Web research

Skill winetree94/devtools/skills/web-research

CLI for web research and agent skill workflows.

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npx -y skills add winetree94/devtools --skill web-research

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Research, inspect, extract, and enumerate web content with the devtools CLI. Use when an agent needs to search the web, search official docs, inspect a page before reading it, fetch readable content, extract links, or discover URLs from sitemaps.

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Web Research

Use this skill for web research and documentation discovery with devtools.

This skill covers the full web toolkit:

broad web search
docs-first search
page inspection
readable content extraction
link discovery
sitemap discovery

When to use which command

Need broad search results -> devtools web search
Need official docs only -> devtools web docs-search
Need metadata before reading content -> devtools web inspect
Need readable page content -> devtools web fetch
Need links to related pages -> devtools web links
Need many candidate URLs quickly -> devtools web sitemap

Recommended defaults

Prefer --json when another tool or agent will read the result.
Prefer web docs-search over general search when implementing against official APIs.
Use web inspect before web fetch if you are unsure whether a page is relevant.
Use web links --same-origin for lightweight docs traversal.
Use web sitemap --same-origin when you need site URL discovery without crawling.

Common commands

devtools web search "node.js 24 release notes"
devtools web docs-search nodejs.org/docs "fs watch" --json
devtools web inspect https://example.com/article --json
devtools web fetch https://example.com/article --format markdown
devtools web links https://example.com/docs/start --same-origin --json
devtools web sitemap https://example.com --same-origin --json