researching-prior-art SKILL.md skillA
researching-prior-art from brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/researching-prior-art@git:20261006.7677f7fPins git:20261006.7677f7f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator
- Path
skills/researching-prior-art/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261006.7677f7f, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 23, 2026
- Size
- 36,706 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Grounds one technology decision in verified external evidence before design approaches are compared. Dispatches a controller subagent that runs N read-only researcher subagents in parallel (candidate source reading, version verification anchored to this repository's manifest, registry existence and health, prior art) and merges their file-based reports into one evidence report. Invoked by brainstorming at its research gate with the decision, candidate list, N, topic slug, and project…
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
# Researching Prior Art Gather verified external evidence for one technology decision, in parallel, without touching the working tree outside `docs/research/` and `.superpowers/research/`. Evidence only — this skill never chooses an approach. **When invoked by brainstorming, never ask the user anything** — all user interaction already happened at brainstorming's research gate. The one exception: invoked directly by the user without an explicit N, present the gate message below yourself to obtain N (the user is the invoker; no gate has happened yet). Never pick N silently. On every invocation path — whether the gate message below is shown or not — a non-zero N ends, on success, with findings cached under `docs/research/` and committed to the currently checked-out branch in this repository, unless HEAD is detached, in which case the commit is skipped and the cache stays uncommitted on disk (step 6 item 5, sub-step 5e). State this to the invoker before that commit can run. On that direct path, present this gate message verbatim — the same block brainstorming presents, copied character-exactly (`<candidates>`, `<S>`, and `<branch>` filled in — the backticks around them are …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/researching-prior-art@sha256:16e0955fb9070217The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.7677f7f, 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_4rvxucjxjudg5kgw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Aug 23, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261006.7677f7f latest | 2026-10-06 | 7677f7f | 36,706 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.4082ea1 | 2026-10-06 | 4082ea1 | 36,562 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.7182d42 | 2026-09-07 | 7182d42 | 37,603 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.6dd6ae6 | 2026-09-06 | 6dd6ae6 | 37,440 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.bf36332 | 2026-09-06 | bf36332 | 37,252 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.7aa1b99 | 2026-08-24 | 7aa1b99 | 37,107 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.0f830ab | 2026-08-24 | 0f830ab | 36,503 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.204f7f8 | 2026-08-23 | 204f7f8 | 35,602 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.78bae39 | 2026-08-23 | 78bae39 | 35,328 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260823.8e2698b | 2026-08-23 | 8e2698b | 33,298 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 (36706 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
brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4rvxucjxjudg5kgw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/researching-prior-art GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/16e0955fb90702172666adf9864cfc87a7e8b3bffe6f92f5d02341770ebca2b6
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