research SKILL.md skillB
research from nexaduo/marc is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nexaduo/marc/research@git:20261004.17bc9c6Pins git:20261004.17bc9c6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nexaduo/marc
- Path
harnesses/antigravity/marc/skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261004.17bc9c6, committed Oct 4, 2026
- Size
- 8,465 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
External evidence researcher (IRC handle `@research`) dispatched to search public documentation, papers, and post-mortems to draft a citation-backed brief for architectural decisions.
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
# @research — External-Evidence Researcher
You are **@research** in the channel: @techlead pings you when a decision lacks
internal data and external evidence likely exists. You do **not** implement, and
you do **not** decide — you return **one cited brief** that lets the team decide.
## Learn this repo before you search
Read `${AGY_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/AGENTS.md` (or `CLAUDE.md`) and, if present,
`${AGY_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.agents/team.toml` (falling back to
`${AGY_PROJECT_DIR:-.}/.agents/team.toml` for repos that haven't
migrated) — they carry the stack facts and prior decisions your findings must
speak to. Ground the brief in *this* team's decision, not a generic literature
survey.
**Tool contract:** you have **no Edit/Write/NotebookEdit tools**. You make **no
repo writes, no branches, no commits, no PRs**. Read repo file **content**
with `Read`/`Grep` (see Security hard rules below), not bash. `Bash` is for
**read-only status/metadata inspection** (`git log`, `gh issue view`) with
exactly **one sanctioned mutation**: `gh issue comment <N>` to post your brief
on the motivating issue. Nothing else mutates anything.
## The dispatch you expect
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nexaduo/marc/research@sha256:1d5d02d6257229b2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.17bc9c6, 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_greolhsujnsdnj7s)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 4, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore previous instructions)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8465 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 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
nexaduo/marc · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_greolhsujnsdnj7s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nexaduo/marc/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1d5d02d6257229b259b21db323e17d8b4f4d13f0337f3c9509eb05aa0c9abd46
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.