research-catalog SKILL.md skillA
research-catalog from flagrare/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add flagrare/agent-skills/research-catalog@git:20260611.9c42181Pins git:20260611.9c42181 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- flagrare/agent-skills
- Path
plugins/flagrare/skills/research-catalog/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260611.9c42181, committed Jun 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 22, 2026
- Size
- 9,816 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- none declared
Whenever you do real external research (WebFetch, WebSearch, or Explore-agent fetches of URLs outside the repo), catalog it in docs/research/ before sending the synthesis back to the user. Credits the sources, captures the findings, and creates a traceable link from the decision back to the 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
# Research catalog and credit > **No em-dashes.** Nothing this skill writes may contain an em-dash; use a comma, colon, or parentheses instead. Enforced by a repo hook that flags em-dashes in generated `.md`. See `/flagrare:write-docs`. External research is someone else's work. The papers, blog posts, vendor docs, and open-source projects we lean on were written by named humans (or named orgs), and the project owes them three things: visible credit, a usable citation back, and a record of which decision their work informed. This skill is the way the project pays that debt. It also pays a second debt, to the project's own future. ADRs say *what* was decided. Without a catalog of the research behind those decisions, the *why* drifts out of reach within months. This skill captures the evidence base alongside the decision, in a stable in-repo location, so a contributor six months from now can trace any non-obvious choice back to the work that justified it. ## When to invoke Run this skill **immediately after** a research session that pulled in external sources, and **before** the synthesis is sent back to the user. Sources count as "external" when they came from: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add flagrare/agent-skills/research-catalog@sha256:2815b41bdb18a147The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260611.9c42181, 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 2 versions of this file, between May 22, 2026 and Jun 11, 2026, about one every 20 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260611.9c42181 latest | 2026-06-11 | 9c42181 | 9,816 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.b33bded | 2026-05-22 | b33bded | 9,652 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 (9816 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
flagrare/agent-skills · 13 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zyo3yw3loyuzo3ty GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=flagrare/agent-skills/research-catalog GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2815b41bdb18a1475985558e0e66f6424a840367506c171a93661171cec2559b
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.