Research and web content

You send the agent out to read the web and bring back sources.

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28 skills

Devs talked about 2 of these skills this week. A list ranked by devs starts at 5.

Hand-picked research skills

Send the agent out and get sources back: browser control, scraping, deep research passes, and turning a page or a document into text an agent can read.

  1. /browser-use

    Direct browser control via CDP for web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, screenshots, and site/app work.

    118k GitHub stars
  2. /research

    Investigate a question against high-trust primary sources and capture the findings as a Markdown file in the repo. Use when the user wants a topic researched, docs or API facts gathered, or reading legwork delegated to a background agent.

    287k GitHub stars
  3. /last30days

    Research what people actually say about any topic in the last 30 days. Pulls posts and engagement from Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web. Includes a doctor health check to diagnose broken or missing sources.

    64k GitHub stars
  4. /defuddle

    Extract clean Markdown from HTML pages with Defuddle CLI.

    49k GitHub stars
  5. Convert Word (.doc, .docx), PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), OpenDocument (.odt, .ods, .odp), RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF files to GitHub-Flavored Markdown. Use when a task needs the contents of an office document, spreadsheet, presentation, ebook, or PDF you cannot read directly.

    23k GitHub stars
  1. /scrape

    Pull data from a web page through the Aside browser — your real, already signed-in sessions. (gstack)

    136k GitHub stars
  2. /github-deep-research

    Conduct multi-round deep research on any GitHub Repo. Use when users request comprehensive analysis, timeline reconstruction, competitive analysis, or in-depth investigation of GitHub. Produces structured markdown reports with executive summaries, chronological timelines, metrics analysis, and Mermaid diagrams. Triggers on Github repository URL or open source projects.

    84k GitHub stars
  3. /deep-research

    Universal deep research agent team. 13-agent pipeline for rigorous academic research on any topic. 8 modes: full research, quick brief, paper review, lit-review, fact-check, three-way literature scan, Socratic guided research dialogue, and systematic review with optional meta-analysis. Covers research question formulation, Socratic mentoring, methodology design, systematic literature search, source verification, cross-source synthesis, risk of bias assessment, meta-analysis, APA 7.0 report compilation, editorial review, devil's advocate challenges, ethics review, and post-research literature monitoring. Triggers on: research, deep research, literature review, systematic review, meta-analysis, PRISMA, evidence synthesis, fact-check, WHY HOW WHAT papers, 3W literature scan, guide my research, help me think through, 研究, 深度研究, 文獻回顧, 文獻探討, 系統性回顧, 後設分析, 事實查核, 三段式文獻掃描, 引導我的研究, 幫我釐清, 幫我想想, 我不確定要研究什麼, 研究方向, 研究主題, 심층 연구, 문헌 조사, 체계적 문헌고찰, 메타분석, 사실 확인, 연구 방향을 잡아줘, 연구 주제 정하는 것을 도와줘, revisión de literatura, metaanálisis

    51k GitHub stars

More research skills, ranked by GitHub stars

  1. /hackernews-frontpage

    Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).

    136k GitHub stars
  2. /baoyu-url-to-markdown

    Fetch any URL and convert to markdown using baoyu-fetch CLI (Chrome CDP with site-specific adapters). Built-in adapters for X/Twitter, YouTube transcripts, Hacker News threads, and generic pages via Defuddle. Handles login/CAPTCHA via interaction wait modes. Use when user wants to save a webpage as markdown.

    27k GitHub stars
  3. /seo-firecrawl

    Full-site crawling, scraping, and site mapping via Firecrawl MCP. Use when user says "crawl site", "map site", "full crawl", "find all pages", "broken links", "site structure", "discover pages", "JS rendering", or needs site-wide analysis.

    19k GitHub stars
  4. /apify-ultimate-scraper

    Universal AI-powered web scraper for any platform. Scrape data from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Trends, Reddit, Airbnb, Yelp, and 15+ more platforms. Use for lead generation, brand monitoring, competitor analysis, influencer discovery, trend research, content analytics, audience analysis, review analysis, SEO intelligence, recruitment, or any data extraction task.

    2.4k GitHub stars
  5. /web-to-markdown

    Convert a web URL into cleaned Markdown with deterministic routing. Use when Codex needs to read article-like content from links and should apply source-aware fetch strategies: default to r.jina.ai for general pages (including X/Twitter), use defuddle.md for YouTube links, and use browser-impersonated extraction for WeChat/Zhihu/Feishu pages with Mozilla Readability cleanup.

    936 GitHub stars
  1. /wechat-article-fetch

    抓取微信公众号文章(mp.weixin.qq.com)到本地。当用户发来公众号链接要求"抓取""保存""存下来""归档""留痕""转成 Markdown"时使用。默认双产出:Markdown 整理版(供检索引用)+ HTML 原件保真归档(离线双击可读,供回溯核对)。默认 HTTP 直抓零依赖,失败自动切浏览器兜底。

    723 GitHub stars
  2. /firecrawl-agent

    Autonomously navigate websites and extract structured data across pages. Use when the task requires navigation or no suitable ready-made workflow or data provider covers it.

    647 GitHub stars
  3. /firecrawl-crawl

    Bulk-extract many pages from one site or section. Use for "crawl", "everything under /docs", or content spanning linked pages.

    647 GitHub stars
  4. /firecrawl-download

    Save a site or section as local files (markdown, screenshots). Use for "download the site", offline docs, or a local copy for reference.

    647 GitHub stars
  5. /gs-fulltext

    Get full-text access links for a Google Scholar paper - PDF, DOI, Sci-Hub, and publisher links. Use when user wants to read or download a paper's full text.

    529 GitHub stars
  6. /gs-navigate-pages

    Navigate Google Scholar search result pages. Use when user wants to see more results or go to a specific page.

    529 GitHub stars
  7. /tavily-crawl

    Crawl websites and extract content from multiple pages via the Tavily CLI. Use this skill when the user wants to crawl a site, download documentation, extract an entire docs section, bulk-extract pages, save a site as local markdown files, or says "crawl", "get all the pages", "download the docs", "extract everything under /docs", "bulk extract", or needs content from many pages on the same domain. Supports depth/breadth control, path filtering, semantic instructions, and saving each page as a local markdown file.

    488 GitHub stars
  8. /tavily-extract

    Extract clean markdown or text content from specific URLs via the Tavily CLI. Use this skill when the user has one or more URLs and wants their content, says "extract", "grab the content from", "pull the text from", "get the page at", "read this webpage", or needs clean text from web pages. Handles JavaScript-rendered pages, returns LLM-optimized markdown, and supports query-focused chunking for targeted extraction. Can process up to 20 URLs in a single call.

    488 GitHub stars
  9. /github-trending

    Fetch and display GitHub trending repositories and developers. Use when building dashboards showing trending repos, discovering popular projects, or tracking GitHub trends. Triggers on GitHub trending, trending repos, popular repositories, GitHub discover.

    285 GitHub stars
  10. /x-twitter-scraper

    X (Twitter) data extraction and scraping. Use when asked to scrape tweets, extract followers, search Twitter/X users, download media from tweets, monitor X accounts, or analyze Twitter engagement. Triggers on twitter, x.com, tweet, follower, following, retweet, quote tweet, scrape, OSINT.

    285 GitHub stars

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