Research skills

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

BrightData

4-tier progressive web scraping that auto-escalates WebFetch to curl to Interceptor to Bright Data proxy for bot detection and CAPTCHAs, with single-URL and multi-page crawl modes, output as markdown. USE WHEN Bright Data, scrape URL, web scraping, bot detection, crawl site, CAPTCHA, can't access, site blocking, extract page content, scrape whole site, spider domain, convert URL to markdown, getting blocked. NOT FOR simple public content (use WebFetch directly), social platform scraping with named actors (use Apify), or real-Chrome bot bypass with logged-in sessions and zero CDP fingerprint (use Interceptor).

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FirstPrinciples

Physics-based reasoning framework (Musk methodology) that deconstructs a problem to irreducible fundamental truths, classifies every element as hard constraint, soft constraint, or assumption, then reconstructs the optimal solution from fundamentals alone. USE WHEN first principles, fundamental truths, challenge assumptions, real constraint, rebuild from scratch, start over, physics first, question everything, reasoning by analogy. NOT FOR structural feedback loops (use SystemsThinking).

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Harvest

Mines a single piece of content (URL, YouTube, article, text, file) for anything useful to LifeOS, ranks the findings, then ingests the content into the Knowledge Archive. USE WHEN harvest, harvest this, harvest <URL>, harvest <YouTube>, harvest this video, harvest this article, /harvest, /ha, mine this for the system, anything useful in this for us, what can LifeOS take from this, analyze this for LifeOS-usefulness, should we adopt anything from this. NOT FOR ingestion-only saves with no system-mining (use _HARVEST directly), broad multi-source upgrade or bookmark scans (use Upgrade / pu), or general research synthesis (use Research).

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IterativeDepth

Structured multi-angle exploration running 2-8 sequential passes over the same problem, each through a different scientific lens, to surface hidden requirements and edge cases invisible from one angle; each pass yields new ISC criteria. USE WHEN iterative depth, explore deeper, multi-angle analysis, surface hidden requirements, blind spot check, what am I missing. NOT FOR scope/zoom analysis (use ApertureOscillation).

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Knowledge

Manage the LifeOS Knowledge Archive — a curated, typed graph of People, Companies, Ideas, and Research notes with typed related: links; search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, and graph-navigate. USE WHEN knowledge, knowledge base, search knowledge, what do we know about, archive, harvest, knowledge status, develop note, add to knowledge, ingest, contradictions, knowledge graph, retrieve, mine conversations. NOT FOR session/ISA context recovery (use ContextSearch), published content semantic search across blog/newsletter/X/LinkedIn (use _CONTENTSEARCH), or one-shot URL/YouTube ingestion via the Arbol harvester pipeline (use _HARVEST).

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LocalIntelligence

Generic civic intelligence aggregator for any US city — daily local digest of construction permits, crime, new businesses, public officials, legislation, elections, arrests, and local news, keyed off principal's Hometown. Writes JSON consumed by Pulse LOCAL tab. Crime delegates to _CRIMESTATS. Workflows: DailyBrief, Construction, Crime, Business, Officials, Legislation, Elections, Arrests, News. USE WHEN local news, hometown news, council meeting, building permits, mayor, ballot measures, ordinance, recent arrests, civic intel, local digest. NOT FOR national news or arbitrary-city crime.

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PrivateInvestigator

Ethical people-finding and identity verification via parallel research agents across people-search sites, social media, public records, and reverse phone/email/image/username lookups, with confidence-scored results requiring 3+ matching identifiers. USE WHEN find person, locate person, reconnect, lost contact, old friend, reverse phone lookup, who owns this email, reverse image search, find by username, verify identity, people search, public-data background check, who is this caller. NOT FOR structured due-diligence or company/entity intelligence investigations (use _OSINT) or general web research synthesis (use Research).

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Research

Multi-agent web research with mandatory URL verification, confidence-tagged output, and four depth modes (quick to deep investigation). USE WHEN research, do research, quick research, extensive research, deep investigation, find information, investigate, extract alpha, analyze content, retrieve content, AI trends, enhance content, extract knowledge, web scraping, YouTube extraction, map landscape, competitive analysis, find it, find this, find this product, identify this, what is this, what's that thing, track down, locate, help me find, I can't find X online, can't find it online, source this — never substitute raw WebSearch/WebFetch for a multi-source find/identify/investigate request. NOT FOR people/company/entity deep background (use _OSINT), academic papers (use ArXiv), JSON entity extraction (use _PARSER), or content-adaptive wisdom extraction (use ExtractWisdom).

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Science

The scientific method as a universal problem-solving algorithm — goal-first, plural falsifiable hypotheses, designed experiments, and honest measurement, scaling from TDD to feature validation to MVP launch. USE WHEN think about, figure out, experiment, iterate, optimize, hypothesis, science, full cycle, quick diagnosis, structured investigation, how do we test, analyze results. NOT FOR multi-angle lens passes (use IterativeDepth).

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SystemsThinking

Structural analysis of complex systems — Iceberg model, Causal Loop feedback diagrams, archetype matching, Meadows leverage points, and concept maps — grounded in the premise that behavior is generated by structure. USE WHEN systems thinking, causal loop, feedback loops, archetypes, leverage points, iceberg model, fix the system, why does this keep happening, recurring problem, second-order effects. NOT FOR incident causal chains (use RootCauseAnalysis).

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