deep-research SKILL.md skillA
deep-research from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/deep-research@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/deep-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 6,131 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Runs a thorough multi-source research process - decompose the question, gather independent sources, cross-check, synthesize - and delivers a structured, cited brief with confidence levels and gaps. Use when someone asks "research this topic in depth", "give me everything on X", "what does the evidence say about Y", or needs a broad question answered from secondary sources with citations. Do NOT use for designing a study that collects new data - use primary-research instead; for distilling an…
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
# Deep Research Go wide, then deep: triangulate across independent sources and report what was actually found, including the gaps. The costly failure this skill prevents is the confident brief built on an echo - a dozen articles that all trace to one blog post or one press release, presented as consensus. "Not found" is a legitimate finding; a smooth answer papering over thin evidence is not. ## Inputs to collect 1. The research question, restated until the user confirms it. Ambiguity here multiplies through every later step. 2. What decision or output the research feeds. A brief informing a purchase differs from one informing a publication. 3. Scope boundaries: geography, industry, population, and what is explicitly out of scope. 4. Depth and deadline. Default: 3-6 sub-questions, at least two independent sources per sub-question. 5. Known sources or prior work to build on. Treat supplied sources as leads to appraise, not settled evidence. Label any assumed scope as an assumption. ## Operating procedure Order matters: sub-questions must exist before gathering, or the research becomes an unstructured pile shaped by whatever surfaced first. …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/deep-research@sha256:77a196c7790b6cf1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 6,131 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 6,096 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 6,118 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3mt7k5xprszgj46z GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/deep-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/77a196c7790b6cf108b21f22a9cb6ae8d1cc76c76bb7ffe6097847ca55674e4a
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.
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