Kol Discovery

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Someone wants to find influencers in X space
• Who are the KOLs for Y industry

Example prompts

• “find influencers in X space”
• “who are the KOLs for Y industry.”
• “/kol-discovery”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in APIFY_API_TOKEN

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Intake
2. 2Generate Domain Keywords
3. 3Run KOL Discovery Pipeline
4. 4Review & Refine
5. 5Output

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c650c6d. 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

  Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • python3

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • linkedin.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • APIFY_API_TOKEN

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Kol Discovery loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 591 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~99

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

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

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:149

  I token** — set as `APIFY_API_TOKEN` in `.env`

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from gooseworks-ai/goose-skills at commit c650c6d, republished under its MIT licence (© gooseworks-ai). 591 words, ~1,546 tokens.

name

kol-discovery

description

Find Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in a given domain by combining web research with LinkedIn post search. Given a company/idea and target domain, generates authority keywords, searches LinkedIn posts to find prolific authors with high engagement, and merges with web-researched influencers. Use when someone wants to "find influencers in X space" or "who are the KOLs for Y industry."

tags

outreach

{
  "client_name": "example",
  "domain_keywords": ["\"freight tech\" thought leadership", "supply chain innovation"],
  "exclusion_patterns": ["hiring.*position", "we.re recruiting"],
  "kol_title_keywords": ["vp", "founder", "analyst", "editor", "host"],
  "vendor_exclude_keywords": ["software engineer", "saas", "recruiter"],
  "domain_relevance_keywords": ["freight", "logistics", "supply chain"],
  "country_filter": "",
  "max_posts_per_keyword": 50,
  "min_posts": 2,
  "min_total_engagement": 50,
  "top_n_kols": 50
}

python3 skills/kol-discovery/scripts/kol_discovery.py \
  --config kol-discovery.json \
  --output-dir . \
  [--test] [--web-kols kol-web-kols.json] [--yes]

[
  {
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe/",
    "source": "FreightWaves conference speaker 2025",
    "notes": "Hosts weekly logistics podcast"
  }
]

python3 skills/kol-discovery/scripts/kol_discovery.py \
  --config clients/example/configs/kol-discovery.json \
  --output-dir clients/example/leads --yes

© gooseworks-ai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in skills/social/capabilities/kol-discovery of gooseworks-ai/goose-skills.

• SKILL.md
• scripts/kol_discovery.py
• skill.meta.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c650c6d

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in gooseworks-ai/goose-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• criptogus/agent-evolve-network.claude/skills/kol-discovery