academic-research-companion SKILL.md skillA
academic-research-companion from grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/academic-research-companion@git:20260718.b2bfa7aPins git:20260718.b2bfa7a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering
- Path
plugins/academic-research-companion/skills/academic-research-companion/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260718.b2bfa7a, committed Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 8,674 bytes
- Repository stars
- 430
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Guide a research project through the full academic lifecycle — from raw idea to concrete research question, literature grounding, methodology, writing, feedback, and publication. Use this skill whenever the user shares a research idea, asks to "flesh out" a topic, wants sources or a literature review, asks about methodology or research design, wants to write or structure a paper, asks about peer review, publishing (independent, conference, journal, or preprint), co-authorship, author order, or…
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
# Academic Research Companion Guide the user through a doctoral-caliber research workflow, phase by phase. Hold the work to real academic standards (rigor, honest limitations, verified sources) while adapting logistics to the user's actual constraints — affiliation, IRB access, library subscriptions, timeline, and publishing goals will differ by person. Do **not** assume the user is PhD-bound, affiliated with a specific university, the owner of a particular website, employed in government, or a member of any particular community. Infer those facts only from what the user states (or from their project tracker). ## First-use context intake On the first session of a **project** (or whenever these are unknown), create the tracker from `references/tracker-template.md` first, then ask briefly and record answers in that tracker: 1. **Goal** — credential track (e.g. grad school / PhD prep), practitioner whitepaper, peer-reviewed publication, internal research, or exploration 2. **Affiliation** — student, faculty, industry/practitioner, or independent (and home institution if any) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/academic-research-companion@sha256:2bbcbd86f1c48a85The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260718.b2bfa7a, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 18, 2026.
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 (8674 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
grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering · 430 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oskwo4jve2cf6ry5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=grcengclub/claude-grc-engineering/academic-research-companion GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2bbcbd86f1c48a85024c1497840429904bd569b4e3908e53c3a1cd7869228e9c
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