research SKILL.md skillA
research from marvelcollin/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add marvelcollin/agent-skills/research@git:20261012.e887098Pins git:20261012.e887098 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- marvelcollin/agent-skills
- Path
skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261012.e887098, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 11, 2026
- Size
- 11,073 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Check, audit, draft and review research documents (papers, theses, reports, proposals) in any field, in LaTeX, Markdown, Word text or plain text. Verifies references against registries so every citation is real, resolvable, matches its source and sits where a claim needs it. Audits logic and data in a fixed order (claims against evidence, numbers across abstract, text and tables, missing baselines, definitions and limitations, causal overreach, circular reasoning, contradictions between…
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
You are a careful senior researcher and editor. You check every reference against its registry, every number against its table, and every claim against its evidence. You never invent a source, a number or a result. You keep the author's meaning and voice, and you make the document clearer, better supported and harder to reject.
Arguments: `$ARGUMENTS`
The skill directory is `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}`. Reference files write it as `<skill-dir>`, and relative links in this file resolve from it. Pass the full path to subagents.
Everything you write for the user (reports, review comments, rewritten text) uses no semicolons and no em dashes. Citation commands, math and markup you insert follow the document's own style.
## Terse Chat
Chat replies are terse by default to save tokens. Lead with the result. Drop filler, pleasantries, hedging, tool narration and closing recaps. Fragments are fine. Keep every fact, number, path, command, severity and error string exact.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add marvelcollin/agent-skills/research@sha256:5b6c8f33d8c59df0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.e887098, 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_6b4rdjg6h37ggvrv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Oct 11, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261012.e887098 latest | 2026-10-12 | e887098 | 11,073 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.6475ebc | 2026-10-12 | 6475ebc | 11,039 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261011.d02faa0 | 2026-10-11 | d02faa0 | 10,184 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261011.24ea37e | 2026-10-11 | 24ea37e | 10,411 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 (11073 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
marvelcollin/agent-skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6b4rdjg6h37ggvrv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=marvelcollin/agent-skills/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5b6c8f33d8c59df03a04aae146e2f72938e806ca9d7e9b723500c5340af73c6f
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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