autonomous-research SKILL.md skillA
autonomous-research from getedgehq/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add getedgehq/skills/autonomous-research@git:20260929.978c99ePins git:20260929.978c99e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- getedgehq/skills
- Path
autonomous-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260929.978c99e, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 17, 2026
- Size
- 32,675 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- Apache-2.0
An 18-agent pipeline that turns one topic line into a drafted.
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 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 and one evidence stage, each a prompt in `agents/`, plus the 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@sha256:56f886f221c9dd01The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.978c99e, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 17, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20260929.978c99e latest | 2026-09-29 | 978c99e | 32,675 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260917.e041983 | 2026-09-17 | e041983 | 29,139 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 (32675 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 · 5 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · 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/56f886f221c9dd01669abbfd3d06bb28eea2b6d3259ad441923d880e5adaf169
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.
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