ccc-research SKILL.md skillA

ccc-research from kevinzai/commander is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add kevinzai/commander/ccc-research@git:20261025.7eae921

Pins git:20261025.7eae921 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: kevinzai/commander
Path: commander/cowork-plugin/skills/ccc-research/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20261025.7eae921, committed Oct 25, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 1, 2026
Size: 6,111 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Cited multi-source research before building: compare options, find prior art, define a spec, or summarize large docs or codebases.

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

# /ccc-research — research, routed

**CC Commander** · /ccc-research · a cited answer, a comparison or a spec before any code is written.

Research sub-skills (`deep-research`, `spec-interview`, `cross-model-review`, `literature-review`, `competitive-analysis`, `data-ingestion`, `trend-analysis`, `large-context`) ship with the Commander CLI toolkit. Invoke one with the Skill tool when it is listed in this session; otherwise apply the method in [references/routing.md](references/routing.md). The user's selected model is preserved.

Codex: ask pickers as plain-text questions, run parallel lanes as separate `codex exec` calls, and write the report to a file.

## When to use / when not to

- Use before a non-trivial build, for "which library/tool/vendor", "what are the trends in X", "interview me for a spec", "review this decision from several angles", or an input too large to read in one pass.
- Use `/ccc-brainstorm` for open-ended ideation, `/ccc-debate` for a structured for/against verdict on one decision, `/ccc-plan` once the spec exists, `/ccc-data` for data pipelines and analytics.

## What happens

### 1. Route by intent, or ask
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add kevinzai/commander/ccc-research@sha256:700537ab36360247

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.7eae921, 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_bk7yn4w455gn2vh4.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bk7yn4w455gn2vh4)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 1, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 21 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261025.7eae921 latest	2026-10-25	7eae921	6,111 B	A	view · diff
git:20261025.3b88727	2026-10-25	3b88727	6,124 B	A	view · diff
git:20261023.ee0d644	2026-10-23	ee0d644	6,294 B	A	view · diff
git:20261013.fbe187d	2026-10-13	fbe187d	6,293 B	A	view · diff
git:20260801.0de5ac7	2026-08-01	0de5ac7	3,385 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 (6111 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

kevinzai/commander · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bk7yn4w455gn2vh4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kevinzai/commander/ccc-research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/700537ab3636024744816716131bfa70f438b2489dba285341e2a84774d10930

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.

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