For factual investigations of vendor materials, regulations, upstream repositories, recorded calls, or other evidence, investigate primary sources and return cited findings. Ask targeted questions when missing facts are held by people; match the requested scope.
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
Read the [Codex desktop binding](../../../CODEX.md) when this workflow needs harness mechanics, model routing, or recovery.
Research investigates autonomously against primary sources: vendor materials, regulations, upstream repositories, recorded calls, and accessible live systems. Deliver cited findings in the current task for a bounded question, or in the agreed findings file for durable project research. Existing research tickets retain their tracking contract.
## Contract
1. **Primary sources only.** Read the actual material: the vendor doc, the upstream code, the regulation text, the recording. Secondary summaries are leads, not evidence.
2. **Match the requested destination.** For durable research, save to the bound findings home (default `docs/research/<topic>.md`). PII-bearing or local-only material belongs in an ignored location. For a bounded answer, keep the cited result in the current task.
3. **Findings cite their sources inline.** A claim without a source is a hypothesis and is labeled as one. Distinguish clearly: what the source says, what you infer, what remains unknown.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260906.a9317e0, 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.
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 (4664 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
timharris707/skills · 44 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jrm4qngeaed2jine
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=timharris707/skills/research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3873e8ce861f6a55a2374394fc8ed2303503c5b3750871bdd23da06f4d5ecf6f
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.
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