Web Research Workflow

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Researching web content
• Extracting raw markdown
• Capturing documentation
• Monitoring competitor changes

Example prompts

• “/web-research-workflow”

Requirements

• A credential in TAVILY_API_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Claude Code 2.1.277+. Requires network access.
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash, Read, Write, WebFetch

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 02bbf9a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Bash
  • Read
  • Write
  • WebFetch

  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 these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • TAVILY_API_KEY

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

• Compatibility

  Claude Code 2.1.277+. Requires network access.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Web Research Workflow loads about 988 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 230 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~100

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

~988

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~1.9k

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

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, WebFetch

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

The full file from yonatangross/orchestkit at commit 02bbf9a, republished under its MIT licence (© yonatangross). 230 words, ~988 tokens.

name

web-research-workflow

description

Unified decision tree for web research and competitive monitoring. Auto-selects WebFetch, Tavily, or agent-browser based on target site characteristics and available API keys. Includes competitor page tracking, snapshot diffing, and change alerting. Use when researching web content, scraping, extracting raw markdown, capturing documentation, or monitoring competitor changes.

allowed-tools

Bash, Read, Write, WebFetch

compatibility

Claude Code 2.1.277+. Requires network access.

license

MIT

context

inherit

user-invocable

false

disable-model-invocation

true

effort

low

model

haiku

metadata.category

mcp-enhancement

metadata.version

1.3.0

metadata.author

OrchestKit

metadata.complexity

low

URL to research
     │
     ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ 1. Try WebFetch │ ← Fast, free, no overhead
│    (always try) │
└─────────────────┘
     │
Content OK? ──Yes──► Parse and return
     │
     No (empty/partial/<500 chars)
     │
     ▼
┌───────────────────────┐
│ 2. TAVILY_API_KEY set?│
└───────────────────────┘
     │          │
    Yes         No ──► Skip to step 3
     │
     ▼
┌───────────────────────────┐
│ Tavily search/extract/    │ ← Raw markdown, batch URLs
│ crawl/research            │
└───────────────────────────┘
     │
Content OK? ──Yes──► Parse and return
     │
     No (JS-rendered/auth-required)
     │
     ▼
┌─────────────────────┐
│ 3. Use agent-browser │ ← Full browser, last resort
└─────────────────────┘
     │
├─ SPA (react/vue/angular) ──► wait --load networkidle
├─ Login required ──► auth flow + state save
├─ Dynamic content ──► wait --text "Expected"
└─ Multi-page ──► crawl pattern

© yonatangross, 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 8 other files (references) in src/skills/web-research-workflow of yonatangross/orchestkit.

• SKILL.md
• references/tavily-api.md
• rules/_sections.md
• rules/_template.md
• rules/browser-patterns.md
• rules/monitoring-change-detection.md
• rules/monitoring-competitor.md
• rules/tool-selection.md
• test-cases.json

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 02bbf9a