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matching-references from chrisgagne/grounded-forge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
Identifies sources in the corpus that match a query topic, situation, or concept. Returns a list with one-line justifications for each candidate, with paths to the relevant distillations.
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What the file says
# Matching References
Identifies which sources in the corpus address a given query topic, situation, or concept. The skill returns a list of candidate sources with one-line justifications, naming the distillation(s) that project each source onto the task axes the app ships.
Distillations are the source-grounded product. The reference tier (light + deep) lives at corpus level as the audit-of-record but does not travel with the compiled app, so this skill returns distillation paths rather than reference paths.
**Path convention.** Every path in this skill is written from the app's perspective: `./distillations/{task}/{slug}-{task}.md`, `./concept-index.json`, `./slug-table.json`. The distillations directory and the runtime JSON indexes sit at the app root.
## Retrieval order
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.6b9bca3, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aqonzbpnhku2fw6m
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chrisgagne/grounded-forge/matching-references
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0c7701bbd472eb0ecde7fbda1b198a59779379a174bc22c81567b4b9b29d1448
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