search-queries SKILL.md skillA

search-queries from jstanden/cerb is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jstanden/cerb/search-queries@git:20260823.7d1dc0c

Pins git:20260823.7d1dc0c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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jstanden/cerb
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features/cerberusweb.core/assets/agent_filesystems/cerb-agents/skills/search-queries/SKILL.md
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git:20260823.7d1dc0c, committed Aug 23, 2026
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Cerb's search query language -- the filter:expression grammar, one syntax per filter type, deep search, boolean groups, and sorting. Load it before writing a worklist query, a saved search, or a `record_query:`.

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

# Cerb search queries

The text language Cerb uses to filter records in worklists, saved searches, API requests, and automations (`record_query:` in `record.search:` / `data.query:`).

Writing one is two jobs: knowing the GRAMMAR (this skill) and knowing which filter keys a record type actually exposes (the `records` skill — `cerb records filters <type>` is the authority, and it reports THIS install including its custom fieldsets).

## Method

1. Identify the target record type. Never assume it; if it's genuinely ambiguous, ask, otherwise state what you assumed.
2. Look up the filters that record type actually exposes before writing them — `cerb records filters <type>` is the fastest authority. Never invent a filter name; an unknown filter fails the whole query.
3. Match the expression syntax to the filter's TYPE (text, fulltext, number, boolean, date, chooser, record/deep-search, links, watchers, nullness).
4. Give the query, then explain each non-obvious filter in one line.
5. Offer a tighter or looser variant when the result set is likely too broad or too narrow (a date bound, a `sort:`, a deep search instead of a guess).
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jstanden/cerb/search-queries@sha256:805d325f05493c86

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260823.7d1dc0c, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 23, 2026.

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4236 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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Source

GitHub

jstanden/cerb · 83 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch 12.0.x

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lvxnk6j5rnhpkj3e
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jstanden/cerb/search-queries
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/805d325f05493c8695384b179335a54664803da1c6a912ad8994495c992d70ef

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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