deep-research SKILL.md skillA
deep-research from ahgraber/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahgraber/skills/deep-research@git:20260819.209d97bPins git:20260819.209d97b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahgraber/skills
- Path
skills/deep-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260819.209d97b, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 28, 2026
- Size
- 12,922 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- CC0-1.0
Use when the user wants a deep, multi-source, fact-checked web research report on a topic too broad for a single search. Triggers: "deep research on X", "research report", "investigate thoroughly", "comprehensive findings on", "what's the current state of X", "survey the landscape of". Not for: single-fact lookups, library/API/version questions (use mcp-research), or open-ended ideation (use brainstorming).
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
# Deep Research
## Overview
`deep-research` runs a recursive, multi-round web investigation.
It fans out parallel subagents breadth-first then depth-first, runs an adversarial verification valve once per round, and synthesizes by re-deriving contested claims from retained raw sources rather than from a summary chain.
The loop is a double-diamond: each round alternates **diverge** (explore/expand) with **converge** (synthesize/review), repeating until findings saturate or the user's budget runs out.
Four invariants make this safe and cheap — they are load-bearing, not optional:
1. **Raw-to-disk.**
Every fetch is dumped verbatim to a tmpfile.
Subagents return only `{claim, source-url, raw-pointer, self-tag}` — never raw content upward.
2. **Review re-derives from raw.**
The verification valve checks contested/load-bearing claims against the raw tmpfiles, never against the distilled findings ledger.
3. **Review fans out by claim.**
"Once per round" is a _cadence_, not a single monolithic pass: extract atomic claims, dispatch one skeptic per claim (or small batch).
4. **Synthesis reads artifacts; the user reads progress.**
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ahgraber/skills/deep-research@sha256:45566d14fe18a929The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.209d97b, 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 Jun 28, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260819.209d97b latest | 2026-08-19 | 209d97b | 12,922 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260715.883fbe1 | 2026-07-15 | 883fbe1 | 12,718 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.b980670 | 2026-07-12 | b980670 | 12,712 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260628.80004ab | 2026-06-28 | 80004ab | 12,507 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 (12922 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
ahgraber/skills · 6 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oqjvenj3urmuquko GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/deep-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/45566d14fe18a92965ec09fe5a54a6289eb6bbb9cf605f78d2edc5141d9854a3
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