develop-method-to-sota SKILL.md skillA
develop-method-to-sota from gxcaesar/open-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add gxcaesar/open-research-skills/develop-method-to-sota@git:20260909.71c1b78Pins git:20260909.71c1b78 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- gxcaesar/open-research-skills
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skills/develop-method-to-sota/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260909.71c1b78, committed Sep 9, 2026
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- 63
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a method is not yet beating its baseline and the next change has to be chosen, including improving a model, reaching state of the art, deciding which component to add next, measuring headroom before building, designing an ablation control that can void a component, reading error by slice instead of one aggregate, or deciding whether to keep iterating or stop. Use during exploratory development on a development split, before any confirmatory run is frozen.
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
# Develop a Method to State of the Art Turn a validated pilot into a method worth freezing. The loop is: measure what is available to win before building anything, read the error where it actually lives, add one component at a time with a mechanism hypothesis and a control that could void it, and stop for a stated reason rather than from fatigue. This skill governs the exploratory phase only. Iterating after a confirmatory run is frozen is an unblinding event, not development. ## Select one mode | Mode | Responsibility | Read first | |---|---|---| | `headroom-measure` | Establish the ceiling and the measured noise floor before designing anything | `references/headroom-and-noise-floor.md` | | `error-slices` | Locate the loss by stratum rather than in one aggregate number | `references/error-slices.md` | | `single-component` | Design, implement and test one component with a control that can void it | `references/component-iteration.md` | | `exit-decision` | Decide freeze, continue, or return to the charter, and name which exit applies | `references/exit-decisions.md` | Run `headroom-measure` first on any task the loop has not yet measured. A component …
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How to install
mdr add gxcaesar/open-research-skills/develop-method-to-sota@sha256:f75488df7119965eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260909.71c1b78, 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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Source
gxcaesar/open-research-skills · 63 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch main
API
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