research-article SKILL.md skillA
research-article from tomzx/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tomzx/agents/research-article@git:20261013.e92ebcaPins git:20261013.e92ebca in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomzx/agents
- Path
skills/research-article/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261013.e92ebca, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 1, 2026
- Size
- 10,281 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Research a topic to map the state of the art, gathering and triaging sources before writing an article. Produces a research brief with organized sources, key findings, and identified gaps that feeds into create-article.
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 Article Given a topic, discovers what the state of the art is by searching broadly, triaging sources, deep-reading the strongest ones, and synthesizing the field. The output is a research brief that becomes the input to `/create-article`, so the writing step can focus on craft rather than discovery. ## Prerequisites - **Topic**: The subject to investigate (e.g., "vector databases", "test-time compute in LLMs", "CRDTs for collaborative editing") - **Scope** (optional but recommended): The specific angle or question, time bounds (e.g., "last 2 years"), and what "state of the art" means here (best accuracy, fastest, most adopted, most recent breakthrough) - **Intended audience** (optional): Helps calibrate which sources and framing are relevant - **Seed sources** (optional): Any URLs, papers, or files the user already knows matter ## Steps 1. Clarify the topic and scope. State the specific research question in one sentence. Define what "state of the art" means for this topic (top benchmark score, dominant method, industry standard, latest breakthrough). Note any time bounds or constraints. 2. Search broadly. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tomzx/agents/research-article@sha256:d29afa1c1b5c9451The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.e92ebca, 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 Jul 1, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 26 days.
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| git:20261013.e92ebca latest | 2026-10-13 | e92ebca | 10,281 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.b35fc4b | 2026-10-07 | b35fc4b | 10,129 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.441d72f | 2026-10-06 | 441d72f | 10,123 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.00bb0c5 | 2026-10-04 | 00bb0c5 | 8,461 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260701.1db9ff2 | 2026-07-01 | 1db9ff2 | 8,494 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 (10281 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
tomzx/agents · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lcfoqbuexhxplkr2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tomzx/agents/research-article GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d29afa1c1b5c945161ac616942ab7cb794ab4589d33c550729b85a0f3ba5cd03
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.