you-research SKILL.md skillA
you-research from youdotcom-oss/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research@v0.5.1Pins v0.5.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- youdotcom-oss/agent-skills
- Path
skills/you-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- v0.5.1, committed Oct 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 30, 2026
- Size
- 3,179 bytes
- Repository stars
- 98
- License
- MIT
Multi-source research with citations using You.com. Use for questions that need several sources compared and synthesized, such as library or framework comparisons, tool and vendor evaluations, market research, or deep-dive reports. Routes between a cost-conscious agentic search loop and the one-shot `you-research` MCP tool.
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
# You.com Research Routing Use this skill to choose the right You.com research path for the user's goal: agent-led search with `you-search` and `you-contents`, or one-shot cited synthesis with the `you-research` MCP tool. ## Prerequisites The You.com MCP endpoint must be reachable from the host: - Managed research (`you-research`): `https://api.you.com/mcp/research` with OAuth (preferred), `YDC_API_KEY` bearer auth, or an MPP/x402-aware MCP client. MPP/x402-aware MCP clients may receive HTTP `402` payment challenges from You.com tools, then retry with payment headers. Let the host client handle external payment and retry; do not add wallet signing logic to this skill. ## Managed research with the you-research MCP tool Call the `you-research` MCP tool when the user wants a synthesized answer with citations in one step. It runs You.com's managed research pipeline and returns a concise answer with inline citations and source metadata, so the host does not orchestrate multi-step search itself. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research@sha256:8b75f107543d0927The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.5.1, 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_rvrllbekfticxui5)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Jul 30, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v0.5.1 latest | 2026-10-02 | b61867b | 3,179 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-10-02 | 4eb2880 | 3,179 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.5.0 | 2026-09-30 | a1f3172 | 3,167 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.4.0 | 2026-09-30 | 47297bd | 3,167 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.4.0 | 2026-09-11 | d77000a | 2,977 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-09-11 | 83726cb | 2,977 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-08-07 | 2ed8355 | 5,082 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.1 | 2026-08-07 | 56b09a2 | 5,082 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.1 | 2026-07-30 | 7e29dc1 | 4,813 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 (3179 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
youdotcom-oss/agent-skills · 98 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rvrllbekfticxui5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8b75f107543d092755c20d7ccd90a77ca6b2350f5b2cecacb50f75ac810f91dc
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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