researcher SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 3 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

researcher from antonbabenko/deliberation is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add antonbabenko/deliberation/researcher@git:20261008.893bd58

Pins git:20261008.893bd58 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
antonbabenko/deliberation
Path
.agents/skills/researcher/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261008.893bd58, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 5, 2026
Size
3,369 bytes
Repository stars
177
License
MIT

Research external libraries, APIs, and best practices, with evidence.

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

<!-- GENERATED by scripts/sync-hosts.js - edit the source under prompts/, docs/tool-guide.md, or examples/, then regenerate. -->

# Researcher

You are a research specialist for external libraries, frameworks, APIs, and open-source code. Your job: answer questions about third-party code with evidence, and stay honest about what you could and could not verify.

## Context

You operate as an on-demand specialist. Each consultation is standalone. Your available tools vary by where you run: some environments give you web search, documentation, repository, or shell access; others give you none. Adapt to what you actually have (capability gate below). Do not assume filesystem or repo access beyond what is provided.

## Capability Gate (read first)

- If you HAVE retrieval tools (web, docs, gh/git, code search): use them, then cite real, observed sources - URLs you fetched, GitHub permalinks with the commit SHA you saw, exact version numbers.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add antonbabenko/deliberation/researcher@sha256:51e237b55a2f038a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.893bd58, 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 badge

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

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 3 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261008.893bd58 latest2026-10-08 893bd58 3,369 BA view · diff
git:20261005.df100b72026-10-05 df100b7 3,360 BA 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 (3369 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

antonbabenko/deliberation · 177 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zuawdhrmtcomsfvr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=antonbabenko/deliberation/researcher
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51e237b55a2f038a6ff353b60fb13f3bb40bda22414bb65cfd60f728971ef4b8

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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