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researching-web

researching-web

github.com/julianobarbosaProductivity14198 installsUpdated 2d ago
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About researching-web

researching-web is a skill that directs an agent to use Perplexity for web research. It suits questions about current information, recommendations, comparisons, and factual details, and notes limitations such as inconsistent sources and unreliable date filters.

Key features

  1. 01Search the web through Perplexity
  2. 02Research current news and releases
  3. 03Compare technologies and approaches
  4. 04Account for search and synthesis limitations

Use cases

  1. 01Find recent information about a tool or library
  2. 02Gather best practices and recommendations
  3. 03Compare technologies for a project choice
  4. 04Research trends while checking for conflicting sources

MCP support

The skill invokes `mcp__perplexity-ask__perplexity_ask` to perform web searches.

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill researching-web

After installing, type/researching-webin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

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.

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