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97 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By DavidSouther/ailly (GitHub) · research · 16 stars · scanned at commit 3b72cbd

Use when a research question requires publicly available information — external library documentation, language specifications, API references, community knowledge, or any topic not contained in the local codebase or internal documents. Applies when the answer lives on the public internet and must be fetched via web search or URL retrieval. Does not apply to codebase structure questions (use `research:codebase`) or internal document questions (use `research:internal`).

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Connects to the internet

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 10 places.

research/skills/public/SKILL.md, line 8Public research answers questions using `WebSearch` and `WebFetch` against the open internet. It expands each query into multiple variants before searching, fet
research/skills/public/SKILL.md, line 412. Run `WebSearch` for each variant.
research/skills/public/SKILL.md, line 434. `WebFetch` the top 2-3 URLs per variant (skip near-duplicate URLs).

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research/skills/public/references/augmented-search.md, line 3The one optional provider for the public stack. Built-in `WebSearch` is always available and answers the majority of public-research queries; an augmentation pr
research/skills/public/references/augmented-search.md, line 11This is the single conditional capability in the public contract. The two unconditional capabilities (`WebSearch`, `WebFetch`) are built in and described in the
research/skills/public/references/augmented-search.md, line 20**Fallback: built-in `WebSearch`.** When no augmentation MCP is reachable, fall back to the always-available built-in search. The wiring returns a typed Not-Ava
research/skills/public/references/augmented-search.md, line 25{ result: "not-available", capability: "augmented-search", reason: "no augmentation provider configured; falls back to built-in WebSearch" }
research/skills/public/references/augmented-search.md, line 47- If the probe finds no provider, mark *augmented search* Not-Available and confirm the built-in `WebSearch` fallback answers the same term.
research/skills/public/references/augmented-search.md, line 51- **No provider configured** — expected on most checkouts; mark Not-Available and use built-in `WebSearch`. This is the default state, not a failure.
research/skills/public/references/etiquette.md, line 5The core transport — `WebSearch` and `WebFetch` — is built in and needs no install. These rules are **policy** layered over that transport: who the project iden

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'public' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'public' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named public already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/DavidSouther/ailly' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '3b72cbd7d7d6d933ac8e173639b08c833d2a844a' -- 'research/skills/public' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'research/skills/public' ~/.agents/skills/'public' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'public' ~/.claude/skills/'public' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-12	`3b72cbd`	97