investigation SKILL.md skillA
investigation from metraton/gaia is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add metraton/gaia/investigation@git:20261006.f5d0899Pins git:20261006.f5d0899 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- metraton/gaia
- Path
skills/investigation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261006.f5d0899, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 9, 2026
- Size
- 4,515 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when starting an investigation, analyzing existing code or infrastructure, or building findings before proposing changes.
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
# Investigation Investigate from cheapest authoritative context toward narrowly scoped live evidence. The purpose is both diagnosis and a reliable mutation forecast. ## Evidence ladder 1. Read the injected dispatch kernel -- `# Your Contract` (goal, role, `project` and its declared `workflow`, the `can_read` menu) and `# How the user works`. Do not re-derive facts it already supplies. 2. Pull what the goal needs from the substrate on demand -- none of it is preloaded, and a coordinate in the goal (a contract id, a memory slug, a brief) is an instruction to go read it. The verbs, their addressing, and the workspace rule that decides whether they resolve are in `agent-protocol/read-map.md`. Do not read Gaia's database directly. 3. Inspect the smallest relevant source files, tests, configuration, git diff, or runtime query. Prefer authoritative implementation over prose. Never search from the home directory (`~`) or from `/`: a search rooted there walks every workspace, cache and package store. Locate a binary or package with `gaia paths`, `which`, or its known path, and start a search at the smallest directory that can hold the answer. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add metraton/gaia/investigation@sha256:7d00011c2fc479d0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.f5d0899, 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_7mhk4y4vszv2nz7b)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Aug 9, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261006.f5d0899 latest | 2026-10-06 | f5d0899 | 4,515 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.ad0abaa | 2026-09-24 | ad0abaa | 4,487 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.c7f5a90 | 2026-08-20 | c7f5a90 | 5,317 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.771c75e | 2026-08-15 | 771c75e | 4,764 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.48f0ede | 2026-08-10 | 48f0ede | 4,672 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260810.b6e2d78 | 2026-08-10 | b6e2d78 | 4,474 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.877ca66 | 2026-08-09 | 877ca66 | 4,095 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 (4515 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
metraton/gaia · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7mhk4y4vszv2nz7b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=metraton/gaia/investigation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7d00011c2fc479d0fb0365e57edeade090523fdb8aed5f93f124a7d4692895e1
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.