research-scout SKILL.md skillA
research-scout from vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/research-scout@v1.7Pins v1.7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public
- Path
skills/universal/research-scout/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.7, committed Oct 5, 2026
- Size
- 25,846 bytes
- Repository stars
- 101
- License
- MIT
Mines recent papers, blogs, and newsletters for methods worth stealing, with graded evidence. Use when finding recent papers or techniques for RAG, evals, or agents.
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
# Dev Research Scout Scans high-signal research sources for **methods, frameworks, and ideas worth applying** to your own work, and converts the top finds into idea cards with how-to-apply recipes, evidence quality grades, and reproducibility notes. **Supported sources:** arXiv, Hugging Face Papers, Semantic Scholar, conference proceedings (NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR / ACL / EMNLP / KDD), industry research blogs (Anthropic / OpenAI / DeepMind / Google Research / Meta AI / Microsoft Research / Apple ML), and curator newsletters (Lilian Weng, Sebastian Raschka, Eugene Yan, Latent Space, Simon Willison, The Batch, Import AI, Interconnects / Nathan Lambert, Davis Summarizes Papers / Davis Blalock). For a concrete startup area, workflow or domain-specific technical question, use [specialist-source-routing.md](references/specialist-source-routing.md). It routes PMC, NIH ExPORTER, Free Law Project, USPTO, Ubuntu IRC, PhilPapers, Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia and YouTube alongside the existing GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange owners. These are conditional evidence or product-input sources; they do not expand this skill's default method-source enum or establish commercial demand. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/research-scout@sha256:d5591f2e0609df9dThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.7, 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_mpks3bfjr7dvrbqp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 5, 2026.
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 (25846 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
vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public · 101 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mpks3bfjr7dvrbqp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/research-scout GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d5591f2e0609df9df0c6779939de34c8eaf56c0508d743e0cf65e4537f1714df
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.