deep-research SKILL.md skillA

deep-research from moonlight-lupin/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/deep-research@v1.9.2

Pins v1.9.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
moonlight-lupin/agent-skills
Path
research/deep-research/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
13
Latest version
v1.9.2, committed Oct 17, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 8, 2026
Size
28,879 bytes
Repository stars
119
License
MIT

Use when the user asks for "deep research", a "research report on", a "comprehensive analysis of", to "look into X in depth", to "write a report on X", or any question needing multi-source synthesis beyond a single search — an autonomous multi-step deep research engine implementing an iterative Think → Search → Extract → Synthesize → Stop loop. The LLM drives every decision: what to search, what's relevant, what's missing, and when to stop. Produces a cited, magazine-quality report with inline…

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

# Deep Research — Iterative Research Engine

An autonomous, multi-step research engine that performs exhaustive information
gathering and synthesis. Unlike a single `web_search`, this skill implements an
iterative loop where the agent plans, searches, extracts, synthesizes, and
decides when to stop — producing a cited report with structured evidence,
source quality tiers, and explicit gaps/contradictions sections.

See `references/structured-evidence-format.md` for the evidence.json layer and
`references/docsgpt-concepts.md` for adaptive-depth concept mapping.

## When to use

- User asks for "deep research", "research report", "comprehensive analysis"
- User wants a written report on a topic (not just a quick answer)
- Question requires multi-source synthesis with citations
- User says "look into X in depth" or "write a report on X"

## When NOT to use

- **Entity vetting/dossiers** → use `entity-research` (has sanctions screening, structured lenses)
- **Recurring news digests** → use `news-monitoring` (has cron, dedup, multi-language)
- **Source-grounded Q&A from collected sources** → use `notebooklm-mode` (has vault + RAG)
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/deep-research@sha256:fec218ff797ddfd7

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.9.2, 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 13 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 8 days.

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Source

GitHub

moonlight-lupin/agent-skills · 119 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_haygeyvbxs6xomqv
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=moonlight-lupin/agent-skills/deep-research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fec218ff797ddfd7d5ca5b1c7e446beaeadc53b535a8e7f9bd11ac213ddf7b33

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