autonomous-investigation SKILL.md skillA
autonomous-investigation from deanpeters/product-manager-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/autonomous-investigation@git:20260717.eb7a51ePins git:20260717.eb7a51e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deanpeters/product-manager-skills
- Path
skills/autonomous-investigation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260717.eb7a51e, committed Jul 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 12,400 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7,599
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
The protocol behind every investigation skill. Use when AI research must proceed without you: search-plan gate, Fact/Inference/Assumption labels, confidence stacking, diffable outputs.
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
# Autonomous Investigation Protocol ## Purpose Provide the canonical contract for **investigation skills** — research the AI performs in the world (web search, published data, public filings) while you review the evidence instead of feeding it context. Where `workshop-facilitation` governs skills that ask you questions one at a time, this protocol governs skills that *proceed without you*: they budget their questions, show their plan, label every claim, and produce output stable enough to diff against last quarter's run. That last property is the payoff — an investigation honoring this contract can run as an agent task, in a loop, or on a schedule. ## Input **Nothing required** — this skill defines the protocol other investigation skills follow. **Also useful when invoked standalone:** the target of the investigation and, above all, **the decision the research should support**. Research without a decision is a hobby; every investigation skill asks for the decision because it determines what "just enough" means. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add deanpeters/product-manager-skills/autonomous-investigation@sha256:2aa342346a9a9591The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260717.eb7a51e, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_m3kebysxddistt3x)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 17, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260717.eb7a51e latest | 2026-07-17 | eb7a51e | 12,400 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.0ad6f9c | 2026-07-17 | 0ad6f9c | 11,754 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 (12400 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
deanpeters/product-manager-skills · 7,599 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m3kebysxddistt3x GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deanpeters/product-manager-skills/autonomous-investigation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2aa342346a9a9591e660a6513c290ecec761a16092a9e68871f01f3c8cf74751
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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