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spec-research from kamioj/spec-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add kamioj/spec-workflow/spec-research@git:20260921.886d28d

Pins git:20260921.886d28d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: kamioj/spec-workflow
Path: codex/skills/spec-research/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 6
Latest version: git:20260921.886d28d, committed Sep 21, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 27, 2026
Size: 14,680 bytes
Repository stars: 20
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Researches the change — always maps the codebase status quo; spawns a web-survey researcher agent ONLY when the decision space is external (new dependency / tech choice / unfamiliar domain), never for internal refactors or fix batches. Findings go into research.md (single file; Open[TBD]/Decided maintained as before). Changing direction = snapshot the current research.md into the research/ discarded-draft pile first, then overwrite; old drafts can be resurrected at any time.

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

<!-- GENERATED from core/commands/research.md — edit the core file and run node tools/generate.mjs; hand edits will be overwritten -->

# $spec-research

Research direction: $ARGUMENTS

## Artifact structure

```
spec/changes/<name>/
├── research.md                   ← current research (single file: Practices + Constraints + Open[TBD] + Decided)
├── index.md                      ← requirement & asset index (R-N verbatim quotes + A-N assets + E-N exemplars — built HERE at first source contact; see references/index-spec.md)
└── research/                     ← discarded-draft pile for this proposal (optional; only created on direction change)
    └── <title>-research.md       ← full snapshot of an abandoned research.md; no labels, no links, resurrectable
```

- **research.md** is the **current** research — single file, all content inline. `## Open [TBD]` / `## Decided` are maintained the same way as before.
- **research/** holds **discarded drafts only** — when you change direction, the old research.md is moved here in its entirety. **No cross-linking**: research.md does not link to them, and drafts carry no status markers.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add kamioj/spec-workflow/spec-research@sha256:d979dd08d782de97

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260921.886d28d, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_irmlcvw6sdnfmn7m.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_irmlcvw6sdnfmn7m)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 27, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026, about one every 5 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260921.886d28d latest	2026-09-21	886d28d	14,680 B	A	view · diff
git:20260910.a57f970	2026-09-10	a57f970	13,906 B	A	view · diff
git:20260909.ad954af	2026-09-09	ad954af	12,880 B	A	view · diff
git:20260904.f4c79c8	2026-09-04	f4c79c8	12,670 B	A	view · diff
git:20260903.2f5affb	2026-09-03	2f5affb	12,215 B	A	view · diff
git:20260827.119c36f	2026-08-27	119c36f	11,281 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14680 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

GitHub

kamioj/spec-workflow · 20 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_irmlcvw6sdnfmn7m
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kamioj/spec-workflow/spec-research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d979dd08d782de971b992afd7a489dba6443f30015def16544261b28561c4727

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