Agent skill

Foreign Trade Research

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

Deep foreign-trade and overseas market-entry research for a target country plus product/category.

No licenceAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Foreign Trade Research

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill foreign-trade-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/foreign-trade-research .claude/skills/foreign-trade-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
foreign-trade-research
GitHub stars
110
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
502 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
7
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Deep foreign-trade and overseas market-entry research for a target country plus product/category.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify the Competitive Landscape → Deep-Dive Each Competitor → Build a Comparison Matrix → …
  • Chinese exporters
  • SKILL.md covers Core Rules, Five-Step Workflow, Search Depth and Chrome MCP / Browser Fallback
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Foreign Trade Research is an agent skill from liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill. Deep foreign-trade and overseas market-entry research for a target country plus product/category. Use for Chinese exporters, manufacturers, and cross-border teams that need competitor landscapes, local brands, manufacturers, distributors/importers, pricing, channels, market gaps, risks, and a cited Chinese business report. Portable across Codex, OpenClaw, Claude Code, and other SKILL.md-compatible agents.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Marketing & SEO, covering Report writing and Go-to-market strategy. 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

  • Chinese exporters
  • Cross-border teams that need competitor landscapes
  • Distributors/importers
  • A cited Chinese business report

Example prompts

  • “/foreign-trade-research”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify the Competitive Landscape
  2. Deep-Dive Each Competitor
  3. Build a Comparison Matrix
  4. Cross-Validate Key Data
  5. Write the Final Report

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

Foreign Trade Research loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 502 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~108
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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 502 words (~1,317 tokens).

“Build a TOP20 market map for the target country and product:”

— opening of SKILL.md by liangdabiao
name
foreign-trade-research

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

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

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6a345be

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Market Research Workflowaiskillstore/marketplace433—~5.2kAutomated safety check: PassNone

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Questions about Foreign Trade Research

What does Foreign Trade Research do?

Deep foreign-trade and overseas market-entry research for a target country plus product/category. Foreign Trade Research is an agent skill from liangdabiao/exa-research-mcp-skill. Deep foreign-trade and overseas market-entry research for a target country plus product/category.

When should I use Foreign Trade Research?

Foreign Trade Research fits situations like: chinese exporters; cross-border teams that need competitor landscapes; distributors/importers; A cited Chinese business report.

How do I install Foreign Trade Research in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Foreign Trade Research in Codex?

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

Can I use Foreign Trade 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 foreign-trade-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/foreign-trade-research, .gemini/skills/foreign-trade-research, .github/skills/foreign-trade-research and .opencode/skills/foreign-trade-research in your project.

What does Foreign Trade Research need to run?

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

Does Foreign Trade 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 Foreign Trade 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 Foreign Trade Research use?

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

How many tokens does Foreign Trade Research use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Foreign Trade Research?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Foreign Trade Research: Money Strategy (iamzifei/show-me-the-money, 1k stars), HTML Ppt Zhangzara Broadside (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars), Qualify Leads (Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system, 318 stars) and Market Research (thatrebeccarae/claude-marketing, 161 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Foreign Trade 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.