research SKILL.md skillA
research from timharris707/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add timharris707/skills/research@git:20260819.b5bf4cdPins git:20260819.b5bf4cd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- timharris707/skills
- Path
skills/investigate/research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260819.b5bf4cd, committed Aug 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 6, 2026
- Size
- 4,796 bytes
- Repository stars
- 44
- License
- MIT
Run an autonomous research lane against primary sources, ending in cited findings and, when the missing facts are human-held, a questionnaire. Use for investigations of vendor materials, regulations, upstream repos, recorded calls, or any fact-finding that should run fire-and-report.
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
# Research A research lane runs **autonomously** (fire-and-report): it investigates against primary sources (vendor materials, regulations, upstream repos, recorded calls, live systems you have access to) and ends in a **cited findings file** linked from the driving ticket. It runs two ways: as a `research` ticket inside a decision map (see the decision-map skill), and standalone for any investigation worth a recorded answer. ## Contract 1. **Primary sources only.** Read the actual material: the vendor doc, the upstream code, the regulation text, the recording. Secondary summaries are leads, not evidence. 2. **The deliverable is a findings file**, tracked in the repo's docs (default `docs/research/<topic>.md`, or the findings home the team-workflow binding doc names). Material that is PII-bearing or otherwise local-only goes in a git-ignored location instead; the findings file there is still linked from the ticket by path. 3. **Findings cite their sources inline.** A claim without a source is a hypothesis and is labeled as one. Distinguish clearly: what the source says, what you infer, what remains unknown. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add timharris707/skills/research@sha256:6d658145742642a0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.b5bf4cd, 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 4 versions of this file, between Aug 6, 2026 and Aug 19, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260819.b5bf4cd latest | 2026-08-19 | b5bf4cd | 4,796 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.22f28fc | 2026-08-11 | 22f28fc | 4,852 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.b625c57 | 2026-08-08 | b625c57 | 4,890 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.2e6ae94 | 2026-08-06 | 2e6ae94 | 2,370 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 (4796 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
timharris707/skills · 44 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_z4es6fpgtgqy4dok GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=timharris707/skills/research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6d658145742642a060a784afe7891795ec2a06cd836da488017d83e1a53005e7
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.
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