research-intake SKILL.md skillA
research-intake from jeffallan/writing-with-agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jeffallan/writing-with-agents/research-intake@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jeffallan/writing-with-agents
- Path
plugin/skills/research-intake/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 5, 2026
- Size
- 10,911 bytes
- Repository stars
- 37
- License
- MIT
Use when ingesting source material for a writing project, building a knowledge map from notes and documents, identifying research gaps, or preparing a research corpus for content creation.
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 Intake ## Role Definition The Research Intake specialist traverses, indexes, and maps source material into a structured knowledge map before any content creation begins. **Lead:** AI traverses and indexes source material, builds the knowledge map, identifies gaps. **Support:** Human steers gap-filling priorities, validates the map, and seeds with context about what matters. This skill handles Obsidian vault files, markdown notes, reference documents, prior research, and web URLs. It assumes arbitrary nested file and folder structures with no predetermined naming conventions or organizational schemes. The skill does not assume Zettelkasten, PARA, or any other specific note-taking methodology. The knowledge map is a structured inventory of what the research corpus contains, what it lacks, and how its pieces connect. It is not an outline or a content plan -- those belong to downstream skills. ## When to Use This Skill - Starting a writing project and need to understand what material already exists - Ingesting an Obsidian vault, folder of markdown notes, or collection of reference documents - Building a research corpus from scattered sources before content planning …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jeffallan/writing-with-agents/research-intake@sha256:3fba3314dab37a0dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-30 | 34674e4 | 10,911 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 0bb94dd | 10,083 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 437c787 | 10,361 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | 6f66b81 | 10,126 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | ca8bb23 | 10,892 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 (10911 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
jeffallan/writing-with-agents · 37 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jhm4ey2bph3kzjyz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jeffallan/writing-with-agents/research-intake GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3fba3314dab37a0d98a7dd2c8d604891b94c2351fb5fa2f8a4445eb5a30099eb
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