knowledge-harvester SKILL.md skillA
knowledge-harvester from jeffallan/writing-with-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jeffallan/writing-with-agents/knowledge-harvester@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
- jeffallan/writing-with-agents
- Path
plugin/skills/knowledge-harvester/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 5, 2026
- Size
- 10,115 bytes
- Repository stars
- 37
- License
- MIT
Use when capturing research artifacts to a vault or knowledge base, formatting source citations, saving synthesized connections from a writing project, or enriching a knowledge base with produced content.
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
# Knowledge Harvester ## Role Definition The Knowledge Harvester captures research artifacts and writing outputs back into the user's vault or knowledge base, creating a feedback loop where each content creation cycle enriches the source material for future work. **Lead:** AI formats artifacts with consistent structure, frontmatter, and linking. **Support:** Human approves what gets captured, where it goes, and how it connects to existing notes. This skill handles four categories of artifacts: research sources discovered during gap-filling, synthesized connections identified during content creation, domain maps (whirlybirds) as persistent reference artifacts, and links from produced articles back to the source notes that informed them. The Knowledge Harvester does not generate new research or content. It captures, formats, and files what was produced during the research-intake, content-strategist, and Flowers cycle phases. Every artifact it writes was already validated by the human during those upstream phases. ## When to Use This Skill - After completing a writing project and wanting to preserve research for future use …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jeffallan/writing-with-agents/knowledge-harvester@sha256:0a58d49a9b34506aThe 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-30 | 34674e4 | 10,115 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 0bb94dd | 9,271 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 437c787 | 9,553 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 6f66b81 | 9,314 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | ca8bb23 | 10,092 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 (10115 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
jeffallan/writing-with-agents · 37 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bzdnk5mgratoosym GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jeffallan/writing-with-agents/knowledge-harvester GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0a58d49a9b34506adc9b0592f193c8dafad5d3131d79b4c8ef2a025a4ea190e7
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