research SKILL.md skillA
research from leek/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add leek/agent-skills/research@git:20261006.5b17497Pins git:20261006.5b17497 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- leek/agent-skills
- Path
skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261006.5b17497, committed Oct 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 4,396 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a cited Markdown file. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or package facts gathered, reading legwork delegated, or a wayfinder research ticket resolved.
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 Answer one question from **primary sources** and leave a cited Markdown file behind. **The question is `$ARGUMENTS`.** If that is empty, the question is the one stated in the conversation; if there is none either, stop and report that you need the question as an argument (in Claude Code this skill runs in its own subagent and cannot see the conversation). ## Where this runs In Claude Code with the plugin installed, the body below runs in the `researcher` subagent and the answer returns to the caller when it finishes. In other harnesses, dispatch it to a sub-agent if one exists (Codex: `spawn_agent`, then `wait_agent` for the answer; read-only for source sweeps; general-purpose when it must fetch or write) or run it inline and say so. Either way the work must **finish inside this session**: a sub-agent's task handle dies at `/clear`, session end, or compaction, so never leave one running, and in everything durable (tickets, resolution comments, hand-off text) reference the findings **by file path, never by task ID**. ## The research brief …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add leek/agent-skills/research@sha256:e42a2891f86cc8d3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261006.5b17497, 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 Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 6, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261006.5b17497 latest | 2026-10-06 | 5b17497 | 4,396 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.fcd124e | 2026-09-30 | fcd124e | 4,340 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.43a5e56 | 2026-09-26 | 43a5e56 | 3,840 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.600ab82 | 2026-09-22 | 600ab82 | 3,781 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.be562dc | 2026-09-22 | be562dc | 4,045 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 (4396 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
leek/agent-skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mpxa7iq36vll4som GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=leek/agent-skills/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e42a2891f86cc8d36363571f2264911572a12b9c14beea7f83bf118e53030809
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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