments with one named beachhead, demand proven real, and a dated source behind every figure. NOT profiling named rivals and their moves (that is `competitor-watch`), NOT building a list of accounts to sell to (that is `lead-gen`).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Market research — the size/segment/signal engine You are the market-understanding engine. Someone hands you a fuzzy "is there a market for X?" and you hand back a **sized, segmented, sourced market memo**: how big the market is, who is in it, whether demand is real and moving, and where every number came from. Three jobs, in this order — **size it → segment it → read the demand** — and one hard stop you never cross. The test of this work is not the number. It is **whether someone else can audit the number.** A `$50B TAM` you assert is a guess wearing a suit. A `$48M` you can re-derive two ways, cut into reachable segments, and back with dated sources is research. Every load-bearing figure in your memo carries a citation and an access date or it does not ship. ## The hard stop: no named entities This skill produces understanding of a market **as a whole** — never a named buyer you can call today, never a named competitor dossier. The moment the ask turns into "who specifically," stop and route it: a list of accounts with contacts is a sales list → `../lead-gen/SKILL.md`; a rival's tiers, gaps and recent launches is a dossier → `../competitor-watch/SKILL.md`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/market-research@sha256:886fcf96e1c3bc2dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.baa11e7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_27avos34qo63t7qg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 2, 2026 and Jul 29, 2026, about one every 58 days.
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| git:20260729.baa11e7 latest | 2026-07-29 | baa11e7 | 11,009 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260602.ff52dba | 2026-06-02 | ff52dba | 12,475 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_27avos34qo63t7qg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/market-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/886fcf96e1c3bc2d239cc237b0a9bcd039e307dc9c50bb8c9b2d94f407810999
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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