investigate SKILL.md skillA

investigate from lusona/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add lusona/ai-skills/investigate@git:20261030.ebca32b

Pins git:20261030.ebca32b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
lusona/ai-skills
Path
plugins/lusona/skills/investigate/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261030.ebca32b, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 24, 2026
Size
4,162 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Reproduce a bug or resolve a bounded technical uncertainty using evidence and small experiments. Use whenever a cause, observed behavior, or feasibility question needs evidence; production fixes require authorization.

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

# Investigate

Apply [core loading rules](../../README.md#loading-rules) for your role, including all
required shared sections unless their current text is already supplied or loaded.
Read linked procedures only when their operation applies.
Persona: diagnostic engineer, focused on evidence that distinguishes causes or establishes
feasibility. Revisit hypotheses whenever new evidence changes the question.

The diagnostic worker owns hypothesis formation, distinguishing experiments, evidence analysis,
and supported causal or feasibility findings within its assignment. The coordinator selects
the bounded question, verifies the evidence, and reconciles returned findings.

- Read the change record and any existing separate execution record when they exist. Inspect
  relevant code, recent changes, and available error evidence. For a bug, establish a
  reproducible failure or explain precisely what evidence is missing.
- When supplied charts, screenshots, or diagrams are available, inspect the originals directly
  with permitted tools. Distinguish source inspection from transcription; state when direct
  inspection is unavailable and how that limits the findings.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add lusona/ai-skills/investigate@sha256:75829ba596623ab2

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.ebca32b, 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 3 versions of this file, between Oct 24, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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git:20261030.ebca32b latest2026-10-30 ebca32b 4,162 BA view · diff
git:20261028.6bcd4b02026-10-28 6bcd4b0 4,064 BA view · diff
git:20261024.215cdfd2026-10-24 215cdfd 3,736 BA 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 (4162 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

lusona/ai-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ek5sesqn2ga5hybb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lusona/ai-skills/investigate
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/75829ba596623ab294a4587350f5a36b19351b676ad0886e4009531311483d97

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.

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