multi-hop-retrieval SKILL.md skillA
multi-hop-retrieval from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/multi-hop-retrieval@git:20260728.fe84bd4Pins git:20260728.fe84bd4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/ai-memory-rag/multi-hop-retrieval/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fe84bd4, committed Jul 28, 2026
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- 14
- License
- MIT
Answer questions that need several linked lookups by decomposing the query and retrieving in sequence. Use when questions require combining facts that never appear in the same passage.
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
# Multi-hop retrieval Single-shot retrieval answers questions whose answer sits in one place. Questions that require connecting two facts fail silently, returning passages relevant to the surface words and missing the connection entirely. ## Method 1. **Detect when one hop is insufficient.** Comparisons, causal chains, and questions containing an unresolved reference usually need decomposition rather than a bigger top-k. 2. **Decompose into answerable sub-questions.** Each one retrievable on its own, with the second often depending on the first's answer (see agent-plan-execute-replan). 3. **Feed each answer into the next query.** The point of hopping is that the intermediate result narrows the next search, which a parallel fan-out does not achieve. 4. **Cap the hops.** Two or three, then answer with what you have, because unbounded chains accumulate error and cost quickly. 5. **Carry provenance through every hop.** The final answer must cite the sources from each step, not only the last (see citation-grounding). 6. **Detect and stop on dead ends.** A hop that retrieves nothing relevant should end the chain with an honest partial answer rather …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/multi-hop-retrieval@sha256:c662acc591620fddThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fe84bd4, 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 28, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ovpni457kdbvj33v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/multi-hop-retrieval GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c662acc591620fdde824d141e6e3227960f15f710230fab51ab4152ea63319ec
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.