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web-research-kb-refresh skillA

web-research-kb-refresh is agent-read markdown (skill) from d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook: Refresh a project knowledge base from web research with strict tool-call budgets, cross-referenced sources, atomic file swaps, and rollback-on-failure. Use when refreshing a KB-backed analysis (vendor facts, compliance posture, market data, security advisories), running long web-research workflows that must be predictable in cost and time, or designing any "regenerate-from-the-web" command. Generalizes the /facts-update pattern of capping web-tool calls per unit of work, keeping research separat.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/web-research-kb-refresh@git:20260510.2cbe6c1
Exact content
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/web-research-kb-refresh@sha256:fae53e195a8f8f2b

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14234 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

GitHub

d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vvqptcwkli37s4xs
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/web-research-kb-refresh
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fae53e195a8f8f2b8d61cd2cb91faa4cc28af9bd43f6423abc3403ec44049d31

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