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Account Research

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anthropics·vlatest·other·Apache-2.0

This skill quickly gathers key details about companies and accounts – vital for informed decision-making and strategic planning.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill account-research -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

anthropics

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins at da38ec1ee8.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
da38ec1ee8
Manifest
sales/skills/account-research/SKILL.md
Scanned
3 files, 288 lines
Copies in repo
2 — all of them scanned
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About this skill

The account-research skill enables AI agents to autonomously investigate and gather information about specific user accounts, organizations, or digital identities. It streamlines the data collection process by querying available public records and internal databases to build comprehensive profiles without manual intervention.

When to use it

  • Onboarding new clients where you need immediate background checks on their company structure and key personnel.
  • Investigating potential fraud risks by cross-referencing account details against known patterns or historical data.
  • Preparing for high-stakes negotiations by retrieving detailed financial history and past transaction records of the counterparty.
  • Conducting due diligence during mergers and acquisitions to verify asset ownership and regulatory compliance status.

Key capabilities

  • Automated retrieval of public and internal account metadata.
  • Synthesis of disparate data points into a unified organizational profile.
  • Identification of key stakeholders and their roles within the target entity.
  • Verification of account legitimacy through cross-referencing external sources.

Example prompts

  • "Research the corporate structure and recent leadership changes for Acme Corp over the last two years."
  • "Gather all available public records regarding the digital footprint of user ID 8492-XJ."
  • "Compile a risk assessment report on Vendor B by analyzing their past account interactions and financial disclosures."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure you have appropriate access permissions configured before initiating research on sensitive internal accounts to avoid data leakage. This skill relies on the availability of up-to-date records; if an entity has recently changed its digital presence, the retrieved information may require manual verification.