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search-tips
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Fine to try.
By malob/nix-config (GitHub) · coding · 464 stars · scanned at commit 02235cf
This skill should be used when performing web research beyond a simple single search -- looking into topics, comparing options, investigating questions, finding recommendations, or any task where effective use of Exa, Firecrawl, and Reddit tools matters. Triggers on "research", "look into", "investigate", "compare", "find out about", "search for", "find information", "what do people think about", "what are the best", "look up", or multi-source search tasks. Also invocable explicitly by deep-res…
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
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Found in 31 places.
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- configs/claude/skills/search-tips/SKILL.md, line 60
- **Firecrawl CLI scrape** (`npx firecrawl-cli scrape "<url>" --only-main-content`) -- primary - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/SKILL.md, line 64
- **Firecrawl CLI map** (`npx firecrawl-cli map "<url>" --search "query"`) -- discover URLs - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/SKILL.md, line 152
form fills, escalate to `npx firecrawl-cli browser` (see `references/firecrawl-tips.md`). - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/academic-search.md, line 53
`npx firecrawl-cli search --categories research "{query}"` provides Google Scholar-like - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/academic-search.md, line 57
npx firecrawl-cli search --categories research "transformer attention mechanisms" --scrape --limit 5 - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/academic-search.md, line 58
npx firecrawl-cli search --categories research "RLHF alignment" --tbs qdr:y # past year - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/code-github.md, line 38
- **Firecrawl scrape** (`npx firecrawl-cli scrape "<url>"`) works well for GitHub issues, - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/code-github.md, line 67
`npx firecrawl-cli scrape "<url>" --only-main-content` to get the main content without - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 5
Run `npx firecrawl-cli <command> --help` to see all available options for a command. The - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 24
npx firecrawl-cli search "your query" --scrape --limit 5 - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 25
npx firecrawl-cli search "your query" --categories research # academic sources - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 26
npx firecrawl-cli search "your query" --sources news --tbs qdr:w # news, past week - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 27
npx firecrawl-cli search "site:docs.example.com auth API" # site-scoped - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 46
npx firecrawl-cli scrape "https://example.com/page" --only-main-content - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 47
npx firecrawl-cli scrape "https://example.com/page" --wait-for 3000 - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 48
npx firecrawl-cli scrape "https://url1" "https://url2" "https://url3" --only-main-content - configs/claude/skills/search-tips/references/firecrawl-tips.md, line 67
npx firecrawl-cli map "https://docs.example.com" --search "authentication"
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'search-tips' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'search-tips' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named search-tips already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/malob/nix-config' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '02235cfdc2d6b8b57813bca95f653c35698bc270' -- 'configs/claude/skills/search-tips' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'configs/claude/skills/search-tips' ~/.agents/skills/'search-tips' && 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/'search-tips' ~/.claude/skills/'search-tips' (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 |
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| 2026-11-09 | 02235cf | 85 |
| 2026-11-07 | d8eef80 | 85 |