search-first 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.

search-first from shimo4228/search-first is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add shimo4228/search-first/search-first@git:20261008.3d00282

Pins git:20261008.3d00282 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
shimo4228/search-first
Path
skills/search-first/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261008.3d00282, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 19, 2026
Size
8,194 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Search the live web, registries and primary sources at decision time and report what exists outside. Use when choosing a library or tool, looking for a prior implementation, checking whether a paper or post applies here, reading what an official spec does now, surveying current practice, or checking a claim against its source.

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

# /search-first — Look Outside, Report, Let the Caller Pick

The searcher reports what exists outside and how it differs from our situation. The
caller — the main loop, a build session, an RFC author — reads the report and decides what
to adopt, adopt in part, or leave. An established candidate that matches the need is adopted
by default; adopt-in-part means taking the library's code for one piece (its parser, its data
model) inside our own control flow, and a piece that transfers is worth the search (RFC-0022).
Building our own is chosen when the report names the gap no candidate fills.

## 0. State the question in text

Before the first tool call, write 2–3 sentences of plain assistant text: the question, which
row(s) of the table below it belongs to, and the constraints (language, existing deps,
license, budget). Tool arguments may mirror this text; the chat text is what lets the user
redirect before effort is spent.

When the need is code to write — an adapter, an API client, a parser, a utility — state it as
a Library / tool choice: which established library already does this. Asking which endpoint
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add shimo4228/search-first/search-first@sha256:d77bb80a54d5df44

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.3d00282, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_wnnisezbdvztd34r.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wnnisezbdvztd34r)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 5 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261008.3d00282 latest2026-10-08 3d00282 8,194 BA view · diff
git:20261008.a4231d12026-10-08 a4231d1 8,885 BA view · diff
git:20261007.a6235c72026-10-07 a6235c7 8,752 BA view · diff
git:20260926.3d287622026-09-26 3d28762 7,299 BA view · diff
git:20260919.cf3974d2026-09-19 cf3974d 6,509 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (8194 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

shimo4228/search-first · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-10 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wnnisezbdvztd34r
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=shimo4228/search-first/search-first
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d77bb80a54d5df44322d9731758777b01d81f333b4e2fca472dd176597a79a5a

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.

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