method-lit-search SKILL.md skillA
method-lit-search from sajor2000/methodsmith is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sajor2000/methodsmith/method-lit-search@git:20261016.73e5a37Pins git:20261016.73e5a37 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sajor2000/methodsmith
- Path
plugins/methodsmith/skills/method-lit-search/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261016.73e5a37, committed Oct 16, 2026
- Size
- 4,789 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Routes a literature request to PubMed, full-text evidence mapping, or authoritative web sources. Use when the user broadly asks for papers or evidence.
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
# Literature Search Router ## Skill Value - **Problem it solves:** Evidence searches become incomplete or irreproducible when metadata, full text, methods extraction, and current web guidance are treated as one interchangeable task. - **Use when:** The user asks broadly for papers, literature, evidence grounding, methods sources, current guidance, or a DOI/PMID lookup and the correct source workflow is not yet clear. - **Output:** A source-selection decision, reproducible search scope, and handoff to the specialist skill that owns the requested artifact. - **Ask only if:** Topic, population/outcome, date range, jurisdiction, or required source type cannot be inferred and would change the search. - **Do not do:** Do not download from unauthorized sources, claim systematic-review coverage from a convenience search, or recreate outputs owned by a specialist skill. - **Interaction:** Check repo/config/chat evidence first. Ask one decision-changing question at a time; use the current harness's blocking question UI when available, otherwise present numbered choices and wait. ## Route …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sajor2000/methodsmith/method-lit-search@sha256:dc7ab96d63ba54e6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.73e5a37, 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_r5ljlqzi5obtqewi)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 16, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
sajor2000/methodsmith · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_r5ljlqzi5obtqewi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sajor2000/methodsmith/method-lit-search GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dc7ab96d63ba54e68b4117499157bd5263181be6265fa8ea794694265481c1a4
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.