research SKILL.md skillA
research from andrewbrown-usda/aigb-skills-usda is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add andrewbrown-usda/aigb-skills-usda/research@git:20261014.d4e89aePins git:20261014.d4e89ae in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- andrewbrown-usda/aigb-skills-usda
- Path
skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261014.d4e89ae, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 28, 2026
- Size
- 1,098 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.
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
Spin up a **background agent** to do the research, so you keep working while it reads. Its job: 1. Investigate the question against **primary sources** - official docs, source code, specs, first-party APIs - not a secondary write-up of them. Follow every claim back to the source that owns it. 2. Write the findings to a single Markdown file, citing each claim's source. 3. Save it where the repo already keeps such notes; match the existing convention, and if there is none, put it somewhere sensible and say where.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add andrewbrown-usda/aigb-skills-usda/research@sha256:01b9d2271de25081The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.d4e89ae, 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_3puaix5bwhlrnxdh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261014.d4e89ae latest | 2026-10-14 | d4e89ae | 1,098 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.d1d0554 | 2026-10-09 | d1d0554 | 1,020 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.da773d3 | 2026-10-02 | da773d3 | 1,033 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.8c813e9 | 2026-10-02 | 8c813e9 | 1,008 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.b8f4ba9 | 2026-09-30 | b8f4ba9 | 1,276 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.482cd8b | 2026-09-30 | 482cd8b | 962 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-09-28 | 2112964 | 2,727 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 (1098 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
andrewbrown-usda/aigb-skills-usda · 7 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3puaix5bwhlrnxdh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=andrewbrown-usda/aigb-skills-usda/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/01b9d2271de250812afba2875cea90847a810bdd98959cf5f2be9fca6c6b4951
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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