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autonomous-research from eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills/autonomous-research@git:20261104.faacb66

Pins git:20261104.faacb66 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills
Path: autonomous-research/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261104.faacb66, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded: Nov 3, 2026
Size: 8,863 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: none declared

Autonomous: Research. User research, unattended: UserTesting think-out-loud tests and Outset AI-moderated interviews built from the real target, recruiting with fraud-resistant screeners (the platform panel or User Interviews), launching only on the user's okay; then harvesting results, quality screening, traceable analysis with verbatim quotes, telemetry, and the deliverable asked for: a readout, quote pull, slideshow, decision digest of an issue epic, or the full loop…

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

# Autonomous: Research

Research for decisions that need evidence from users: set up and run studies, harvest and synthesize
what they return, and keep the research platforms callable underneath. Turn a one-line research
topic, for example *"how do people react to the redesigned model picker"* or *"how do developers read
the current VS Code homepage"*, into a **review-ready study** with zero human clicks up to the launch
gate, and completed studies into decisions.

Running a study:

1. **Plan** the brief: topic, surface, platform, audience, participants, length, success criteria.
2. **Capture** stimulus from the real target (Code OSS, the deployed website, or the actual prototype).
3. **Author** the study in UserTesting (browser builder) or Outset (MCP).
4. **Screen and recruit**: a tight, fraud-resistant screener on the platform or in User Interviews.
5. **Validate and hand back** a draft with preview/review links and the all-in cost. **Do not launch.**
6. **Launch only on the user's explicit okay**, then monitor, fix, and hand the results to synthesis
   ([`references/synthesis.md`](references/synthesis.md)). A research loop the user set up with launching
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills/autonomous-research@sha256:54f40136e90fb3cd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.faacb66, 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_q2xsqovh6ehhq55a.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_q2xsqovh6ehhq55a)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Nov 3, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, more than one a day.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261104.faacb66 latest	2026-11-04	faacb66	8,863 B	A	view · diff
git:20261103.5dc815c	2026-11-03	5dc815c	8,735 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 (8863 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

eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills · 3 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q2xsqovh6ehhq55a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eli-w-king/autonomous-output-skills/autonomous-research
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/54f40136e90fb3cd06dafd15dd6067b80df192bf3adfeeade2d0af1a6058c15f

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.

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