research-compendium SKILL.md skillB
research-compendium from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/research-compendium@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- garrytan/gbrain
- Path
skills/research-compendium/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 23,755 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31,587
- License
- MIT
Deep-research a topic end to end and produce a permanent, reusable knowledge asset: archive every primary source verbatim (gated by the user's privacy/retention posture), write one 1:1 summary per source, then synthesize a single self-contained compendium page. Depth is a dial (base synthesis → grounded primaries → books + counter-canon → saturation), each level an idempotent superset of the one below. Distinct from data-research (structured trackers) and perplexity-research (web deltas): this…
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-compendium — Archive Everything, Summarize 1:1, Synthesize Once > **Convention:** see [conventions/brain-first.md](../conventions/brain-first.md) > for the lookup chain. Phase 1 is literally brain-first: search the brain > before the open web — the corpus may already be partly ingested. > > **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for > citation rules, quote fidelity, and back-link enforcement. > > **Convention:** see [_brain-filing-rules.md](../_brain-filing-rules.md) — > everything this skill writes files under `research/` per the research rule. ## What this is Turn a research question into a permanent brain asset: **find everything → archive every primary source → summarize each 1:1 → synthesize one self-contained compendium.** This is distinct from `data-research` (which extracts *structured data* into trackers). This skill produces *prose knowledge synthesis* — a definitive, fast-to-read, comprehensive reference page backed by an archived source corpus. Use when the user says "research X, read everything, save the sources, summarize each, and write me a compendium / definitive guide / …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/research-compendium@sha256:70abf5032d155482The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_qezbxcadewdql5wa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 28 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-07 | 590bb9a | 23,755 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-10-04 | 739e5cc | 23,754 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-12 | 3f22f51 | 23,011 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore previous instructions)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (23755 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 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qezbxcadewdql5wa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/research-compendium GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/70abf5032d1554820a913fd5e17f8ddd02148c7a52476d5a2f799c806a27fcb6
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