Web Research

Name: Web Research
Author: merit-systems

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by merit-systems · vlatest · Repository

Automates web research on merit systems, policies, and best practices from authoritative sources for comprehensive analysis.

Install on your platform

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Run in terminal (recommended)

terminal

claude mcp add merit-systems-web-research npx -- -y @trustedskills/merit-systems-web-research

Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json

~/.claude/settings.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "merit-systems-web-research": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@trustedskills/merit-systems-web-research"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.

About This Skill

What it does

This skill automates web research on merit systems, policies, and best practices using tools accessed through x402 APIs. It provides access to both neural search (Exa) for understanding meaning and semantic relationships within content, and web scraping capabilities (Firecrawl) for extracting data from websites. Crucially, it utilizes specific endpoints provided by enrichx402.com, which are distinct from the native APIs of the underlying providers.

When to use it

Semantic Web Search: When you need to understand the meaning and context behind web content, rather than just matching keywords.
Finding Similar Pages: To discover pages with similar content or themes to a given URL.
Extracting Clean Text: When you require clean, formatted text extracted from URLs for analysis or summarization.
Quick Fact Lookup: For quickly finding factual answers based on web content.
Scraping Complex Websites: To extract data from websites that are blocked or heavily reliant on JavaScript rendering.

Key capabilities

Neural Search (Exa): Semantic web search understanding meaning and context.
Find Similar Pages (Exa): Identifies pages similar to a provided URL.
Text Extraction (Exa): Extracts clean text from URLs.
Direct Answers (Exa): Provides factual answers based on content found online.
Web Scraping (Firecrawl): Scrapes individual web pages and converts them into Markdown format.
Search with Scraping (Firecrawl): Combines search functionality with scraping of results.

Example prompts

"Find similar pages to [URL]"
"What are the key policies regarding merit systems in California?"
"Scrape this webpage and convert it to Markdown: [URL]"
“Answer this question based on information available online: What is the average salary for a software engineer?”

Tips & gotchas

API Endpoint Awareness: You must use the exact URLs provided by enrichx402.com (e.g., https://enrichx402.com/api/exa/search). Guessing paths will result in errors. Use x402.discover_api_endpoints(url="https://enrichx402.com") to get the correct paths if needed.
Wallet Setup: Requires proper installation and wallet setup as described in rules/getting-started.md.

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Details

Version: vlatest
License
Author: merit-systems
Installs: 31

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