web-research

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By phuetz/code-buddy (GitHub) · coding · 51 stars · scanned at commit 7b77f46

Autonomous multi-source web research: fetch several web pages, extract their main content, and synthesize a cited Markdown brief. Use whenever the user wants to research a topic, gather and compare sources, or produce a referenced write-up from the web.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 2 places.

cowork/.claude/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 59python3 - <<'PY'
.mcp.json, line 4"command": "buddy",

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

cowork/.claude/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 60import urllib.request, ssl
cowork/.claude/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 71req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (research)"})
cowork/.claude/skills/web-research/SKILL.md, line 72html = urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=20, context=ctx).read().decode("utf-8", "replace")

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 1 place.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json, line 5"description": "Drive Code Buddy, the multi-provider AI coding agent (64 providers, local Ollama at $0), from Claude Code: the skill teaches headless one-shot r

Safer alternatives

Low-risk skills in the same category (coding) that look related. Check that one does what you need.

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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/phuetz/code-buddy' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '7b77f46ac74f922d8778a660c1270da746bd0574' -- 'cowork/.claude/skills/web-research' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'cowork/.claude/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
2026-11-07	`7b77f46`	75