sim-diff SKILL.md skillA
sim-diff from pafloxy/sim-diff is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pafloxy/sim-diff/sim-diff@v0.3.0-reconstructedPins v0.3.0-reconstructed in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pafloxy/sim-diff
- Path
skills/sim-diff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.3.0-reconstructed, committed Sep 21, 2026
- Size
- 9,787 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Find and compare research literature against a question or scoped notes using separate objective and technique similarity, then similarities, differences, and transfer. Use for research-neighbor searches and related-work analysis, not ordinary summaries or proof certification.
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
# Sim-Diff literature discovery ## Purpose Find literature useful to a specific research question by comparing **objectives** and **techniques separately**. Establish the shared structure first; explain the important differences second; then assess what transfers. This is not ordinary topic matching, a novelty certificate, or a mandatory vector-embedding pipeline. ## Inputs and defaults Accept an explicit question, manuscript, selected notes, or an approved context capsule. Optional configuration selects domain, sources, date window, depth, budget, known papers, and output size. Without configuration, use one explicit anchor, balanced depth, at most 8 search queries, 20 screened candidates, 5 full-text investigations, and 5 reported neighbors. These are proposed work limits, not evidence of optimality. Report budget exhaustion; never pad results. Modes: `anchor`, `discover`, `compare`, `refresh`, and `evaluate`. An explicit user request overrides these defaults, not source-fidelity rules. For a supplied fixed corpus, compare it without external retrieval unless asked. ## 1. Establish the anchor and access boundary …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pafloxy/sim-diff/sim-diff@sha256:53fba44391d43030The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.0-reconstructed, 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_nx6upvvcnqzm6hjg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 21, 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 (9787 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
pafloxy/sim-diff · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch public-master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nx6upvvcnqzm6hjg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pafloxy/sim-diff/sim-diff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/53fba44391d4303047d3fab37d0e01015e20695b23e828c3b812dd651d51822e
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.