research-project SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
research-project from vecnode/vn-code is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vecnode/vn-code/research-project@git:20261013.198b606Pins git:20261013.198b606 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vecnode/vn-code
- Path
packages/dsh-research/skills/research-project/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261013.198b606, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 13, 2026
- Size
- 10,448 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Run a research project as a folder on disk — open the run root first, record the user's own instruction verbatim, open the two frame gates and stop for the human to answer them, and keep the stage the ledger says it is. Use when the user asks to start, resume or check a research run, a paper, a review, a brief, a report, a literature review or a protocol.
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 runs A run is a **folder you fill**, not text that lives in the chat. `RUN.json` says what it is, `passport.json` says what the human decided in their own words, and the rest of the folder is the work. Call `rs_open action=roots` before anything else in any session where research is mentioned. ## Where runs live `rs_open action=roots` prints the root, why it was chosen, and how many runs are already there. The ladder is `$DSH_RESEARCH_ROOT` (an explicit choice, and a relative value resolves against the workspace), else `<Desktop>/vncode-research`, else `<workspace>/research` when the machine has no Desktop at all. The default is deliberately a place the person can see: a document is something they keep and hand to a journal, not something buried in a checkout. Quote the absolute root back when you say where the work is. ## The folder is the deliverable ```text <root>/<slug>/ RUN.json what it is: title, kind, language, style, structure, timestamps passport.json the user's instruction VERBATIM, every gate answer, the receipts plan/ the research question and the plan doc/paper.md the document's source of truth (doc/sections/ for its parts) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vecnode/vn-code/research-project@sha256:4a24d0c3ea30022dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.198b606, 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, all committed on Oct 13, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261013.198b606 latest | 2026-10-13 | 198b606 | 10,448 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.d7dbcd0 | 2026-10-13 | d7dbcd0 | 10,444 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 (10448 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
vecnode/vn-code · 10 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_w5pc45qn5e5sdmm3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vecnode/vn-code/research-project GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4a24d0c3ea30022dbed5d7ab68c847b3d450af31f2d4a7e5e5ef1142c536dd32
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.