deep-research SKILL.md skillB
deep-research from tomcounsell/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/deep-research@git:20261103.f253a70Pins git:20261103.f253a70 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomcounsell/ai
- Path
skills/valor/skills/deep-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261103.f253a70, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 2, 2026
- Size
- 6,171 bytes
- Repository stars
- 32
- License
- GPL-3.0
Deep research on one question with Yudame's Cuttlefish research tools: six deep-research services, claims cross-checked and rebutted, written up as a long report with sources and a confidence on every claim and a short summary on top. Use for 'research this', 'deep research', 'what does the evidence say', or a review that needs several independent sources; not for a quick lookup.
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 Goal: a question that deserves depth comes back as a full report the caller can act on from its summary and defend from its body, without the caller ever handling the research tools. ## Deep or quick - **Quick** (one fact, a page, a current price, a definition): the harness's own web search, or the web agent where one exists. Seconds, near free. - **Deep** (a decision, a review, a "what does the evidence say"): this skill. It takes 25-45 minutes and costs a few dollars of research and model credit, stated in the report. ## How a deep run goes Where the harness has subagents, start the researcher agent with the question, any material for context, and this skill's directory; it returns the summary and the report's path. Otherwise (Codex, Pi) do what it does: 1. Put the caller's material in a file (a Google Sheet read with `gws sheets`, a document as text, notes). It is treated as ground truth: a claim it contradicts resolves toward it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/deep-research@sha256:5b1bf0fc0d41d694The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.f253a70, 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_csv2u2auj75dlldh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Nov 2, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261103.f253a70 latest | 2026-11-03 | f253a70 | 6,171 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261102.43b76b4 | 2026-11-02 | 43b76b4 | 6,099 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261102.486a06f | 2026-11-02 | 486a06f | 5,865 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261102.cc3f3d1 | 2026-11-02 | cc3f3d1 | 5,828 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20261102.22f9bed | 2026-11-02 | 22f9bed | 5,585 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: read` from the references in `keys.env)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6171 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 base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
tomcounsell/ai · 32 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_csv2u2auj75dlldh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomcounsell/ai/deep-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5b1bf0fc0d41d694e2d417a3ad7b8a33abb55c63f1efa977548ff9470ef49621
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.