research SKILL.md skillA
research from sethgammon/citadel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/research@git:20260810.9641280Pins git:20260810.9641280 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sethgammon/citadel
- Path
skills/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260810.9641280, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 13,396 bytes
- Repository stars
- 929
- License
- MIT
Focused research investigations. Converts questions into structured findings with confidence levels and source citations. Single agent by default; with --parallel (or when the question decomposes into 3+ independent angles) it spawns scout agents whose findings are compressed into a unified brief. Does not make decisions; produces information that informs the next step.
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# /research — Focused Investigation ## When to Use - Evaluating whether a dependency has a newer version or has been superseded - Finding community best practices for a specific technical problem - Reading official documentation for an API or library - Investigating how other projects solve a similar problem - Checking if a pattern used in the codebase has known issues - Any time you need external information before making a decision **Don't use when:** you need to act on findings immediately (use /marshal which calls /research internally). ## Modes **Single (default):** one agent, 2-4 queries, 3-6 sources. Steps 1-5 below. **Parallel (`/research --parallel`):** scout agents investigate independent angles of the same question using Fleet wave mechanics. See Parallel Mode below. Without the flag, prefer parallel mode (and say so in the plan) when the question naturally decomposes into 3+ independent angles: evaluating multiple competing technologies or approaches, distinct sub-questions that don't depend on each other, or time-sensitive research where parallel execution matters. If the question is narrow and focused, stay single-agent. Don't parallelize …
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How to install
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/research@sha256:575967a77ddc0136The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260810.9641280, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20260810.9641280 latest | 2026-08-10 | 9641280 | 13,396 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.f7c5ded | 2026-08-09 | f7c5ded | 13,399 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.aac620b | 2026-08-04 | aac620b | 13,243 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.387545e | 2026-07-21 | 387545e | 13,246 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.c320de7 | 2026-07-21 | c320de7 | 12,304 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
sethgammon/citadel · 929 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wcdy2t6bxezydxrx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sethgammon/citadel/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/575967a77ddc0136a23edeef09597eaaea09914eb79dac130c93d7b9276a2807
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