desk-research-project-start SKILL.md skillA
desk-research-project-start from eugenelim/agent-ready-repo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/desk-research-project-start@git:20260918.8598e2ePins git:20260918.8598e2e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- eugenelim/agent-ready-repo
- Path
packs/desk-research/.apm/skills/desk-research-project-start/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260918.8598e2e, committed Sep 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 14,673 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- Apache-2.0
Start a stateful, multi-week research project — the lifecycle axis, orthogonal to the depth axis the `/research` skill carries. Triggers on explicit project-lifecycle phrasing — "start a research project", "set up a research project on X", "begin a sustained investigation", "open a research dossier" — never on a one-shot lookup. Scaffolds the three-layer project folder (overview.md + a raw sources/ layer + the later digest and synthesis), records the question and a possibly-empty working…
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
# /desk-research-project-start The entry point for **project mode** — a sustained, multi-week investigation that accumulates a corpus, as opposed to the one-shot episodic research the `/research` skill drives. Project mode is the **lifecycle axis**; depth (quick / standard / applied / deep) is the orthogonal axis and stays with `/research`. This skill scaffolds the project folder, records the question and a (possibly empty) working hypothesis, and sets the project to its first phase. It writes no findings — it sets up the place the rest of the lifecycle works in. ## Output rendering <!-- agentbundle:output-rendering:start --> Lead with the useful outcome or next action. Use warm, non-blaming language and everyday words. Define an unfamiliar term in a few plain words before naming it; keep proper names and exact technical terms intact. During tool work, do not narrate routine calls. Send an update only for safety, a blocker, a needed decision, a material scope change, a long wait, or an active host requirement. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/desk-research-project-start@sha256:ace632849cc710c0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.8598e2e, 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 6 versions of this file, between Jul 20, 2026 and Sep 18, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20260918.8598e2e latest | 2026-09-18 | 8598e2e | 14,673 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.fd59e28 | 2026-08-29 | fd59e28 | 14,717 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.8428185 | 2026-08-19 | 8428185 | 12,161 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260727.e7caac4 | 2026-07-27 | e7caac4 | 11,546 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.bd71ab9 | 2026-07-21 | bd71ab9 | 11,289 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260720.0f50a60 | 2026-07-20 | 0f50a60 | 11,212 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 (14673 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
eugenelim/agent-ready-repo · 28 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gocpynqmfp6qyvu2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/desk-research-project-start GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ace632849cc710c090f9410316bd85e1cba83c5b41d3a9ad09266fff149eadf9
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