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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.
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# 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`