Web Research
Juncai22/spring-ai-agent-learning
A skill your agent uses for requests related to web research; it provides a structured approach to conducting comprehensive web research
Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents.
Install Web Research
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills web-research --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research .claude/skills/web-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "web-research" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research into .claude/skills/web-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-research", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-researchType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills web-research --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research .agents/skills/web-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "web-research" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research into .agents/skills/web-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-research", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills web-research --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research .cursor/skills/web-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "web-research" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research into .cursor/skills/web-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-research", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git --path skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills web-research --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research .gemini/skills/web-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "web-research" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research into .gemini/skills/web-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-research", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills web-researchInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research .github/skills/web-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "web-research" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research into .github/skills/web-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-research", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills web-research --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research .opencode/skills/web-research && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "web-research" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills/tree/main/skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research into .opencode/skills/web-research/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-research", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
web-research- GitHub stars
- 4.6k
- Token cost
- ~819 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 325 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 383
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents.
- Works in 3 steps: Create and Save Research Plan → Delegate to Research Subagents → Synthesize Findings
- The user asks to research a topic online
- SKILL.md covers Research Process and Best Practices
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Web Research is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents. Use when the user asks to research a topic online, search the web, look something up, find current information, compare options, or produce a research report.
Its SKILL.md is about 820 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Deep research, Subagents and Web search. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库，覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…
When your agent uses it
- The user asks to research a topic online
- Look something up
- Find current information
- Compare options
Example prompts
- “Use the web-research skill to search multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents”
- “/web-research”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Create and Save Research Plan
- Delegate to Research Subagents
- Synthesize Findings
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Web Research loads about 819 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 325 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 325 words (~819 tokens).
“Before delegating to subagents, you MUST:”
- name
- web-research
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8
Compare with similar skills
Web Research next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Research this skillbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.6k | — | ~819 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Web ResearchJuncai22/spring-ai-agent-learning | 124 | 2 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Deep Researchasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks | 69k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC0-1.0 | |
| Deep Web Research Methodbytedance/deer-flow | 84k | 4 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Bmad Deep Recondelorenj/mcp-server-trello | 445 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Deep Research Teammalob/nix-config | 463 | — | ~5.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Web Research
What does Web Research do?
Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents. Web Research is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents.
When should I use Web Research?
Web Research fits situations like: the user asks to research a topic online; look something up; find current information; compare options.
How do I install Web Research in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/web-research in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Web Research in Codex?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/67-econfin-workflow-toolkit/web-research in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/web-research in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Web Research in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill web-research -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/web-research, .gemini/skills/web-research, .github/skills/web-research and .opencode/skills/web-research in your project.
What does Web Research need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Web Research is instructions for the agent only.
Does Web Research access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Web Research safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Web Research use?
Web Research has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does Web Research use?
About 819 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Web Research?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Web Research: Web Research (Juncai22/spring-ai-agent-learning, 124 stars), Deep Research (asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, 69k stars), Deep Web Research Method (bytedance/deer-flow, 84k stars) and Bmad Deep Recon (delorenj/mcp-server-trello, 445 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Web Research?
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.