web-research

Online research agent that searches the live web for any topic, fetches the strongest sources, and produces an easy-to-digest formatted report with citations. Triggers: 'research X online', 'find me info about X', 'search the web for X', 'look up X', 'what are the most used Y', 'who is doing Y now', 'compare X vs Y online', 'find references for X', 'is there a tool that does X', 'what's the current state of X', 'find recent articles about X'. Use this whenever the answer requires LIVE external information (recency, popularity, comparisons, vendor landscape, news, prices, tutorials, public discussion). Do NOT use for analyzing the local codebase — that's the `research` skill. It's a reusable SKILL.md instruction set that loads into your AI coding assistant on demand, no prompt engineering, no copy-pasting every session.

Run `npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install web-research` from your terminal. The CLI writes the SKILL.md to the correct location for your AI tool (e.g. ~/.claude/skills/web-research/ for Claude Code or ~/.cursor/skills/ for Cursor with --target cursor) and adds it to your project's .skills.json lockfile.

web-research runs in Claude Code. It follows the open Agent Skills standard (SKILL.md), so the same skill works in every supported tool without modification.

Yes. Every skill on skills-hub.ai is free and open-source. There are no premium tiers, paywalls, or usage limits. You only pay for whatever AI assistant you're already using.

In Claude Code, type `/web-research` (or whatever slash command the skill registers) and the AI follows the skill's instructions immediately. You can also reference it by name in natural language, your AI loads the skill into context when relevant.

Yes. Commit your project's .skills.json lockfile and teammates run `npx @skills-hub-ai/cli install` (no args) to install every skill at the exact version you pinned. Organization-scoped installs work via skills-hub.ai organizations.