protocol-research SKILL.md skillA
protocol-research from hyperb1iss/hypercolor is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hyperb1iss/hypercolor/protocol-research@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
- hyperb1iss/hypercolor
- Path
.agents/skills/protocol-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 29, 2026
- Size
- 12,376 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31
- License
- Apache-2.0
This skill should be used when researching device protocols before implementing drivers. Triggers on "reverse engineer protocol", "research device", "find protocol docs", "USB capture", "Wireshark USB", "how does this device work", "capture USB traffic", "document wire format", "write a protocol spec", "what protocol does this use", "add support for new device", "new device driver", or any pre-implementation research for crates/hypercolor-hal/ drivers.
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
# Protocol Research for Hypercolor Drivers Research methodology for understanding device protocols before implementation. Every driver starts here — implementation without research produces broken, incomplete drivers. ## Research Phase Output A completed research phase produces a **spec document** in `docs/specs/` containing: 1. Device identification (VID/PID, firmware versions, variants) 2. Transport type (HID, bulk, control, SMBus) 3. Packet layout diagrams (byte-by-byte with field names) 4. Command vocabulary (init, color, commit, firmware query) 5. Timing requirements (inter-packet delays, frame intervals) 6. Color byte ordering (RGB? RBG? BGR?) 7. Checksum/CRC algorithms 8. Topology (LED counts, zones, addressing) 9. Variant matrix (which models use which protocol version) 10. Known quirks and platform-specific behavior 11. Which integration surface the device needs (see below) ## HAL Descriptor or Driver Module? …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hyperb1iss/hypercolor/protocol-research@sha256:babb9c2484eed2b5The 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Mar 29, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, about one every 50 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-08-26 | 05acaca | 12,376 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-05-26 | 500bdb3 | 9,121 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-04-26 | 4fd7a93 | 7,769 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-29 | e761312 | 6,521 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 (12376 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
hyperb1iss/hypercolor · 31 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oim2hcgiedm2vxwe GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hyperb1iss/hypercolor/protocol-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/babb9c2484eed2b51c0f6155eb1e500231150e79f3e460e83da1315464116711
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