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research-data-collection

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Collect, normalize, and summarize public web data for downstream agents. Use when researching markets, competitors, products, pricing, positioning, SEO content, source evidence, or customer language using search, HTTP extraction, Firecrawl, Playwright, Scrapling, or other scraping tools.

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7 rules. About 0 are common, 7 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

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    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

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    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  1. Distinctive:

    Prefer public pages and official APIs.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Check robots.txt, site terms, and task scope before crawling.

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  3. Distinctive:

    Do not bypass paywalls, login walls, captchas, or access controls.

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  4. Distinctive:

    Do not collect sensitive personal data without a lawful explicit scope and repository policy.

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  5. Distinctive:

    Start with search or a human-curated source list for broad questions.

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  6. Distinctive:

    Use public-page extraction for markdown-friendly sources.

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  7. Distinctive:

    Avoid stealth or anti-bot modes unless the terms permit automation and a human explicitly approved the risk.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Research Data Collection

Collect useful evidence, not raw dumps. The output should help another agent make better decisions.

Safety Policy

  1. Prefer public pages and official APIs.
  2. Check robots.txt, site terms, and task scope before crawling.
  3. Do not bypass paywalls, login walls, captchas, or access controls.
  4. Do not collect sensitive personal data without a lawful explicit scope and repository policy.
  5. Rate-limit requests, keep crawls narrow, record provenance, and separate facts from inferences.

Tool Selection

  • Start with search or a human-curated source list for broad questions.
  • Use public-page extraction for markdown-friendly sources; use HTTP clients for static pages/APIs and browser automation only for JS-rendered pages.
  • Restrict crawlers to bounded multi-page extraction.
  • Avoid stealth or anti-bot modes unless the terms permit automation and a human explicitly approved the risk.

Output Contract

Return a compact research pack with objective/scope; source URL, title, access time, method, relevance and confidence; cited facts; relevant competitor claims, offers, pricing, proof, objections, and audience language; SEO entities/content gaps; artifacts where visual evidence matters; limitations; and next actions.

For landing-page research, prioritize audience pains, outcomes, positioning, proof, differentiation, official contact channels, search terms, FAQs, objections, and visual references. Mark channels as validated, user-provided, inferred, inaccessible, or pending; never invent a WhatsApp number.

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