search

combined

Use this skill when the user wants to search the web without a full browser session: find URLs, titles, and metadata for a query. Prefer it over a browser when you just need search results, not page content. Returns structured results with titles, URLs, authors, and dates. 31 database search skills. Trigger: finding papers, search strategies, querying academic databases. Design: one skill per database/tool with API details, query syntax, and rate limits.

When to use

| Use Case | Search API | Browser Skill | |----------|-----------|---------------| | Find URLs for a topic | Yes | Overkill | | Get page titles and metadata | Yes | Overkill | | Read full page content | No | Yes | | JavaScript-rendered pag…

When not to use

read full page content
JavaScript-rendered pages
form interactions
visit and interact with pages

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Conflict

The two skills both address search, but they target different systems and workflows. The first is a concrete procedure for the Browserbase Search API (curl, API key, request/response schema, error codes). The second is a catalog/index of 31 academic database search skills (arXiv, PubMed, OpenAlex, etc.) and does not provide a single executable procedure. Neither copy is a reproduction of the other, and crowning one would hide a real alternative.