web-research-kb-refresh SKILL.md skillA
web-research-kb-refresh from d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/web-research-kb-refresh@git:20260510.2cbe6c1Pins git:20260510.2cbe6c1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook
- Path
skills/web-research-kb-refresh/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260510.2cbe6c1, committed May 10, 2026
- Size
- 14,234 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
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…
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
# Web-Research KB Refresh Operational pattern for **refreshing a knowledge base from the web** with predictable cost, time, and provenance. Generalizes the consulting-toolkit `/facts-update` pattern so it applies to any KB-backed analysis (vendor facts, compliance posture, market data, security advisories, library/API references, etc.). **Companion rules:** - `015-context-engineering.mdc` - prompt packing, retrieval, compaction - `120-utilities.mdc` - the underlying tools (lynx, curl, jq, ripgrep) - `316-zero-trust.mdc` - audit and observability principles --- ## When to invoke Use when the user asks to: - "Refresh the KB" / "update the facts" / "regenerate from the web" - "Pull current pricing / docs / advisories" for a list of items - "Re-research vendor X across the catalog" - Build a new long-running command that calls web tools at scale Do *not* use for: - One-off queries (just call `WebSearch` / `WebFetch` directly) - Real-time streams (this pattern is batch-style) - Anything where the answers are not stored in a structured KB --- ## The Five Golden Rules 1. **Hard cap per unit of work** - state it up front; refuse to exceed it. …
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How to install
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/web-research-kb-refresh@sha256:fae53e195a8f8f2bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260510.2cbe6c1, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 10, 2026.
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Source
d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · 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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