research:prior-art SKILL.md skillA
research:prior-art from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bendrucker/claude/research:prior-art@git:20260724.2913803Pins git:20260724.2913803 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bendrucker/claude
- Path
plugins/research/skills/prior-art/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260724.2913803, committed Jul 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 8, 2026
- Size
- 2,512 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Research existing solutions when exploring a new problem space. Use when the user mentions "prior art", "existing solutions", "what libraries exist for", or wants to understand the landscape before building.
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 prior art for: $ARGUMENTS ## Process ### Search Identify relevant sources based on context: - **GitHub**: Search for repositories matching the problem space - **Package registries**: npm, PyPI, crates.io, pkg.go.dev—infer from current project or query - **Web search**: For broader landscape understanding Run searches in parallel. Infer the ecosystem from: 1. Current project's language/framework (if present) 2. Query terms (e.g., "React hook for X" implies npm) 3. Ask only if genuinely ambiguous ### Investigation Start with 2-3 most promising projects: 1. Read README and high-level docs to assess relevance 2. Examine code only when relevance is confirmed AND implementation details matter 3. Dispatch parallel `Agent` calls per project, with explicit focus areas If results don't satisfy the query, expand to more projects. **Agent dispatch example:** ``` Investigate [project] for prior art on [topic]: - How does it approach [specific aspect]? - What tradeoffs does it make? - What can we learn for our use case? ``` ### Synthesis Gather findings and produce a recommendation: - Identify common patterns across solutions - Note meaningful variations in approach …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bendrucker/claude/research:prior-art@sha256:a38dcd139b6cbd5cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260724.2913803, 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 5 versions of this file, between Feb 8, 2026 and Jul 24, 2026, about one every 42 days.
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| git:20260724.2913803 latest | 2026-07-24 | 2913803 | 2,512 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260708.d7ba4ab | 2026-07-08 | d7ba4ab | 2,510 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260615.1ec44ee | 2026-06-15 | 1ec44ee | 2,479 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260606.c07e2c7 | 2026-06-06 | c07e2c7 | 2,500 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260208.23371e3 | 2026-02-08 | 23371e3 | 2,477 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 (2512 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
bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aznsgno5hnby4aq2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/research:prior-art GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a38dcd139b6cbd5ca897e452b391e356e40d62bcff45360ea5be84dbad7241f2
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