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research-first from rashadansari/myagents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add rashadansari/myagents/research-first@git:20260612.6176a4d

Pins git:20260612.6176a4d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: rashadansari/myagents
Path: plugins/albino/skills/research-first/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260612.6176a4d, committed Jun 12, 2026
First version recorded: May 16, 2026
Size: 4,111 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Enforce thorough research before answering or implementing anything non-trivial, including always looking up the latest stable version of any library or dependency. Activate when working on unfamiliar APIs, systems, protocols, security topics, dependency versions, or any concept where guessing would be harmful.

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

# Research First: No Guessing

Do not rely on training knowledge alone for anything that matters. Research first, then answer or implement.

## When This Applies

- Unfamiliar API, SDK, or library behavior
- Security concepts, vulnerability types, cryptographic primitives
- Platform-specific behavior (OS, browser, runtime)
- Protocol specifications (HTTP, OAuth, JWT, WebSocket, etc.)
- Any version number written into a manifest, install command, Dockerfile, or CI config
- Any topic where being wrong causes a bug, vulnerability, or data loss
- Any topic where the correct answer may have changed since training cutoff

## Research Order

1. **Read the code**: grep, glob, and read relevant files in the current codebase before assuming anything about how it works
2. **Read official docs**: fetch the official documentation or spec for the concept, not a tutorial or blog post
3. **Read the source**: if behavior is ambiguous, read the library or runtime source
4. **Search broadly**: if one source is insufficient, search multiple angles: official docs, spec, changelog, known issues, CVEs
5. **Only then answer or implement**

## Hard Rules
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add rashadansari/myagents/research-first@sha256:1bbb69538279996b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260612.6176a4d, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_oiyx4b5hdy6zuurt.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_oiyx4b5hdy6zuurt)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 16, 2026 and Jun 12, 2026, about one every 13 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260612.6176a4d latest	2026-06-12	6176a4d	4,111 B	A	view · diff
git:20260522.6137508	2026-05-22	6137508	2,256 B	A	view · diff
git:20260516.2dcb52b	2026-05-16	2dcb52b	2,289 B	A	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 (4111 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

rashadansari/myagents · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oiyx4b5hdy6zuurt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rashadansari/myagents/research-first
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1bbb69538279996b738e7b0d6c788481a5900e6bd5dd308aa76f1d25b28c83e1

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.