Agent skill

Company Research

by liangdabiao in liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill

Company, competitor, and market intelligence research using Exa or an equivalent web-search/MCP tool.

No licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Company Research

skills CLI
$ npx skills add liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill --skill company-research -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill company-research --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/company-research .claude/skills/company-research && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
company-research
GitHub stars
110
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
462 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
7
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Company, competitor, and market intelligence research using Exa or an equivalent web-search/MCP tool.

  • Works in 5 steps: Clarify scope if needed → Plan query variants → Run focused searches → …
  • Requests to research a company
  • SKILL.md covers Core Rules, Research Workflow, Dynamic Search Depth and Output Patterns, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Company Research is an agent skill from liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill. Company, competitor, and market intelligence research using Exa or an equivalent web-search/MCP tool. Use for requests to research a company, build competitor lists, find company news, summarize financial/funding/headcount/location facts, discover public LinkedIn/people profiles, or produce cited market landscape briefs in Codex, OpenClaw, and other SKILL.md-compatible agents.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Sales call preparation, Web search and MCP servers. It works with LinkedIn. The repository describes itself as: 基于 Claude Code 和 Exa 搜索引擎的 AI 驱动企业与市场研究工具。核心特性 - 智能公司研究: 自动收集公司信息、新闻、社交媒体动态、财务数据和 LinkedIn 资料 - 竞争对手分析: 快速构建竞争对手列表,分析市场定位 - 市场研究: 跟踪行业趋势、并购活动、技术发展 - 上下文隔离: 所有搜索在独立代理中运行,保持主对话整洁 -….

When your agent uses it

  • Requests to research a company
  • Build competitor lists
  • Find company news
  • Summarize financial/funding/headcount/location facts

Example prompts

  • “/company-research”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Clarify scope if needed
  2. Plan query variants
  3. Run focused searches
  4. Merge and deduplicate
  5. Synthesize output

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6a345be. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Company Research loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 462 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
~1.1k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 462 words (~1,106 tokens).

“Use this structure for single-company research:”

— opening of SKILL.md by liangdabiao
name
company-research

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/company-research of liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6a345be

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Questions about Company Research

What does Company Research do?

Company, competitor, and market intelligence research using Exa or an equivalent web-search/MCP tool. Company Research is an agent skill from liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill. Company, competitor, and market intelligence research using Exa or an equivalent web-search/MCP tool.

When should I use Company Research?

Company Research fits situations like: requests to research a company; build competitor lists; find company news; summarize financial/funding/headcount/location facts.

How do I install Company Research in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill --skill company-research -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/company-research in liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill) into .claude/skills/company-research in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Company Research in Codex?

Run `npx skills add liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill --skill company-research -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/company-research in liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill) into .agents/skills/company-research in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Company 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 liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill --skill company-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/company-research, .gemini/skills/company-research, .github/skills/company-research and .opencode/skills/company-research in your project.

What does Company Research need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Company Research is instructions for the agent only.

Does Company 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 Company 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 Company Research use?

No licence was found for Company Research or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Company Research use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.4k 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 Company Research?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Company Research: Bright Data MCP (brightdata/skills, 264 stars), Coffee Chat (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars), Sandbase (sandbaseai/cli, 188 stars) and Meeting Prep (mgonto/executive-assistant-skills, 118 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Company Research?

liangdabiao (a GitHub user) maintains it in liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill, which has 110 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 8, 2026.

Source: liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.