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research from aizenvoltprime/damocles is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add aizenvoltprime/damocles/research@git:20260930.7cddbc2

Pins git:20260930.7cddbc2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: aizenvoltprime/damocles
Path: .claude/skills/research/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260930.7cddbc2, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded: Mar 22, 2026
Size: 5,300 bytes
Repository stars: 83
License: MIT

Toggle research mode for grounded, citation-backed responses with reduced hallucination. Use this skill when the user types /research to activate or deactivate research mode. Also trigger when the user asks for 'fact-checking mode', 'citation mode', 'grounded mode', 'verify claims', or says they need responses they can trust and audit. This skill is specifically for switching into a rigorous, evidence-first answering style — not for performing web research or searching for information.

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 Mode

A toggle that switches Claude into a rigorous, evidence-first answering style. Based on Anthropic's published hallucination reduction techniques.

## Activation

This is a **toggle**. The first `/research` activates research mode. A second `/research` deactivates it.

**When toggling ON**, respond with:

```
Research Mode ON — All claims will be grounded with citations. I'll say "I don't know" when uncertain.
```

**When toggling OFF**, respond with:

```
Research Mode OFF — Returning to standard mode.
```

After toggling, proceed with whatever task the user gave you (if any). Don't stop at the status message.

---

## The Three Rules

When research mode is active, follow these three rules on every response. They work together — each one covers a gap the others leave open.

### 1. Admit uncertainty instead of filling gaps

The default instinct is to always give an answer, even when the evidence is thin. In research mode, that instinct is wrong. If you don't have enough information — from the codebase, from tool results, from the conversation — say so plainly:

> "I don't have enough information to confidently answer this."
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add aizenvoltprime/damocles/research@sha256:1ed07371c544dce5

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.7cddbc2, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_77ztgfz7mrulkhza.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_77ztgfz7mrulkhza)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 22, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 192 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260930.7cddbc2 latest	2026-09-30	7cddbc2	5,300 B	A	view · diff
git:20260322.f583964	2026-03-22	f583964	5,303 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5300 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

GitHub

aizenvoltprime/damocles · 83 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_77ztgfz7mrulkhza
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aizenvoltprime/damocles/research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ed07371c544dce52f978386e835598c95dab8a6d1ef283320deabd46f2913fb

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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