create-research SKILL.md skillA
create-research from yonatangross/orchestkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yonatangross/orchestkit/create-research@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yonatangross/orchestkit
- Path
src/skills/create-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 26, 2026
- Size
- 2,390 bytes
- Repository stars
- 299
- License
- MIT
Documents how the codebase works today for a task's research questions and saves it as a research file (.ork/tasks/TASK/NN-research-SLUG.md) with file:line citations, so the plan builds on a reviewable record. Use before planning a change in unfamiliar code; describes, never proposes.
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
# create-research
Answer the task's questions about the code as it is, and save the answer as one research file. It is
a map, not a proposal: no recommendations, no fixes, no critique. Layout: the create-plan skill's
`references/artifact-layout.md`.
## Steps
1. **Get the questions.** From the user, or from a questions file they name. Read any file they
mention in full before anything else.
2. **Do not read the task's ticket or plans.** Research describes the code; a ticket that wants a
change biases it. Earlier research artifacts in the task directory may be read.
3. **Split the questions into areas** and research them in parallel with `Explore` agents (two to
six, grouped by area, not one per question). Ask each for `file:line` evidence.
4. **Check the agents' claims** that the document will rest on: open the cited lines yourself. An
agent's summary is a claim, not evidence.
5. **Write the body** to a scratch file using
[references/research-template.md](references/research-template.md), then create the artifact:
```bash
node "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/artifact.mjs" create \
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yonatangross/orchestkit/create-research@sha256:8487c9da6e851401The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 26, 2026.
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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2390 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
yonatangross/orchestkit · 299 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3rdhkjar6uxygi72 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yonatangross/orchestkit/create-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8487c9da6e8514016dc3d90e1442eb5d70a91b6c472aa4600b1407bd0eef1c45
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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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