Research skills

Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.

crw-dynamic-search

Programmatic web search and scrape with context isolation. Use for any research task where you need to search the web, filter results, and extract specific information — without flooding your context window with raw HTML and boilerplate. This is the single biggest token-saver in the crw skill set. Triggered by "search for", "look up", "find", "research", "what's the latest on", or any query that requires current web information. Also use when asked to "search and filter", "find the important parts", or any task where you suspect the raw output will be large (multi-page scrapes, news aggregation, competitive research).

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crw-extract

Extract a typed JSON object from one or more web pages against a JSON Schema with fastCRW. Use when you need structured data — "get the price and stock status", "extract all job listings as JSON", "pull structured fields from this page". Step 6 of the crw workflow ladder.

328 repo starsObserved in 1 repos
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crw-map

Discover all URLs on a website without fetching content — fast, low-cost URL inventory via sitemap.xml + link extraction BFS. Use when you need to know which pages exist before deciding what to scrape or crawl: "list all pages", "find URLs on this site", "discover links", "what pages does this site have", "map the site". Step 3 of the crw workflow ladder.

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crw-research

Find ALL the arXiv papers that answer a research question, using fastCRW's Firecrawl-compatible Research API. Use when the ask is to survey a literature, enumerate papers on a topic, find what a paper compares against or builds on, list the best models on a benchmark, or recover a paper from a vague description — "papers that do X", "what does X benchmark against", "best open model on Y", "find the paper that ...". Reaches 61.0% recall on the ArXivQA benchmark vs Firecrawl's Research Index 53.3%.

328 repo starsObserved in 1 repos
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crw-scrape

Scrape a single known URL into clean markdown / HTML / links / structured JSON with fastCRW. Use when you already have the URL and want the page content — "scrape", "grab", "fetch", "pull", "read this page", "get the content of". Handles JavaScript-rendered SPAs automatically. Step 2 of the crw workflow ladder.

328 repo starsObserved in 1 repos
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zoom-out

Use when orienting in an unfamiliar area — fans out exploration across structure, knowledge, and history, then synthesizes one orientation map.

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independent-research

Use when about to ask the user a factual question, propose a solution, diagnose an error, or choose between approaches. Triggers on: 'Do you have X installed?', 'What version?', 'Is X configured?', 'We should...', 'The fix is...', 'Options: 1...', 'Based on my understanding...', 'I believe X supports...'. Before deciding anything, spin up parallel subagents to WebSearch for current docs, community solutions, framework best practices, and GitHub issues. Your memory is stale — verify everything.

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daily-news-watcher

Persistent daily news monitoring backed by local SQLite and Markdown reports. Use when a user asks Codex to track named publications, fetch the last N hours of news, summarize recent articles by topic, deduplicate articles across runs, or maintain a personal newsroom that survives across sessions.

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personal-knowledge-capture

Capture local or explicitly provided web knowledge sources into cited Markdown notes. Use when a user asks Codex to watch a research folder, register local folders for later scans, summarize new or modified local Markdown/TXT/PDF/DOCX files, capture a provided URL, maintain SQLite state for personal knowledge capture, or generate searchable source-grounded daily notes.

324 repo starsObserved in 1 repos
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price-watcher

Persistent product price tracking for natural-language product requests. Use when a user asks to watch, track, monitor, compare, or report prices for a product, especially with a target price or threshold such as "Watch MacBook Pro M3 14-inch and tell me if it drops below $1200." Supports source discovery, Playwright/browser product checks, SQLite history, threshold comparison, and Markdown price reports.

324 repo starsObserved in 1 repos
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