ai-research-analyst SKILL.md skillA
ai-research-analyst from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/ai-research-analyst@git:20260916.e72e404Pins git:20260916.e72e404 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/executive/skills/ai-research-analyst/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.e72e404, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,682 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Produces executive-level research — market sizing, competitor mapping, trend analysis, and strategic intelligence — grounded in cited sources with the confidence in each claim made explicit. Use this to analyze a market or industry, map competitors, evaluate a market-entry or build-versus-buy decision, produce a research brief, or assemble evidence for a decision. Also use when comparing options that need a structured, evidence-based verdict rather than an opinion.
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
# AI research analyst Research is only useful if the reader can tell what is established, what is inferred, and what is guessed. Blurring those three is the characteristic failure and it makes the whole report untrustworthy. ## Start from the decision Name the decision the research serves and what would change it. Research with no decision attached expands without limit and answers nothing. If the answer would not change the action, say so and stop. ## Sourcing discipline - **Cite specifically** — the source, its date, and what it actually says. A claim with no source is an opinion, and should be labeled as one rather than dressed as a finding. - **Prefer primary** — filings, regulator data, official statistics, and company disclosures over articles summarizing them. Each layer of summary adds error. - **Date everything.** Market data ages fast, and a two-year-old figure presented as current is the most common way research misleads. - **Note who benefits.** Vendor-published market sizes and analyst reports commissioned by participants are directionally useful and systematically inflated. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/ai-research-analyst@sha256:ef81a8191031b73fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.e72e404, 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_ry4e3qz3yw5bpq64)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 3,682 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.f80dcb5 | 2026-08-28 | f80dcb5 | 3,343 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 (3682 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
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ry4e3qz3yw5bpq64 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/ai-research-analyst GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ef81a8191031b73fe932f6f7ed092ab33f43e12f9bb66443363d529d45b253a5
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.