Do thorough, cited web research to help make a decision — compare tools, evaluate competitors, research tech stacks, or assess market data. Use when the user needs a well-sourced answer before making a technical, product, or business decision.
Do thorough, multi-source web research and present findings as structured, actionable intelligence. This is the skill for when you need to make a decision and want real data — cited, current, and structured.
When the user asks a research question (via $ARGUMENTS or in conversation):
mcp__olostep__answers with a json schema for structured, cited results.mcp__olostep__scrape_websitemcp__olostep__batch_scrape_urls on competitors' pricing/features/docs pages.mcp__olostep__get_website_urls to find relevant pages within a specific site."Help me pick a tool"
"Compare Prisma, Drizzle, and Kysely for a serverless TypeScript API. Which should I use?" →
answerswith a structured JSON schema → detailed comparison → clear recommendation based on the user's constraints.
"Competitive intelligence"
"I'm building a Firecrawl alternative. What do Firecrawl, Apify, and Browserbase offer, and where are the gaps?" →
answersfor broad overview → batch scrape each competitor's pricing + features pages → gap analysis with actionable insights.
"Build vs buy"
"Should I build my own auth or use Clerk/Auth0/Supabase Auth? B2B SaaS with SSO." →
answerswith schema covering cost, SSO support, migration difficulty, vendor lock-in → recommendation.
"Is this production-ready?"
"Is Bun production-ready in 2026? I want to replace Node in our API." → Aggregates GitHub activity, open issues, community sentiment, production case studies → structured risk assessment.
"Vendor evaluation"
"Compare Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and Milvus for a RAG pipeline with 10M documents." →
answersfor capabilities overview → batch scrape each vendor's pricing page → comparison with scale requirements.
/olostep:docs-to-code to integrate it.json schema with answers — structured output makes comparisons fair and usableanswers gives good overviews but may miss fine print