deep-research SKILL.md skillB
deep-research from open-octo/octo-agent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add open-octo/octo-agent/deep-research@git:20260807.58b8c70Pins git:20260807.58b8c70 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- open-octo/octo-agent
- Path
internal/skills/defaults/deep-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260807.58b8c70, committed Aug 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 1, 2026
- Size
- 6,167 bytes
- Repository stars
- 140
- License
- MIT
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
# Skill: deep-research A harness for research you can trust: breadth first (many angles), then depth (primary sources), then an adversarial pass that tries to *break* each claim before it goes in the report. Built on octo's native tools — `web_search`, `web_fetch`, `sub_agent`, and (for login-gated / JS-rendered / anti-bot sites) the `browser` tool via the `web-access` skill. No external services. The goal is a **cited** report where every non-obvious claim traces to a source you actually read — not a plausible-sounding summary of search snippets. ## 0. Scope before you search Research is only as good as the question. Before any tool call, confirm you can state the **deliverable**: what question, what decision it informs, what time window, what region/market, what depth. If any of these is missing and would change the answer, ask 2-3 sharp clarifying questions first — don't guess a scope and burn a fan-out on the wrong one. Then write down, in one line, what "done" looks like. That line is the acceptance criterion the final report is checked against. ## 1. Fan out — breadth Decompose the question into 4-8 **independent** sub-questions, each attacking a …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add open-octo/octo-agent/deep-research@sha256:fab92cae827fe233The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260807.58b8c70, 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_sik2zoytf4wbbr7h)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 1, 2026 and Aug 7, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260807.58b8c70 latest | 2026-08-07 | 58b8c70 | 6,167 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260807.938c3fd | 2026-08-07 | 938c3fd | 6,129 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260701.b9c1253 | 2026-07-01 | b9c1253 | 6,149 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6167 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
open-octo/octo-agent · 140 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sik2zoytf4wbbr7h GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=open-octo/octo-agent/deep-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fab92cae827fe233cf5566657fa084cd36608a8a2df62ae54fdc3714db63392e
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