research-direction-selector SKILL.md skillA

research-direction-selector from kongtou20070406/research-direction-selector is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add kongtou20070406/research-direction-selector/research-direction-selector@v6.0.0-rc.1

Pins v6.0.0-rc.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
kongtou20070406/research-direction-selector
Path
SKILL.md
Versions recorded
29
Latest version
v6.0.0-rc.1, committed Oct 12, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 30, 2026
Size
21,000 bytes
Repository stars
7
License
Apache-2.0

Collaborate with researchers through proactive discussion and choose or audit theoretical or empirical next steps using scoped evidence, budgets and authorized execution. Supports proof obligations, experiment comparisons, native research records and read-only hypergraph pages with readable explanations; domain-specific solvers and scientific evidence are still required.

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 Direction Selector

Agent pseudocode; not an executable language or a new kernel contract.

Pass the intended `--root` for usage logging; explicit `RDS_USAGE_DB` is authoritative.
Automatic fallback uses `<project_root>/.rds/usage/cli-usage.sqlite3` when default
user-state logging is unavailable. Logging failure preserves the command result.
For degraded logging or configuration, read [usage logging](docs/cli-usage.md).

```text
DISCOVER: name + description
ON applicable research request:
    LOAD this SKILL.md
    skill_dir := directory containing this file
    project_root := user's research project
    CLI := python -B "<skill_dir>/scripts/rds_cli.py" --root "<project_root>"
    RESOLVE bundled scripts/references/examples relative to skill_dir
    RESOLVE user inputs explicitly; NEVER create .rds in installation/plugin cache
    LOAD supporting resources only when the current decision needs them

    IF user asks to show/open a hypergraph or explain its nodes:
        READ references/skill-routes/display.md before export; use actual project_root or explicit map
        KEEP graph display read-only; do not run research or change evidence status
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add kongtou20070406/research-direction-selector/research-direction-selector@sha256:2e854ef2133fea9d

The line at the top of this page pins the label v6.0.0-rc.1, 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 29 versions of this file, between Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, more than one a day.

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v6.0.0-rc.1 latest2026-10-12 2ca920f 21,000 BA view · diff
v6.0.0-rc.12026-10-12 ed5da48 20,558 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.22026-10-12 8d3d240 20,558 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.22026-10-11 6b90d53 20,471 BA view · diff
v6.0.0-rc.12026-10-11 935ed5f 24,288 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.22026-10-10 37acdce 24,288 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.22026-10-10 ebac8d5 16,003 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.22026-10-09 6b366d0 23,660 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.22026-10-09 a0b54a6 21,278 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.22026-10-09 5ab5b56 20,182 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.12026-10-08 d0703c4 14,968 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.12026-10-08 8a53de0 14,507 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.12026-10-08 853ce73 14,290 BA view · diff
v5.9.0-rc.12026-10-06 9f174a8 12,519 BA view · diff
v5.8.02026-10-05 14b63e2 12,514 BA view · diff
v5.8.02026-10-05 fcd12fe 12,110 BA view · diff
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v5.8.02026-10-04 41af612 9,655 BA view · diff
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v5.8.02026-10-03 eda6b57 6,792 BA view · diff
v5.8.02026-10-02 b393669 6,152 BA view · diff
v5.6.0-rc.22026-10-01 1195356 5,545 BA view · diff
v5.6.0-rc.22026-10-01 5c98ff5 5,825 BA view · diff
v5.6.0-rc.22026-09-30 f685404 22,835 BA view · diff
v5.6.0-rc.12026-09-30 f53fdfc 22,835 BA view · diff
v5.5.0-rc.22026-09-30 b0689fd 21,627 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 (21000 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

kongtou20070406/research-direction-selector · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ekfwasf6ah5eoa2p
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kongtou20070406/research-direction-selector/research-direction-selector
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2e854ef2133fea9dd420f87802f1487e7fdcf0c9d95ba2510c5ff5dd646b73db

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