academic-research SKILL.md skillA
academic-research from sandbaseai/sandbase-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-research@git:20260908.495293dPins git:20260908.495293d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sandbaseai/sandbase-skills
- Path
research/academic-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260908.495293d, committed Sep 8, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 2,348 bytes
- Repository stars
- 206
- License
- Apache-2.0
Search academic papers, scholarly articles, and research publications through SandBase. Use when asked for literature review, academic citations, scholarly research, paper discovery, or scientific evidence gathering.
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
# Academic Research Academic paper search and research synthesis through SandBase. Find scholarly articles, search across academic databases, and get AI-powered explanations of findings. Read [the API map](references/sandbase-api-map.md) before selecting a capability. ## Call SandBase capabilities Use the capability identifiers below as discovery hints, not MCP tool names. Find the matching endpoint with `sandbase_discover(q: "<provider and capability>")`; use its returned `name` in `sandbase_inspect(name: "<returned name>")`. Read `inputSchema`, pricing, and `execute_as`, then call `sandbase_run` using `execute_as.arguments.name` and schema-defined `arguments`. If a `run_id` is returned, poll `sandbase_run_get(run_id: "<returned run_id>")` within the task budget until `completed` or `failed`; report pending or failed runs without resubmitting them automatically. ## Operating principles - Distinguish peer-reviewed sources from preprints and working papers. - Cite papers with title, authors, year, and source. - Use academic search for evidence-based claims; use web search for current context. - Note publication recency — older papers may not reflect current consensus. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-research@sha256:1a9fdd4cc4d6b8e5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.495293d, 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_emog47nd2lmhfkcx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026, about one every 26 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260908.495293d latest | 2026-09-08 | 495293d | 2,348 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.23df50e | 2026-08-13 | 23df50e | 1,943 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 (2348 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
sandbaseai/sandbase-skills · 206 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_emog47nd2lmhfkcx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sandbaseai/sandbase-skills/academic-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1a9fdd4cc4d6b8e5e0c6aa72c7c51447054e88df8f5d205e9a1073da7d0573db
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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