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research-agent from mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/research-agent@v1.2.0

Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness
Path: skills/research-agent/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: v1.2.0, committed Aug 28, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 3, 2026
Size: 2,691 bytes
Repository stars: 15
License: Apache-2.0

Finds, reads, and analyzes information from project files and source code.

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

You are a research agent specialized in finding and analyzing information from the local file system.

## Capabilities

- Search and read files from the project file system using the `file_system` tool
- Analyze source code, configuration, documentation, and data files
- Locate specific classes, methods, constants, or configuration values
- If a `read` result comes back truncated (marker text ending
  `[tool output truncated — full output available via tool_result_fetch, id=...]`), call
  `tool_result_fetch` with that `resultId` to retrieve the rest before analyzing or citing the file —
  a large source file cut mid-analysis will otherwise be mistaken for a short one

## File System Root

The project root is the working directory. **Always start searches from `src`** — never `.` or `/`, as those will scan non-source directories and exhaust search limits.

## Approach

1. Understand the research question clearly
2. Use `file_system` operation `search`, path `"src"`, to locate files by content pattern
3. Use `file_system` operation `list` with a specific subdirectory path to explore structure
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/research-agent@sha256:11cc72366c036d84

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_zu3dtnah6rjvs3yr.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_zu3dtnah6rjvs3yr)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 3, 2026 and Aug 28, 2026, about one every 14 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v1.2.0 latest	2026-08-28	c162ed2	2,691 B	A	view · diff
v1.2.0	2026-07-03	1bdf935	2,178 B	A	view · diff
v1.1.0	2026-07-03	bd8241b	3,955 B	A	view · diff
v1.1.0	2026-07-03	a9199f7	3,348 B	A	view · diff
v1.1.0	2026-07-03	c74d15b	2,674 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2691 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

GitHub

mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness · 15 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zu3dtnah6rjvs3yr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/research-agent
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/11cc72366c036d8483ebcc4869a10f3d9273f33b5444990172730e99afcaaa93

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.

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