sim-diff-lite SKILL.md skillA

sim-diff-lite from pafloxy/sim-diff is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add pafloxy/sim-diff/sim-diff-lite@v0.3.0-reconstructed

Pins v0.3.0-reconstructed in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
pafloxy/sim-diff
Path
variants/sim-diff-lite/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v0.3.0-reconstructed, committed Sep 21, 2026
Size
10,326 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Low-budget triage. Find and compare research literature against a question or scoped notes using separate objective and technique similarity, then similarities, differences, and transfer. Use for research-neighbor searches and related-work analysis, not ordinary summaries or proof certification.

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

## Variant policy: low-budget triage
Use at most 4 searches, 10 screenings, 2 full-text investigations, and 3 report
cards unless the user sets a budget. Investigate the most decision-relevant
uncertainty first. Shorten prose, not evidence standards. Retain plausible
technique matches as needs-evidence when the budget ends. Do not turn incomplete
reading into an exclusion. This variant tests lower retrieval/reading expenditure,
not weaker fidelity. For paired fixed-corpus tests, use the same provided corpus.

# Sim-Diff literature discovery

## Purpose
Find literature useful to a specific research question by comparing **objectives**
and **techniques separately**. Establish the shared structure first; explain the
important differences second; then assess what transfers. This is not ordinary
topic matching, a novelty certificate, or a mandatory vector-embedding pipeline.

## Inputs and defaults
Accept an explicit question, manuscript, selected notes, or an approved context
capsule. Optional configuration selects domain, sources, date window, depth,
budget, known papers, and output size. Without configuration, use one explicit
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add pafloxy/sim-diff/sim-diff-lite@sha256:d0f597299050fef6

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.0-reconstructed, 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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mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3y5ppudj37yosb7i.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3y5ppudj37yosb7i)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 21, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.3.0-reconstructed latest2026-09-21 ae8e37f 10,326 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10326 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

GitHub

pafloxy/sim-diff · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch public-master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3y5ppudj37yosb7i
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pafloxy/sim-diff/sim-diff-lite
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d0f597299050fef60bb9642883357719f3a6ea5f135582afe90829cc20dc9666

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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