search-tips
This skill should be used when performing web research beyond a simple single search -- looking into topics, comparing options, investigating questions, finding recommendations, or any task where effective use of Exa, Firecrawl, and Reddit tools matters. Triggers on "research", "look into", "investigate", "compare", "find out about", "search for", "find information", "what do people think about", "what are the best", "look up", or multi-source search tasks. Also invocable explicitly by deep-research team members via the Skill tool.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill search-tips --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Search Tips Accumulated guidance for web research using Exa, Firecrawl CLI, and Reddit MCP tools. These are **starting points, not rigid rules** -- think strategically about each situation and adapt. If a different approach makes more sense for what you're trying to do, go with it. Run `npx firecrawl-cli <command> --help` to check available options beyond what's documented here. Reference files cover tool-specific deep dives -- see bottom of this file. ## Setup Before starting research, load the required MCP tools using ToolSearch: 1. **Exa tools** -- `web_search_advanced_exa` and `get_code_context_exa` 2. **Reddit tools** -- `get_top_posts`, `get_post_comments`, `get_reddit_post`, `get_subreddit_info` Firecrawl CLI (`npx firecrawl-cli`) runs via Bash -- no MCP setup needed. Load only what the task requires. ## The Research Cycle Prefer Exa and Firecrawl over built-in WebSearch/WebFetch. Research alternates between **searching** (discovering sources) and **fetching** (extracting content from them). Find promising leads, read the best ones, refine your understanding, search again. ### Searching Finding sources you don't have yet. - **Exa search** (`web_search_advanced_exa`) -- pri
- Setup
- The Research Cycle
- Searching
- Fetching
- Adapting the Workflow
- Search Strategy
- How Exa Works
- Query Reformulation
- Domain Filtering
- Searching by Content Type
- Content Extraction
- Scraping Issues
- Operational Notes
- Reference Files
What does the search-tips skill do?
This skill should be used when performing web research beyond a simple single search -- looking into topics, comparing options, investigating questions, finding recommendations, or any task where effective use of Exa, Firecrawl, and Reddit tools matters. Triggers on "research", "look into", "investigate", "compare", "find out about", "search for", "find information", "what do people think about", "what are the best", "look up", or multi-source search tasks. Also invocable explicitly by deep-research team members via the Skill tool.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill search-tips --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.