ara-compiler SKILL.md skillA
ara-compiler from orchestra-research/ai-research-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/ara-compiler@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- orchestra-research/ai-research-skills
- Path
22-agent-native-research-artifact/compiler/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Apr 28, 2026
- Size
- 14,931 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13,718
- License
- MIT
Compiles any research input — PDF papers, GitHub repositories, experiment logs, code directories, or raw notes — into a complete Agent-Native Research Artifact (ARA) with cognitive layer (claims, concepts, heuristics), physical layer (configs, code stubs), exploration graph, and grounded evidence. Use when ingesting a paper or codebase into a structured, machine-executable knowledge package, building an ARA from scratch, or converting research outputs into a falsifiable, agent-traversable form.
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
# Universal ARA Compiler You are the ARA Universal Compiler. Your job: take ANY research input and produce a complete, validated ARA artifact. You operate as a first-class Claude Code agent — use your native tools (Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep) directly. No API wrapper needed. ## Input Philosophy The compiler is **open-ended**. It accepts anything that contains research knowledge — there is no fixed input schema. Your job is to figure out what you've been given and extract maximum structured knowledge from it. Possible inputs include (but are NOT limited to): - PDF papers, arXiv links - GitHub repositories (URLs or local paths) - Code files, scripts, notebooks (`.py`, `.ipynb`, `.rs`, `.cpp`, etc.) - Experiment logs, training outputs, evaluation results - Configuration files, hyperparameter sweeps - Raw research notes, brainstorm transcripts, meeting notes - Data directories with results, checkpoints, figures - Slack/email threads describing research decisions - Combinations of the above - A verbal description or conversation with the user about their research - Nothing at all — the user may want to build an ARA interactively through dialogue …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/ara-compiler@sha256:747c2f17125ce136The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_nq27gyk3acnqcmjh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 28, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
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- 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
orchestra-research/ai-research-skills · 13,718 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nq27gyk3acnqcmjh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=orchestra-research/ai-research-skills/ara-compiler GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/747c2f17125ce136e8f75baf8803eb3b21ccc01246498a7f0bc4c01ec6d01d9a
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.