pi-research SKILL.md skillA
pi-research from lincoln504/pi-research is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add lincoln504/pi-research/pi-research@git:20261030.ed1b5faPins git:20261030.ed1b5fa in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- lincoln504/pi-research
- Path
agent-skill/pi-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 33
- Latest version
- git:20261030.ed1b5fa, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 5, 2026
- Size
- 8,521 bytes
- Repository stars
- 66
- License
- MIT
Multi-agent web research for any coding agent. Use for anything requiring current information from the internet — news, trends, product/service/company facts, statistics, people, places, events, APIs, library behavior, or 'what is X / how does X work' questions. Also use to search a local knowledge store of previously researched findings before doing live research. Powered by the pi-research engine (search, stealth scraping, security databases, Stack Exchange). Not for reading local files…
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
# pi-research skill
Run via your shell tool — the **Bash** tool in Claude Code, whatever equivalent
your harness exposes elsewhere. `<SKILL_DIR>` is this skill's own directory:
substitute the absolute path your harness reports for this skill (some harnesses
expose it as `{baseDir}`).
```
node "<SKILL_DIR>/scripts/run.mjs" research "<query>" --depth 1
node "<SKILL_DIR>/scripts/run.mjs" knowledge "<query>" ["<q2>" ...]
node "<SKILL_DIR>/scripts/run.mjs" status [--json]
```
- **stdout** = Markdown report — read and cite it.
- **stderr** = progress + errors — relay errors, suppress routine progress.
- **Always set a generous command timeout** so a stalled run can't block forever, but
leave plenty of headroom — a real run should finish well inside it:
`knowledge` 600000ms · `research --depth 1` 1500000ms · `--depth 2` 1800000ms · `--depth 3` 2400000ms.
These already include headroom for the run to sit **queued** behind other runs on a
busy machine (see below); don't shorten them on the assumption a slot is free.
- **Background — use ONE mechanism, never two.** If your shell tool has its own
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add lincoln504/pi-research/pi-research@sha256:7d19a25c189dea49The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.ed1b5fa, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_x5lljuuiu422373e)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 33 versions of this file, between Sep 5, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261030.ed1b5fa latest | 2026-10-30 | ed1b5fa | 8,521 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.9dc968d | 2026-10-26 | 9dc968d | 8,521 B | A | view · diff |
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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 (8521 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
lincoln504/pi-research · 66 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_x5lljuuiu422373e GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lincoln504/pi-research/pi-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7d19a25c189dea49ced642d91f13a7b744bd5b6677d20b4ead6a5aaeb5aeda96
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.