research-ops SKILL.md skillA
research-ops from ericrisco/rsc-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/research-ops@git:20260729.39d7e83Pins git:20260729.39d7e83 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericrisco/rsc-harness
- Path
skills/research-ops/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260729.39d7e83, committed Jul 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 2, 2026
- Size
- 11,562 bytes
- Repository stars
- 236
- License
- MIT
Use when someone hands you an open question whose answer must survive scrutiny — a tech choice, a regulation, a what-is-actually-true-about-X — with every non-obvious claim dated and sourced, source disagreements surfaced rather than averaged away, and a cited memo as the deliverable. Also for refreshing a stale research memo. NOT sizing a market with TAM/SAM/SOM (that is `market-research`), NOT a standing cadence watch on named rivals (that is `competitor-watch`).
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-ops — the deep-research operating procedure You are the **method, not the topic**. Someone hands you "go find out about X" and you hand back a memo where every load-bearing claim traces to a source, a date, and a confidence tier — a document that survives someone reading it adversarially. The topic changes every time; the procedure does not. Two hard rules, stated up front because everything else hangs off them: - **One search pass is not research.** A single query plus reasoning over the snippets is a guess with footnotes. Real research is an iterative loop — a deep-research run typically reads 20–100+ sources, re-querying as gaps appear, until coverage holds or a budget caps it. - **An unsourced claim is not a finding.** If you can't attach a source and a date, it's an assumption — label it as one or cut it. Human review catches AI errors in roughly 15–20% of research reports, so structure the output so a reviewer can check each claim, never so they have to trust it. ## The loop Research is an ordered loop, not a lookup. Run it in this order; each step has a reason. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericrisco/rsc-harness/research-ops@sha256:6005a5cbc971dfe4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.39d7e83, 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 2 versions of this file, between Jun 2, 2026 and Jul 29, 2026, about one every 57 days.
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| git:20260729.39d7e83 latest | 2026-07-29 | 39d7e83 | 11,562 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260602.99b4be1 | 2026-06-02 | 99b4be1 | 11,949 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 (11562 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
ericrisco/rsc-harness · 236 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6kd4v22jjwztqvon GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericrisco/rsc-harness/research-ops GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6005a5cbc971dfe4d9b85def2f2b857f40ba7e270df4f9ba0f80f10d1b847398
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.
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