ase-task-research SKILL.md skillA
ase-task-research from rse/ase is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rse/ase/ase-task-research@git:20261017.dc7fa72Pins git:20261017.dc7fa72 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rse/ase
- Path
plugin/skills/ase-task-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261017.dc7fa72, committed Oct 17, 2026
- Size
- 16,978 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Research a topic in depth for the current or given task plan, by combining Internet/Web search with a grounding in the source artifacts of the project, and append the resulting research report to the "research" attachment of the task, optionally refining the plan by its recommendations. Use when the user wants to "research", "investigate", or "look into" a topic for a "task" or "plan".
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
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md
<purpose name="ase-task-research">
Research a Topic for a Task Plan
</purpose>
<expand name="getopt"
arg1="ase-task-research"
arg2="--services|-s=(all|perplexity|brave|exa|websearch)... --refine|-r --dry-run|-d --int-source-dir=">
$ARGUMENTS
</expand>
<objective>
*Research* a topic in depth for a task plan, grounded in both the
*Internet*/*Web* and the *source artifacts* of the project.
</objective>
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-format-task.md
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-format-meta.md
Procedure
---------
<define name="search-agent">
```text
Agent(
description: "Query Web Search Service: <arg1/>",
subagent_type: "ase:ase-meta-search",
prompt: <content/>,
run_in_background: false
)
```
</define>
1. **Determine Task and Topic:**
1. Set <topic><getopt-arguments/></topic> initially, with any
leading and trailing whitespace stripped. Inherit the always
existing <ase-task-id/>, <ase-session-id/>, and
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rse/ase/ase-task-research@sha256:8a34402c16ea397dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.dc7fa72, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 17, 2026.
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 (16978 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
rse/ase · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xqpehqffhlcofnve GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rse/ase/ase-task-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8a34402c16ea397d76437774f55c3a275e1ef12948a0009b0cc54b493b5e3873
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