legwork SKILL.md skillA
legwork from dbhq-uk/legwork-skill is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dbhq-uk/legwork-skill/legwork@git:20261019.e09a01fPins git:20261019.e09a01f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dbhq-uk/legwork-skill
- Path
skills/legwork/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 19
- Latest version
- git:20261019.e09a01f, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 27,528 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when the user needs research that settles a decision - market validation, build-or-buy, competitor and pricing scans, "is there demand for X", "where should we publish this", "what does the incumbent actually do". Produces a cited findings memo or report where every claim states how well it is supported. Also when the user asks for deep research, a research report or a comparison of options, or says "legwork". Not for simple lookups, debugging, or anything one or two searches would answer.
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
# legwork Decision research. The question is always some version of "what should we do about X", and the deliverable is judged on whether someone can act on it, not on whether it is exhaustive. Three ideas run through every step below: - **A source is judged by whether it is the right kind of thing for the claim it backs**, not by whether its domain is respectable. A vendor's pricing page is the best evidence of a price and the worst evidence of whether the product is any good. - **Sources only corroborate if they could have disagreed.** Pages from one party are one voice, and corroboration is counted across different lines of enquiry, because your own searching inflates the number of sources. - **A run that cannot answer says so.** Hedged length is not an answer. **Work without asking.** Infer the decision from context, pick a level, announce it in one line and start. The user can redirect mid-run, which costs far less than a blocking question. Stop only for a critical error or a request you cannot understand. ## Levels Depth raises rigour. It never raises length. | | quick | standard | deep | |---|---|---|---| …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dbhq-uk/legwork-skill/legwork@sha256:ae343ff097cadc18The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.e09a01f, 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_ucvgmhbglsfjpnkn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 19 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 4 days.
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| git:20261019.e09a01f latest | 2026-10-19 | e09a01f | 27,528 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.9fbfd3a | 2026-10-17 | 9fbfd3a | 27,720 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.8e5f199 | 2026-10-03 | 8e5f199 | 25,987 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.e14592e | 2026-10-03 | e14592e | 25,994 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.5983a7a | 2026-09-29 | 5983a7a | 26,132 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.35dbb41 | 2026-09-25 | 35dbb41 | 23,473 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.950b0f9 | 2026-09-25 | 950b0f9 | 23,403 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.b6ee6e3 | 2026-09-24 | b6ee6e3 | 22,228 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.bac43e0 | 2026-09-24 | bac43e0 | 21,922 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.66345a5 | 2026-09-24 | 66345a5 | 21,156 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.1b15d11 | 2026-09-24 | 1b15d11 | 20,929 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.334fd32 | 2026-09-24 | 334fd32 | 20,064 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.d8de361 | 2026-09-13 | d8de361 | 20,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.d2cc049 | 2026-09-13 | d2cc049 | 20,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.9e686a0 | 2026-09-06 | 9e686a0 | 20,230 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.247229f | 2026-09-06 | 247229f | 18,907 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.2b737a2 | 2026-09-06 | 2b737a2 | 18,632 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.1ecf113 | 2026-09-06 | 1ecf113 | 16,579 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.f6faf3d | 2026-08-13 | f6faf3d | 18,244 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 (27528 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
dbhq-uk/legwork-skill · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ucvgmhbglsfjpnkn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dbhq-uk/legwork-skill/legwork GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ae343ff097cadc180ecd4db889c86fea296beed042c12d71e8ae62e2bb5e0072
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.