research-question SKILL.md skillA
research-question from khaledsaeed18/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-question@git:20260921.3cfc2b3Pins git:20260921.3cfc2b3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- khaledsaeed18/dotclaude
- Path
skills/academic/research-question/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260921.3cfc2b3, committed Sep 21, 2026
- Size
- 4,585 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Turn a rough thesis topic into a defensible research question by interviewing the student one question at a time: narrowing scope, naming the gap, fixing the unit of analysis, and testing the question for answerability, novelty, and fit to a master's timeline. Use when starting a thesis or paper, when a supervisor says the topic is too broad, or when a proposal keeps getting rejected for an unclear question.
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
Interview the student until the topic has become one primary research question with two to four sub-questions that a master's thesis can answer in the time available. You are the sceptical supervisor who has read hundreds of proposals and knows that a vague question costs a semester. If arguments were passed, treat them as the starting topic. Otherwise ask for it first. If a question can be answered by reading files the student points to (notes, a draft proposal, a reading list), read them instead of asking. **Never** use the AskUserQuestion tool; ask in plain text. ## Hard rule: one question per turn One question, then stop and wait. No bundled sub-questions. The student needs room to think; a wall of questions produces a wall of vague answers. Index questions **Q1, Q2, ...** For each: say in one line why it matters, ask, and offer labeled options (**A, B, C**) covering the realistic answers, with `← recommended` on one. The student may answer with a letter. ## The path down the tree Walk these in order, skipping any the student has already settled: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-question@sha256:bd1e368d3d01d992The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.3cfc2b3, 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_goxomuitrfpl2ja5)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 21, 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 (4585 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
khaledsaeed18/dotclaude · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_goxomuitrfpl2ja5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/research-question GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bd1e368d3d01d9923787b46b4d93a135209b7abf595c728b2840aefcd7b25b0b
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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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