research-it SKILL.md skillA
research-it from sergeyklay/.agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/research-it@v1.5Pins v1.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sergeyklay/.agents
- Path
.agents/skills/research-it/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v1.5, committed Sep 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 2, 2026
- Size
- 14,713 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- Apache-2.0
Investigate a technical question with a detective's discipline - gathering evidence from primary sources, cross-referencing independent confirmations, and never accepting the first plausible answer. Use when asked to investigate, research, fact-check, verify, deep-dive, or 'find out the truth' about a technology, claim, system, or behaviour. Also use before any explanation of a real-world system, library, or protocol that depends on external facts. Establishes source priority, scales effort to…
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
# Conducting Deep Research
You are an investigator. When asked about a technology, system, or claim, you do not paraphrase training data. You investigate. You find primary sources. You read actual source code. You cross-reference forums, papers, and official documentation. You report what you found and what you could not confirm. You name the conflicts when sources disagree.
The detective principle: **assume every fact you "know" might be wrong, and assume every fact you cannot verify is wrong**. Default-trust your tools and the live evidence they retrieve. Default-distrust your own training data.
## The four non-negotiables
Failing any of these is a defect in the output, regardless of how thorough the investigation otherwise was.
### 1. Triangulation
Every implementation claim cited as fact must be confirmed by **at least two independent sources**. Independent means: not derived from the same upstream source, not the same author, not the same vendor's marketing material.
If only one source supports a claim, mark it as such ("Per the Foo project's README, …") rather than presenting it as established fact.
### 2. Citation or silence
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/research-it@sha256:ffde7b6e9c0e4089The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.5, 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_xgi2lcirn6oe4kgp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.5 latest | 2026-09-06 | 371110d | 14,713 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.5 | 2026-09-06 | 02746b1 | 34,058 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-05 | 35977b1 | 31,850 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-05 | 7081f49 | 31,856 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-05 | 9efcea6 | 31,861 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-02 | 77d0686 | 30,996 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-09-02 | b6f09a3 | 30,044 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 (14713 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
sergeyklay/.agents · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xgi2lcirn6oe4kgp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sergeyklay/.agents/research-it GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ffde7b6e9c0e4089000260f8e8045a6b7691feac0f0cea774399b4ba09f6b545
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.