web-research

95 / 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 domdoss/Warden (GitHub) · research · 172 stars · scanned at commit 7a4ccc8

Multi-source web research and fact-checking — search strategy, source triangulation, reading past paywalls/JS walls, citation of what was actually read, synthesis into an answer. Use for any 'look into / what's the state of / is it true that / compare' question that needs more than one page.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 4 places.

data/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 7- `WebSearch` first — 2–3 different phrasings when the first misses. Add the year for time-sensitive topics; add `site:` or `archived` when hunting a specific s
data/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 8- Open the top candidates with `WebFetch`. A page that fetches empty or minimal is usually JS-rendered — switch to `browser_navigate` + `browser_snapshot` for t
data/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 171. Find the CLAIM's original source first (`WebSearch` the exact claim string).

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data/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 182. Read it (`WebFetch`), quote what it actually says.

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'web-research' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'web-research' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named web-research already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/domdoss/Warden' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '7a4ccc82805668cc23b643665a5cccc477ef51bb' -- 'data/skills/web-research' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'data/skills/web-research' ~/.agents/skills/'web-research' && 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/'web-research' ~/.claude/skills/'web-research' (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
2026-11-13	`7a4ccc8`	95