web-research SKILL.md skillA
web-research from laude-institute/headlong is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add laude-institute/headlong/web-research@git:20260502.9b702aaPins git:20260502.9b702aa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- laude-institute/headlong
- Path
skills/web-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260502.9b702aa, committed May 2, 2026
- Size
- 1,451 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,269
- License
- Apache-2.0
Research topics using the web via curl. Use when the user asks to look something up, find current information, or research a topic online.
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
# web-research ## When to use User asks to look something up, find current information, research a topic, or answer a question that requires up-to-date knowledge beyond what you have in context. ## Common operations ### Fetch a web page ```bash curl -sL "https://example.com" | head -200 ``` ### Search via DuckDuckGo (HTML) ```bash query="your search terms" curl -sL "https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=$(printf '%s' "$query" | jq -sRr @uri)" \ | grep -oP 'href="https?://[^"]*"' | head -10 ``` ### Fetch and extract text from HTML ```bash # Strip HTML tags for readable text curl -sL "$url" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed '/^$/d' | head -100 ``` ### Fetch JSON APIs ```bash curl -s "https://api.example.com/endpoint" | jq '.results[]' ``` ### Download a file ```bash curl -sLO "https://example.com/file.txt" ``` ## Tips - Always use `-s` (silent) and `-L` (follow redirects) with curl - Pipe HTML through `sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'` for rough text extraction - Use `head` or `tail` to limit output — full web pages are huge - For JavaScript-heavy sites, raw curl won't render dynamic content - Rate-limit requests — don't hammer endpoints in tight loops …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add laude-institute/headlong/web-research@sha256:51cee33b3adda117The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260502.9b702aa, 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 May 2, 2026.
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 (1451 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
laude-institute/headlong · 1,269 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g5w7jj6qqkd56bsw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=laude-institute/headlong/web-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51cee33b3adda117032855ca4243a322e3302be1d915f132a5817f0eef188352
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