people-research

people-research is a skill for Claude Code from feniix/pi-extensions. It costs 21 tokens per session (634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research skill for finding public professional profiles and biographies with Exa search. It is aimed at people such as experts, candidates, speakers, authors, investors, founders, maintainers, and researchers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover experts or candidates, answer factual questions about a person, read selected bios, compare people, or find profiles similar to a strong example.
Why use it?
It helps locate relevant people when ordinary topic searches do not provide a focused list of professional profiles.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to discover experts or candidates, answer factual questions about a person, read selected bios, compare people, or find profiles similar to a strong example.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/feniix/pi-extensions/people-research
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add feniix/pi-extensions --skill people-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/feniix/pi-extensions

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 634 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00634
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00317
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 12d ago against content hash c92c840fbef1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

people-research scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

packages/pi-exa/skills/people-research/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

People Research (Exa)

Use this skill for finding experts, candidates, speakers, authors, investors, founders, maintainers, or other public professional profiles.

Tool Selection

Intent Primary Tool Notes
Professional profile discovery web_search_advanced_exa with category: "people" Use when available; put role, domain, company, or location in query.
Broad discovery when advanced search is unavailable web_search_exa Use precise role/company/topic terms and public-profile keywords.
Compare multiple people or build a shortlist web_research_exa Use when enabled; include selection criteria in systemPrompt.
Direct factual question about one person web_answer_exa Good for short cited checks.
Read selected profile pages or bios web_fetch_exa Fetch only high-signal URLs.
Find similar profiles from a strong seed page web_find_similar_exa Use when one public profile is an ideal example.

If web_search_advanced_exa is unavailable, fall back to web_search_exa. If web_research_exa is unavailable, provide a sourced shortlist without deep synthesis.

Filter Restrictions

When using web_search_advanced_exa with category: "people", avoid:

  • excludeDomains
  • startPublishedDate / endPublishedDate

For includeDomains, only LinkedIn domains are accepted by the extension for category: "people", such as linkedin.com or www.linkedin.com.

  • People discovery
    • { "query": "distributed systems database engineer San Francisco", "category": "people", "numResults": 10 }
  • LinkedIn-scoped people discovery
    • { "query": "AI infrastructure startup founder", "category": "people", "includeDomains": ["linkedin.com"], "numResults": 10 }
  • Deep shortlist comparison
    • { "query": "Find public experts in database internals and distributed systems who write about production engineering trade-offs.", "systemPrompt": "Prefer public bios, personal sites, talks, publications, and reputable profiles. Flag common-name ambiguity and sparse evidence.", "outputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "experts": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object" } }, "caveats": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } } } } }

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 48 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A c92c840fbef1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

people-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository feniix/pi-extensions (23 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 634 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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