autonomous-research skillA
autonomous-research is agent-read markdown (skill) from getedgehq/skills: An 18-agent pipeline that turns one topic line into a drafted.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Autonomous Research Turns one topic line into a finished paper with a real literature base. Ported from OpenDraft (github.com/federicodeponte/opendraft, MIT), which runs this as a hosted engine. Here the engine is you: eighteen stages, each one a prompt in `agents/`, plus five scripts that do the parts a language model must not do by hand. **You are the model.** No key, no service, no account. The only network calls are Crossref, OpenAlex and DataCite, all open endpoints. ## The one command ``` Write a paper on <topic> ``` Everything below follows from that. Do not ask the user to run the stages themselves; run them. ## Ask four things first Before stage 5, if the user has not already said, ask for: 1. **Target venue**, or "none, general academic". 2. **Total word limit.** 3. **Citation style**, one of the six in `references/citation-styles.md`. 4. **Document type**, one of the types in `references/paper-types.md`. These are four questions in one message, not an interview, and they are the only questions the pipeline asks. Everything else it decides. Ask because the cost of guessing lands at the end and cannot be paid there. A …
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How to install
mdr add getedgehq/skills/autonomous-research@git:20260917.e041983mdr add getedgehq/skills/autonomous-research@sha256:9cf22eb9c82313a5Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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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 (29139 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
getedgehq/skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rizr2zixd7jvoyq5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=getedgehq/skills/autonomous-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9cf22eb9c82313a50ebfc6c22d4476c27dab836707355b9198d3272852dfccd2
Your agent 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.