update-references SKILL.md skillA
update-references from petar-djukic/writing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add petar-djukic/writing-skills/update-references@git:20260901.175c9c6Pins git:20260901.175c9c6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- petar-djukic/writing-skills
- Path
.github/skills/update-references/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260901.175c9c6, committed Sep 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 16,711 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Find, download, read, and summarize research papers related to the work in the current directory. Searches arXiv, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar, with a hierarchical mode (hubs, surveys, citation snowball). Maintains a CSL-YAML reference database (references.yaml) compatible with pandoc's --bibliography flag, so the same file serves both the skill and document builds. Triggers: update references, refresh the bibliography, find papers, related work, literature review, what's…
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
# Update references (research paper search) This skill turns "find me what's been written about this" into a small, repeatable pipeline: read what the user is working on, search arXiv (and, for off-arXiv work, Semantic Scholar or Google Scholar) for related papers, download the relevant ones, read them, write a summary per paper, and keep a Citation Style Language (CSL) YAML database so work is never repeated and versions stay current. The standing interests are LLMs, AI agents, finite state machines, and declarative agent patterns — the territory of spindle (github.com/petar-djukic/spindle), a Go state-machine engine for agentic loops. Lean toward those topics, but always sharpen the search using whatever the current working directory is actually about. ## Where things live This skill is context-aware. It runs from the directory the user is working in, and it stores its outputs there — not in a fixed global location. Resolve paths like this: - **Database:** `references.yaml` under the current working directory, unless an existing one is already nearby (look for a `references.yaml` at or above …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add petar-djukic/writing-skills/update-references@sha256:73e7b684db0ad765The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260901.175c9c6, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Sep 1, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20260901.175c9c6 latest | 2026-09-01 | 175c9c6 | 16,711 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.a3f3285 | 2026-08-18 | a3f3285 | 15,969 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.165cfbf | 2026-08-13 | 165cfbf | 15,291 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.44da3a5 | 2026-08-13 | 44da3a5 | 14,808 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.38421ce | 2026-08-12 | 38421ce | 14,541 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16711 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
petar-djukic/writing-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_34j5k7w24rsptdel GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=petar-djukic/writing-skills/update-references GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/73e7b684db0ad7651dd67fe70ca361c72677dd928f64ad0a9b57b127d2353025
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