ai-research SKILL.md skillA
ai-research from arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-research@git:20260929.3986acbPins git:20260929.3986acb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering
- Path
skills/ai-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260929.3986acb, committed Sep 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 8,940 bytes
- Repository stars
- 65
- License
- Apache-2.0
Finds evidence from outside this repository and reports it with numbered citations, or marks a claim [unsourced] and leaves it marked. Uses only the tools the client actually has: the local floor is always on, web search / Tavily / Exa run only when the client configured them, and NotebookLM deep research runs only when `notebooklm doctor` passes — an absent tool degrades and is named, never an error. Ends with three cited directions worth taking. Trigger for…
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 — find out with what the client has, and say where it came from ## The ladder, and the rule that nothing is required Every run has a floor that needs nothing external: this repository, the IDE and the assigned surface, the `ai-eng` harness, the model available, and the prior reports in `.ai-engineering/research/`. Everything above that floor is an upgrade the client may or may not have, and each rung is used only when it is present: - **Local (always on)** — the tree, the prior reports and the framework's own records are searched first. A question answerable here is answered here. - **Web (only when the client configured it)** — the surface's own web search or fetch, Tavily or Exa, when the client has the MCPs or the keys. An absent provider is recorded as `degraded-tool: <name>` once, never an error. - **NotebookLM (only when `notebooklm doctor` exits 0)** — deep research, launched first and harvested last, overlapped with the fast rungs. Absent or unauthenticated → the run degrades and continues; a bounded wait that times out still records the `notebook_id` so a later run can harvest the finished report. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-research@sha256:f9f65b4c2f7b9cafThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260929.3986acb, 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 6 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Sep 29, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20260929.3986acb latest | 2026-09-29 | 3986acb | 8,940 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.b0fd9cf | 2026-09-26 | b0fd9cf | 8,617 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.793714f | 2026-09-14 | 793714f | 8,413 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.d021330 | 2026-09-10 | d021330 | 8,337 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.deb68d3 | 2026-09-01 | deb68d3 | 7,898 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.dca22e5 | 2026-09-01 | dca22e5 | 1,969 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 (8940 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
arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering · 65 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-09 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t5f4y2z3t7jqi64n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/ai-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f9f65b4c2f7b9caf5e01803cc9e006d5f563cf47102edd503a12982c163a09de
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