research-compendium skillB
research-compendium is agent-read markdown (skill) from garrytan/gbrain: Deep-research a topic end to end and produce a permanent, reusable knowledge asset: archive every primary source verbatim (gated by the user's privacy/retention posture), write one 1:1 summary per source, then synthesize a single self-contained compendium page. Depth is a dial (base synthesis → grounded primaries → books + counter-canon → saturation), each level an idempotent superset of the one below. Distinct from data-research (structured trackers) and perplexity-research (web deltas): this p.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# research-compendium — Archive Everything, Summarize 1:1, Synthesize Once > **Convention:** see [conventions/brain-first.md](../conventions/brain-first.md) > for the lookup chain. Phase 1 is literally brain-first: search the brain > before the open web — the corpus may already be partly ingested. > > **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for > citation rules, quote fidelity, and back-link enforcement. > > **Convention:** see [_brain-filing-rules.md](../_brain-filing-rules.md) — > everything this skill writes files under `research/` per the research rule. ## What this is Turn a research question into a permanent brain asset: **find everything → archive every primary source → summarize each 1:1 → synthesize one self-contained compendium.** This is distinct from `data-research` (which extracts *structured data* into trackers). This skill produces *prose knowledge synthesis* — a definitive, fast-to-read, comprehensive reference page backed by an archived source corpus. Use when the user says "research X, read everything, save the sources, summarize each, and write me a compendium / definitive guide / …
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How to install
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/research-compendium@v1.0.0mdr add garrytan/gbrain/research-compendium@sha256:3394628692d6722bPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yzwp2v5zt6v34d7k)
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- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (23011 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 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
garrytan/gbrain · 30,275 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yzwp2v5zt6v34d7k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/research-compendium GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3394628692d6722bb73d3c019051f7c6d3f8cf2e8b42ecdfa4c36d2a7e8dbad5
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