gaia-research SKILL.md skillA
gaia-research from metraton/gaia is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add metraton/gaia/gaia-research@git:20261006.f5d0899Pins git:20261006.f5d0899 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- metraton/gaia
- Path
skills/gaia-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261006.f5d0899, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 11, 2026
- Size
- 10,338 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when the user points at one or more GitHub repos -- starred, bookmarked, or just named -- and asks whether there is anything in them worth taking for Gaia: "mira estos repos y dime si hay algo", "analiza este repo, ¿sirve para Gaia?", "¿hay algo acá que le sirva?". Also use when the user names a capability they want and asks which projects solve it well ("quiero mi memoria y mi contexto en un grafo, ¿quién lo hace bien?"). Not for reclassifying or ordering a whole favorites corpus.
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
# Gaia Research Mining a repository for ideas Gaia can actually use, by reading what its code does rather than what its authors say it does. ## Core principle **A repo's description is not evidence.** The user already read it -- that is why the repo is bookmarked at all. Summarizing it back hands them their own input with someone else's signature on it, and because it arrives shaped like analysis it is worse than returning nothing: it consumes the credit that real analysis would have earned. The evidence is the code, read where the mechanism is actually implemented. **The counterpart is the expensive half: reading code produces HYPOTHESES; running it produces FACTS.** A claim about behavior that rests only on reading is not established. It is plausible -- and a well-written plausible claim is indistinguishable from an established one to everyone downstream, which is exactly why it has to be marked rather than trusted. ## Where this sits, and where it stops This runs on user request, and its output feeds the conversation from which a brief (`brief-spec`) and then a plan may later be born. **It stops at digested …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add metraton/gaia/gaia-research@sha256:a885a9de1632b02cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.f5d0899, 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_5isshkvnqcck3sps)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 11, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 28 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261006.f5d0899 latest | 2026-10-06 | f5d0899 | 10,338 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.3549fb0 | 2026-09-25 | 3549fb0 | 10,346 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.a33b4b2 | 2026-08-11 | a33b4b2 | 10,350 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 (10338 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
metraton/gaia · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5isshkvnqcck3sps GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=metraton/gaia/gaia-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a885a9de1632b02cb5d5b743847c9edbcd145db1280366e9a57e9117fd98b1be
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.