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Web Research

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pollinations·vlatest·ai-ml·MIT

Automates web research tasks, extracting data and insights from online sources based on provided queries.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add pollinations/pollinations --skill web-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

pollinations

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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 failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No undeclared network calls: failed

    Contacts 1 host that is neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: gen.pollinations.ai.

    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.

    Hosts contacted

    gen.pollinations.aiundeclared

    What it found

    • .claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh:184contacts gen.pollinations.ai
      curl -sS "https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/chat/completions" \

  • 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 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 pollinations/pollinations at b5bae6b280.

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

Commit
b5bae6b280
Manifest
.claude/skills/web-research/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 287 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill automates web research tasks, extracting data and insights from online sources based on provided queries. It leverages various search models like Google Gemini, Perplexity AI, and NomNom to retrieve information. By default, it runs both gemini-search and perplexity-fast in parallel for faster results. The skill requires curl to function correctly.

When to use it

  • Fact-checking claims by providing a statement to be verified with supporting sources.
  • Gathering general information about a topic or entity, such as "What is pollinations.ai?".
  • Comparing answers from different search models on the same query.
  • Quickly researching specific questions that require online data retrieval.

Key capabilities

  • Utilizes multiple search models: gemini-search, perplexity-fast, perplexity, and nomnom.
  • Runs queries in parallel for faster results (default behavior).
  • Allows users to specify a particular model using the --model flag.
  • Supports comparing responses from multiple models simultaneously with the --models flag.

Example prompts

  • ".claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh "What is pollinations.ai?""
  • ".claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh --model perplexity-fast "Fact-check this claim with sources""
  • ".claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh --models gemini-search,perplexity-fast "Compare answers""

Tips & gotchas

  • Authentication Required: You must provide an API key via the POLLINATIONS_API_KEY environment variable or a .env file. If not provided, the script will prompt for one.
  • Dependencies: Ensure that curl is installed on your system as this skill requires it to function.
  • Parallel Execution: When using multiple models with --parallel, be aware of potential rate limits and increased processing time.