topic-research SKILL.md skillA
topic-research from naveedharri/benai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/topic-research@git:20260720.71f54edPins git:20260720.71f54ed in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naveedharri/benai-skills
- Path
plugins/benai-marketing/skills/topic-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.71f54ed, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 10,456 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
Research any topic end to end and get back a fact-checked, branded HTML report plus an agent-readable markdown brief. Use when the user wants to research a topic, do a deep dive, build a research report or briefing, gather evidence before writing a piece of content, understand 'what does the research say / what are people saying about X', or study a subject across papers, forums, YouTube, and vendor/web sources. Fans out parallel sub-agents (one per source type), verifies every hard claim with…
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
# Topic Research Turns a topic into a rigorous, sourced, fact-checked report. Two artifacts come out every time: a **markdown brief** (agent-readable, the handoff to a content-writer skill) and a **branded HTML report** (human-facing, deployable). The workflow is: interview the user so the research is targeted, fan out parallel research sub-agents across source types, verify every hard claim, synthesize to markdown, render to HTML, deploy. > [!important] The two rules that make this good > 1. **Targeted, not generic.** The Phase 0 Q&A shapes every sub-agent. Research aimed at a purpose beats a topic dump every time. > 2. **Verify before you publish.** No hard number reaches the report without a fact-check verdict and a caveat. Fact and opinion stay visibly separate. --- ## Phase 0: Targeted Q&A + capability probe Do both before any research runs. Ask conversationally, one thing at a time, adapting to answers. ### A. Targeted Q&A (this shapes the whole run) 1. **Topic**, and what they already believe or suspect about it. …
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How to install
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/topic-research@sha256:3259a818f8c76639The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.71f54ed, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 20, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
naveedharri/benai-skills · 78 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_f4tzf27s7cgh6agp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naveedharri/benai-skills/topic-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3259a818f8c7663923a267acfb99bc0dea473b5e7b5a25701ebe33c39e0a418d
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