content-research-and-sourcing SKILL.md skillA
content-research-and-sourcing from social-media-skills/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add social-media-skills/skills/content-research-and-sourcing@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- social-media-skills/skills
- Path
skills/content-research-and-sourcing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jul 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 8, 2026
- Size
- 8,325 bytes
- Repository stars
- 251
- License
- MIT
The research-and-sourcing craft — verify the substance of a piece before it publishes: trace stats to primary sources, kill zombie stats, catch AI-hallucinated citations, and attribute properly on social. Use when someone has a stat-heavy draft to make publish-ready, wants to check if a viral statistic is real, asks how to cite sources, used AI research output, or is making health/finance claims. Uses the FACTS framework. Reads brand-profile + the piece's format skill first. AI-supplied…
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
# content-research-and-sourcing The **verification craft** — find the load-bearing claims, ascend to the primary source, check freshness and context, test AI output hard, and show your sources. The agent verifies where it has search; the **human clicks where it doesn't**; verification happens **before scheduling**; **WoopSocial publishes**. (Craft skill — no tool file.) ## The POV: a post is a stack of claims wearing a voice — verify the stack 2026 made verification structural: generative search tools answered **over 60% of tested news-citation queries incorrectly** (CJR); fabricated references **surged ~12-fold since 2023** — 1 in 277 PubMed papers now carries one (Columbia/Lancet audit); a major consultancy shipped a report where **only 5 of 45 citations were accurate**; and Google's AI Overview cited an April Fool's satire as fact — citogenesis laundering errors into apparent consensus. Four disciplines follow. **(1) AI-supplied citations are guilty until verified — and a working link is not verification:** 29% of fabricated citations carry real DOIs resolving to *unrelated* …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add social-media-skills/skills/content-research-and-sourcing@sha256:09e20e9625e67da2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_bsa3quxet5yzzt3t)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Jul 18, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-07-18 | 5222f27 | 8,325 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-16 | 2e54555 | 9,119 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-08 | 28a59a8 | 9,103 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 (8325 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
social-media-skills/skills · 251 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bsa3quxet5yzzt3t GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=social-media-skills/skills/content-research-and-sourcing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/09e20e9625e67da25e4e9d3d3e970329281c81145123ddfda60eaac5c667476d
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.