web-research SKILL.md skillA
web-research from protolabsai/protoagent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/web-research@git:20260614.0806170Pins git:20260614.0806170 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- protolabsai/protoagent
- Path
config/skills/web-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260614.0806170, committed Jun 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 29, 2026
- Size
- 2,780 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Use this whenever the user asks you to research a topic, find the current state of something, compare options, or gather background from the web — e.g. "what's the latest on X", "find the best approach to Y", "compare these three tools". Drives a scope → gather → gap-check → synthesize loop.
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
# Web Research A disciplined pipeline for turning an open question into a tight, sourced answer. ## Scale to the ask A fact lookup is one angle, one pass. "Compare X" is 3-5 dimensions. "Comprehensive analysis of X" is 5-8 dimensions and more rounds. Don't over-research a lookup or under-serve a survey. ## 1. Scope Break the question into a few **orthogonal dimensions** — focused sub-topics that together cover it (e.g. "Rust vs Go" → perf · memory · concurrency · ecosystem · adoption). A narrow question is one dimension; don't invent angles. When dimensions are independent, fan them out as parallel `task` calls (or one `task_batch`) instead of researching them serially. ## 2. Gather (per dimension) - **Reuse first** — `memory_recall` what's already known; don't re-derive it. - **Search wide, then deep** — `web_search` the dimension; for technical or contested topics run a second angle (parent topic, or community/code sources like Reddit/HN/GitHub/SO) so you don't trust one lens. Listicles are leads, not authority; prefer primary + recent. - **Read selectively** — `fetch_url` the 2-4 best hits per dimension; read …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add protolabsai/protoagent/web-research@sha256:8d942161f054fff6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260614.0806170, 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 4 versions of this file, between May 29, 2026 and Jun 14, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260614.0806170 latest | 2026-06-14 | 0806170 | 2,780 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260614.f625805 | 2026-06-14 | f625805 | 2,631 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260601.89c8188 | 2026-06-01 | 89c8188 | 2,597 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260529.d0359ed | 2026-05-29 | d0359ed | 1,306 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 (2780 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
protolabsai/protoagent · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_64msichufabemxzy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=protolabsai/protoagent/web-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8d942161f054fff6fc5a64b441ad8f961fe8932e90732391c2b077f6827751f3
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