deep-research SKILL.md skillA
deep-research from naveedharri/benai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/deep-research@git:20260916.a3b1e15Pins git:20260916.a3b1e15 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naveedharri/benai-skills
- Path
plugins/all-skills/skills/deep-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.a3b1e15, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 27, 2026
- Size
- 10,646 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when conducting comprehensive research on any topic using the OpenAI Deep Research API. It automates prompt enhancement through interactive clarifying questions, saves research parameters, and executes deep research with web search capabilities. Use when the user asks for in-depth analysis, investigation, research summaries, or topic exploration.
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
# Deep Research Skill
## Purpose
This skill enables comprehensive, internet-enabled research on any topic using OpenAI's Deep Research API (o4-mini-deep-research model). It intelligently enhances user research prompts through interactive clarifying questions, ensures research parameters are saved for reproducibility, and executes deep research with full web search capabilities.
## When to Use This Skill
Trigger this skill when:
- User requests research on a specific topic
- User asks for analysis, investigation, or comprehensive information gathering
- User wants exploration of a subject with web search and reasoning
- User provides a brief research query that could be refined
- User wants to understand current state, trends, or comparisons in a field
Example user requests:
- "Research the most effective open-source RAG solutions with high benchmark performance"
- "What are the latest AI developments in 2025?"
- "I need a comprehensive analysis of distributed database systems"
- "Find best practices for implementing vector search"
- "Investigate how AI is impacting the software engineering industry"
## Workflow Overview
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Assessment: Prompt too brief?
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How to install
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/deep-research@sha256:db87af979ed530beThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.a3b1e15, 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 2 versions of this file, between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 81 days.
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| git:20260916.a3b1e15 latest | 2026-09-16 | a3b1e15 | 10,646 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260627.94fdd8b | 2026-06-27 | 94fdd8b | 10,615 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 (10646 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
naveedharri/benai-skills · 78 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vvfq366g5g5ghpnv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naveedharri/benai-skills/deep-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/db87af979ed530be7ef998037fc77d4c645bffd0183b224fc0b546716f688539
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