research SKILL.md skillA
research from harnessprotocol/harness-kit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add harnessprotocol/harness-kit/research@git:20261022.97b92e1Pins git:20261022.97b92e1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- harnessprotocol/harness-kit
- Path
plugins/research/skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261022.97b92e1, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 10, 2026
- Size
- 20,574 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when user invokes /research command with any source — URL, GitHub repo, YouTube video, podcast, Reddit post, academic paper, documentation page, product site, local file, or empty. Processes and indexes research materials with raw source preservation and topic-level synthesis coalescing. Do NOT use for quick factual questions — use /explain instead.
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
# Research Material Processing ## Overview Process research materials using **raw source preservation + synthesis**: raw sources in `resources/` (always), synthesized analysis in `research/[category]/`. **Core principles:** 1. **Raw content preservation is NON-NEGOTIABLE.** Enables verification, re-processing, and future RAG indexing. 2. **One synthesis per topic.** If you've already researched something about the same subject, update the existing synthesis rather than creating a parallel one. Multiple raw sources feed one synthesis document. ## When to Use User types `/research:` followed by: - **One or more sources** (comma-separated) → Extract and synthesize each - **File path** → Copy and synthesize - **Empty** → Audit for unsynthesized materials, then organize **Accepted source types** (the medium doesn't matter — process them all): | Medium | Examples | |--------|---------| | GitHub repository | `github.com/owner/repo` | | Documentation page | docs.temporal.io, readthedocs.io, /docs/ paths | | Product/marketing site | company homepages, feature pages | | Academic paper | arxiv.org, PDF URLs, DOIs | | Blog post / article | dev.to, Substack, Medium, personal sites | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add harnessprotocol/harness-kit/research@sha256:bb6aafa647717d21The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.97b92e1, 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 4 versions of this file, between Mar 10, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 75 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261022.97b92e1 latest | 2026-10-22 | 97b92e1 | 20,574 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260703.b197878 | 2026-07-03 | b197878 | 20,398 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260317.9e62267 | 2026-03-17 | 9e62267 | 20,039 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260310.2fcaf7f | 2026-03-10 | 2fcaf7f | 19,662 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 (20574 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
harnessprotocol/harness-kit · 10 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vbytiock5obkqku6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harnessprotocol/harness-kit/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb6aafa647717d2161516e9a2c3df5460530932e7b9e02232860ac8360658189
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