research SKILL.md skillA
research from danjdewhurst/story-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/research@git:20261014.4b8019dPins git:20261014.4b8019d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- danjdewhurst/story-skills
- Path
skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 11
- Latest version
- git:20261014.4b8019d, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 22, 2026
- Size
- 10,074 bytes
- Repository stars
- 395
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when the user asks to "research", "fact-check", "check the history", "is this accurate", "research notes", "sources", "historical accuracy", "technical accuracy", "how would this really work", "verify a detail", "interview an expert", "plan a site visit", "expert review", or needs to investigate and record the real-world facts a story relies on and the chapters that use them.
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 ## Overview Investigate the real-world facts a story depends on and keep them in `research/` notes: the question, a search plan, the findings with a citation for each, how confident the finding is, and the chapters that rely on them. Research is active work, not only a ledger: form precise questions, go to primary sources where they exist, interview people and visit places, and record what was found in a form a later fact-check can retrace. The CLI tracks each note's status (`open`, `verified`, `disputed`), its `used-in` chapters, and the optional `accuracy`, `confidence`, `method`, `risk`, and `reviewed-by` fields. It checks the chapter links, warns when a final chapter still rests on research that is open or disputed, and warns when a risky note reaches a final chapter without a qualified reviewer. ## Prerequisites A story project with `story.md` in the root. The `research/` folder and its registry are created by the first `story add research`. ## When to Use - A chapter depends on history, science, law, medicine, a trade, a real place, or any detail a knowledgeable reader could check - The user asks whether something is accurate …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add danjdewhurst/story-skills/research@sha256:a5a3889004db605eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.4b8019d, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pahxsqftm47faixu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between Sep 22, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 2 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261014.4b8019d latest | 2026-10-14 | 4b8019d | 10,074 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.a8b3f01 | 2026-10-07 | a8b3f01 | 9,525 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.8632942 | 2026-10-07 | 8632942 | 9,282 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.9b5d289 | 2026-10-07 | 9b5d289 | 9,282 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.b5be7e6 | 2026-10-07 | b5be7e6 | 9,135 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.5a618a0 | 2026-10-06 | 5a618a0 | 8,902 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.7b61fd4 | 2026-09-25 | 7b61fd4 | 8,112 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.66de82c | 2026-09-24 | 66de82c | 7,758 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.e610722 | 2026-09-24 | e610722 | 7,764 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.f9090b8 | 2026-09-24 | f9090b8 | 7,912 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.53f737c | 2026-09-22 | 53f737c | 3,931 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 (10074 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
danjdewhurst/story-skills · 395 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pahxsqftm47faixu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=danjdewhurst/story-skills/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a5a3889004db605ebc5013742b226fe40fd40e8f5f93166cfa8099d6cd3a0688
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