researching-web
Search the web using Perplexity AI. Use when needing to search, look up, research, find current information, best practices, compare technologies, or answer factual questions about tools and libraries.
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill researching-webIs this agent skill safe to install?
- Gen Agent Trust Hubpass
The skill allows searching the web via Perplexity AI. It is generally safe but carries a common risk of indirect prompt injection because it processes untrusted information from the internet without specific instructions on how to handle potentially malicious content within search results.
- Socketpass
No alerts
- Snykwarn
Risk: MEDIUM · 1 issue
- Runlayerpass
1 file scanned · No issues
- ZeroLeakspass
Score: 93/100 · 2 sections analyzed
What does this agent skill do?
Web Research with Perplexity
Use mcp__perplexity-ask__perplexity_ask for web search.
When to Use
- Best practices and recommendations
- Current information (releases, news)
- Comparisons between technologies
- Factual questions about tools/libraries
Usage
{
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Your research question" }]
}
Tips
- Be specific: "Go error handling best practices 2024"
- Include context: "Redis vs Memcached for session storage"
- Ask comparisons: "Pros and cons of gRPC vs REST"
Gotchas
- Search quality varies by phrasing — "X best practices" returns curated guides; "X mistakes" returns blog rants. Same intent, very different results.
- Multi-source synthesis doesn't auto-detect contradictions — facts from sources A and B may directly contradict; the skill doesn't flag this.
- Date filtering ("last year") is unreliable — search engines may include cached older content that was indexed recently.
- Rate limits on the underlying search API silently truncate results — a "no results" finding may actually be a quota issue.
- Geo-targeting: same query from different IPs returns different results — VPN switches mid-research produce inconsistent corpus.
- NOT FOR official API/library reference — for those use
looking-up-docs(Context7); this skill is for trends, comparisons, news.
How can the creator link this skill?
Add the canonical catalog link to the repository README so users can inspect current installs and available audits. The publishing guide covers the complete discovery path.
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