meta-methodology-research-methodology SKILL.md skillA
meta-methodology-research-methodology from agents-inc/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add agents-inc/skills/meta-methodology-research-methodology@git:20261016.a8588faPins git:20261016.a8588fa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- agents-inc/skills
- Path
src/skills/meta-methodology-research-methodology/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261016.a8588fa, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 23, 2026
- Size
- 10,912 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Investigation flow (Glob -> Grep -> Read), evidence-based research with file:line references, structured output format for AI consumption. Use for pattern discovery, implementation research, and codebase investigation.
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
# Research Methodology > **Quick Guide:** Research hands another agent findings it can act on without repeating the search. Locate files by name, narrow by content, then read the files that carry the answer; every claim names the file, line range and symbol it came from, and a search that found nothing is reported together with the search. Two tool facts change what a result means. A search that returns nothing is not proof of absence: the Grep tool skips gitignored files, Glob's list is capped, and a long file's Read can come back partial. And on macOS, Linux and WSL, Claude Code leaves the Glob and Grep tools out of the default tool set, so the same steps run through `find` and `grep` in the shell. **Detailed Resources:** - [examples/core.md](examples/core.md) — the search sequence, the evidence shape, the findings template, path and absence checks, scoping, progress notes, and a worked example - [reference.md](reference.md) — what each search tool skips and where it truncates, which tools a session has, and the pre-report checklist --- ## Which path applies …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add agents-inc/skills/meta-methodology-research-methodology@sha256:0ae15e9e65f9935cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.a8588fa, 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_5pxecaxyg5zhzooe)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Mar 23, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 104 days.
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| git:20261016.a8588fa latest | 2026-10-16 | a8588fa | 10,912 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260328.3507ecf | 2026-03-28 | 3507ecf | 8,927 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260323.dd65175 | 2026-03-23 | dd65175 | 9,425 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 (10912 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
agents-inc/skills · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5pxecaxyg5zhzooe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agents-inc/skills/meta-methodology-research-methodology GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0ae15e9e65f9935cca7c2c0101230e5d5093eb55d690aabda8f498ca9085d9c5
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