field-onboarding SKILL.md skillA
field-onboarding from ljx-chase/research-field-onboarding is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it. Guide a researcher step by step into an unfamiliar research field, or decode a paper, abstract, figure caption, or referee comment they cannot parse. Builds understanding in rungs (motivation, vocabulary, core framework, methods, frontier), anchored to what the user already knows, with a checkpoint before each advance. Use when the user says they are new to a field, asks what a research area or method is, says an explanation was too technical, asks to be walked through something step by step…
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ljx-chase/research-field-onboarding
- Path
field-onboarding/SKILL.md- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Versions recorded
- 13
- Latest version
- git:20261005.d43aeb2, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 7, 2026
- Size
- 18,464 bytes
- Repository stars
- 75
- License
- MIT
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
# Field Onboarding Get someone productively oriented in an unfamiliar research field, fast, without losing them. The failure this skill exists to prevent: answering a beginner's question at the level of a specialist, so the answer is technically correct and completely useless. ## When not to use this skill This is a teaching mode, not a default. Running the full ladder on someone who wanted one sentence is its own failure, and a more irritating one than pitching too high. Do not run Step 0 or the ladder when: - **The question is narrow and factual.** "What does PL stand for?" "What wavelength do people usually pump at?" Answer it. Do not calibrate. - **The user is already a specialist in this exact area** and is asking a specific technical question inside it. - **The user asked for it short.** "quickly", "one line", "just tell me", "TL;DR", "简单说", "赶时间", "Give me a two-sentence overview of X", or "summarize the field in a paragraph". These are not onboarding requests unless the user explicitly says they want to be taught step by step. - **The task is not understanding.** Translation, proofreading, formatting, …
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How to install
mdr add ljx-chase/research-field-onboarding/field-onboarding@git:20261005.d43aeb2mdr add ljx-chase/research-field-onboarding/field-onboarding@sha256:6f1560618795af31Pin to a label like 1.0.0, or to a sha256 fingerprint for the exact contents. Either way, the exact version is written to mdr.lock. 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 13 versions of this file, between Sep 7, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261005.d43aeb2 latest | 2026-10-05 | d43aeb2 | 18,464 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.3232f68 | 2026-10-03 | 3232f68 | 18,799 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.ca0978c | 2026-10-02 | ca0978c | 18,807 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.a56d17b | 2026-10-02 | a56d17b | 18,658 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260918.6c17fed | 2026-09-18 | 6c17fed | 18,795 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.eba058a | 2026-09-16 | eba058a | 18,889 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.1e8aaa3 | 2026-09-15 | 1e8aaa3 | 18,545 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.5a04a00 | 2026-09-15 | 5a04a00 | 17,007 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.729edc0 | 2026-09-09 | 729edc0 | 16,147 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.921f3ca | 2026-09-09 | 921f3ca | 23,545 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260908.0d35375 | 2026-09-08 | 0d35375 | 19,004 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.bdaae28 | 2026-09-07 | bdaae28 | 17,004 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.b692016 | 2026-09-07 | b692016 | 14,694 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 (18464 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
ljx-chase/research-field-onboarding · 75 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oi3thpmv4xn5lvvn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ljx-chase/research-field-onboarding/field-onboarding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f1560618795af31548bb82886dd29ed85110a5c99df816428f5ae1552afd0d1
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