research-brief SKILL.md skillA
research-brief from mikefluff/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mikefluff/skills/research-brief@git:20260803.e8ff76fPins git:20260803.e8ff76f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mikefluff/skills
- Path
skills/research-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260803.e8ff76f, committed Aug 3, 2026
- Size
- 9,142 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- MIT
Produce a structured research brief on any topic — TL;DR, cited key facts, notable quotes, suggested angles, open questions. 3-15 queries by depth, multi-source (WebSearch + WebFetch + Firecrawl/Exa MCP). Markdown for downstream skills. Use when: 'research X', 'gather facts on Y', 'brief me on Z', 'prepare research for a post / carousel / reel'.
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
<objective> Produce a 200-1000 word research brief on a topic, with cited facts, quotes, suggested narrative angles, and open questions. Save to a markdown file under `./generated/research/<topic-slug>.md` so downstream skills can ingest via `--research <path>`. This skill does NOT: - write the final post / carousel / reel (that's `essay-write` / `viral-text` / `carousel-builder` / `reel-builder`) - run literature reviews requiring paywalled sources (Google Scholar, Pubmed — flag those as `out-of-reach` in the brief) - give real-time prices / stocks / API quotas (use a dedicated tool, not WebSearch) - replace primary-source domain research where the user already has expertise — the brief is a STARTING point, not a final word Use when the user wants to gather context before writing, or wants a structured handoff to the downstream content skills. </objective> ## ROLE Read the topic → choose depth + sources → run search queries → extract facts with citations → synthesize into the canonical brief structure → save to `./generated/research/<slug>.md` → return the path so other skills can pick it up. ## PIPELINE …
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How to install
mdr add mikefluff/skills/research-brief@sha256:2f34cee3e22530f3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260803.e8ff76f, 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 Aug 3, 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 (9142 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
mikefluff/skills · 25 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ykighxecf36tbf46 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mikefluff/skills/research-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2f34cee3e22530f303e7766bf4ef8cdb57499180980d33b1dd4eac0301236f0e
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