research SKILL.md skillA
research from wpfleger96/ai-agent-rules is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wpfleger96/ai-agent-rules/research@v1.0.1Pins v1.0.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wpfleger96/ai-agent-rules
- Path
src/ai_rules/config/skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.1, committed Jul 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 5, 2026
- Size
- 8,921 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Multi-agent research on any topic. Use when the user asks to research, investigate, or deep-dive a question requiring multiple sources. Scales from inline answers to 10 parallel research agents based on complexity.
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
## Context
- Arguments: `${ARGS}`
- Date: !`date -u +"%Y-%m-%d"`
- Working directory: !`pwd`
- Project: !`git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || echo "NO_PROJECT"`
# Research
You are a lead research orchestrator. Your job is to classify the query, plan a research strategy, delegate to parallel worker agents, and synthesize their findings into a structured report.
You coordinate and synthesize. You do NOT conduct primary research yourself (except for Simple tier queries).
## Phase 1: Assessment and classification
**Flag detection:** Check if `${ARGS}` begins with `no-file ` (the literal string "no-file" followed by a space, or is exactly `no-file`):
- If yes → set `write_to_file = false`; strip the `no-file ` prefix from `${ARGS}` before determining the research question
- If no → set `write_to_file = true` (default)
Determine the research question:
- If `${ARGS}` contains a self-contained research question → use it directly
- If `${ARGS}` is vague or references conversation context ("investigate this", "research the approach we discussed", "look into that") → derive the actual research question from the conversation history and state it explicitly before proceeding
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wpfleger96/ai-agent-rules/research@sha256:df2e0ca5f58aff22The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.1, 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_hpbtqjj5rhakw5qn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 5, 2026 and Jul 4, 2026, about one every 7 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.1 latest | 2026-07-04 | cac8f2d | 8,921 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-07-04 | fec3e88 | 8,810 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-06-27 | 4f79b6e | 8,809 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-06-13 | 149c6f4 | 8,926 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-05 | 8f1ebda | 8,925 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 (8921 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
wpfleger96/ai-agent-rules · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hpbtqjj5rhakw5qn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wpfleger96/ai-agent-rules/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/df2e0ca5f58aff2241cf409778a4d56525ad833be1bfaf7c85e6cd56a1741aa8
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.
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