autonomous-investigation SKILL.md skillA

autonomous-investigation from ninjasln-labs/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ninjasln-labs/agent-skills/autonomous-investigation@v1.2.0

Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ninjasln-labs/agent-skills
Path
autonomous-investigation/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.2.0, committed Oct 2, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 3, 2026
Size
16,101 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
none declared

The evidence protocol behind recurring competitive and market investigation skills — market scans, competitive snapshots, intel watches, battle cards — not a research executor. Use when AI research must proceed without you: search-plan gate, Fact/Inference/Assumption labels, confidence stacking, diffable outputs. NOT for answering a one-off research question or producing a single research report.

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

## 中文速览(Quick Guide)

- **做什么**:为市场/竞品调查类技能定义证据协议——问题预算、Fact/Inference/Assumption 标注、置信度累加与可 diff 的产出;它本身不是研究执行器。
- **何时用**:当调查需要在你不在场时继续(作为 agent 任务、循环或定时任务跑),而不是回答一次性研究问题或产单份报告。
- **核心步骤**:①划定问题预算(通常 3 个澄清问题)并给出检索计划 → ②采集证据并给每条结论打标签 → ③按置信度累加规则逐级升级 → ④按稳定格式产出可与上期对比的结论。
- **国内可达性**:正文规定源不可达时**记入 gaps 列表并写明失败原因,不得以无出处的断言替代**;全部源都不可达则输出空节 +「no sources reachable」注记 + Final Step 块——一次可 diff 的空跑胜过卡住或编造。

## 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.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ninjasln-labs/agent-skills/autonomous-investigation@sha256:c014170ffefcd924

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 3, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 15 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.2.0 latest2026-10-02 6a4995b 16,101 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-09-29 0febb7a 15,176 BA view · diff
v1.0.22026-09-22 75c75c0 11,833 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-07 571fb57 11,650 BA view · diff
git:20260803.88cd1672026-08-03 88cd167 11,566 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16101 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

GitHub

ninjasln-labs/agent-skills · 3 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nxt3fgwfdxpcaqu5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ninjasln-labs/agent-skills/autonomous-investigation
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c014170ffefcd9244f722126ca748caf9035e663bb98b3e6aa39a97a0b34221f

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