Game Research Websearch
Research a game, engine or modding technique on the open web with archive-aware...
Install
npx skills add rehan-remade/universal-modder --skill game-research-websearch -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- rehan-remade/universal-modder9.3k
- Category
- Git and review
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 1,954 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Research a game, engine or modding technique on the open web with archive-aware, rate-limit-safe searches, Wayback Machine/archive.today for dead forums (XeNTaX, Zenhax, old threads), GitHub code/repo search, Nexus/Steam Workshop/Thunderstore APIs, Reddit JSON, YouTube transcripts, plus archive snapshots as evidence. Use when starting work on a game ("how did people mod X before?"), when a documented tool/link is dead, when forum threads are login-gated (semi-auto handoff to the human), and before writing a field note so claims carry source URLs.
Game research: web search that survives dead forums
Modding knowledge lives on forums that died in 2020, in Discord channels nobody can fetch anonymously, and on pages that move. This skill makes searching for it systematic: archive first, live sources second, screenshots as evidence, and an explicit handoff when a page needs the human's login.
Search engines are the index, not the source, every conclusion gets a real URL behind it.
Never fetched
- Leaked code, SDKs or builds; pirated games, ROMs or ISOs; keygens or license keys; cracked exes; DRM or anti-cheat bypass tools. Don't fetch, link or paste them. What others learned from a leak can go in the journal in your own words, with where it came from (CONTRIBUTING.md).
- Forum attachments, archived downloads and file-host mirrors. Read the posts; install tools only from
their official repo or releases, with the human's OK (
skills/mod-any-game/references/safety.md).
Core loop
um kb search "<game>", check the knowledge base and field notes first, as AGENTS.md says.- Form 3-5 query variants (see Query formulation).
- Search live sources (GitHub, Nexus APIs, Reddit, YouTube).
- Whatever is dead, deleted or 404 → archive lookup (see Internet Archive suite).
- Login-gated → semi-auto handoff (see Login-gated sources). Never handle credentials.
- Capture evidence: source URLs in the working journal, screenshots for visual claims.
- Synthesize with credibility notes; contradictions stay visible.
