desk-research SKILL.md skillB
desk-research from eugenelim/agent-ready-repo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/desk-research@git:20260922.98d4246Pins git:20260922.98d4246 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- eugenelim/agent-ready-repo
- Path
packs/desk-research/.apm/skills/desk-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20260922.98d4246, committed Sep 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 27, 2026
- Size
- 31,263 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- Apache-2.0
Evidence-grounded research with selectable depth and discipline. Use for any look-up, find-out, fact-check, or comprehensive investigation, including prior art and best practice surveys. Carries a mode parameter (quick / standard / applied / deep) with `quick` as default — casual phrasings (`look up`, `find out`, `quick check`) stay quick; academic phrasings (`research with citations`, `evidence-grounded`, `go deep`, `comprehensively`) bias standard or deep; practitioner phrasings…
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
# /desk-research The research lifecycle's anchor. Selects one of four modes based on the prompt's depth and discipline signals, dispatches retrievers, synthesises findings with citations and per-finding confidence ratings, and (in deep mode) adversarially reviews its own output. ## Output rendering <!-- agentbundle:output-rendering:start --> Lead with the useful outcome or next action. Use warm, non-blaming language and everyday words. Define an unfamiliar term in a few plain words before naming it; keep proper names and exact technical terms intact. During tool work, do not narrate routine calls. Send an update only for safety, a blocker, a needed decision, a material scope change, a long wait, or an active host requirement. When requesting input, ask only for what is needed now. Ask dependent questions one at a time; otherwise group related questions. Offer no more than three clear choices when choices help. Shape the answer to the facts: one fact needs one sentence; related facts use prose; separate items use bullets; real sequences use numbered steps. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/desk-research@sha256:89f0495ab6444cfeThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260922.98d4246, 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_sv2khcxw5r7bnqy2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jul 27, 2026 and Sep 22, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260922.98d4246 latest | 2026-09-22 | 98d4246 | 31,263 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260918.8598e2e | 2026-09-18 | 8598e2e | 30,982 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260831.4fc25c2 | 2026-08-31 | 4fc25c2 | 31,049 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260829.fd59e28 | 2026-08-29 | fd59e28 | 30,885 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260819.8428185 | 2026-08-19 | 8428185 | 28,328 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260807.981abcd | 2026-08-07 | 981abcd | 23,225 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260727.e7caac4 | 2026-07-27 | e7caac4 | 23,263 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No prompt-injection phrasing (matched: ignore your previous instructions)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (31263 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 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
eugenelim/agent-ready-repo · 28 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sv2khcxw5r7bnqy2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/desk-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/89f0495ab6444cfe1783761f6250d24941cc0f7af6ba1d546d4ab68087103736
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