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Web Research Assistant

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browser-act·vlatest·backend·MIT

Efficiently gathers relevant web data based on complex queries, summarizing findings and providing source links.

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Install on your platform

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 browser-act/skills --skill web-research-assistant --full-depth -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

browser-act

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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 2 hosts that are neither well-known infrastructure nor declared in the skill's frontmatter: mcp.browseract.com, www.browseract.com.

    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

    mcp.browseract.comundeclaredwww.browseract.comundeclared

    What it found

    • solutions/search-research/web-research-assistant/scripts/research.py:20contacts mcp.browseract.com
      MCP_SERVER_URL = "https://mcp.browseract.com/"
    • solutions/search-research/web-research-assistant/scripts/research.py:186contacts www.browseract.com
      print("Get your token from: https://www.browseract.com/reception/integrations")

  • 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 browser-act/skills at 11c057b03f.

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

Commit
11c057b03f
Manifest
solutions/search-research/web-research-assistant/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 386 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The web-research-assistant skill enables AI agents to perform online searches and retrieve information from websites. It can summarize articles, extract specific data points from webpages, and answer questions based on publicly available web content. This skill allows agents to go beyond their internal knowledge base and access real-time information.

When to use it

  • Competitive Analysis: Gather pricing and feature comparisons for competing products.
  • Market Research: Identify current trends and consumer sentiment related to a specific topic.
  • Fact Verification: Confirm details from other sources or provide supporting evidence for claims.
  • Current Events Updates: Provide summaries of breaking news stories and relevant articles.

Key capabilities

  • Web search functionality
  • Article summarization
  • Data extraction from webpages
  • Question answering based on web content

Example prompts

  • "Find the latest news about electric vehicle charging infrastructure."
  • "Summarize this article: [URL]"
  • "What is the current price of Bitcoin?"

Tips & gotchas

The accuracy of information retrieved depends heavily on the quality and reliability of the web sources. Always critically evaluate the results provided by the agent, as it may not distinguish between credible and unreliable websites.