Agent Skill

Person Research

Create structured professional research summaries from public profile information, safely.

Version 1.0 Updated June 2026 SKILL.md MIT 6 min read
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Overview

What this skill does

A useful person summary for sales or recruiting is professional and factual: current role, background, expertise, relevant experience. Ad hoc summaries drift into speculation and inconsistency.

This skill produces the same professional profile every time, strictly from supplied public information, and explicitly refuses to infer anything sensitive about the individual. Unknowns are listed as research gaps rather than guessed.

When to use it

Best used for

  • Preparing for a sales or recruiting conversation
  • Summarizing a sourced profile list consistently
  • Identifying relevant experience for a role or account
  • Flagging what is unknown about a contact

Know the limits

When not to use this skill

  • You only have a name with no professional context
  • You need personal, private, or sensitive attributes (never infer these)
  • You want verified contact details rather than a summary

Inputs

Provide these when prompted. The skill asks for anything missing before it runs.

Required

  • Public professional profile information

Optional

  • The role or account context
  • Specific expertise you care about

Outputs

One summary per person with a consistent, inspectable schema.

  • current_role

    Stated current title and company.

  • professional_background

    Career history from the profile.

  • areas_of_expertise

    Skills/domains evidenced.

  • relevant_experience

    Experience tied to the stated context.

  • affiliations

    Organizations, communities, or memberships listed.

  • research_gaps

    Professional unknowns to research.

Example

Example

A summary built from a public profile.

Input

Context: Selling a data platform.

Profile: Maria Chen — VP Engineering at Lumen Robotics; previously led platform teams; speaks on data infrastructure.

Output

current_role: VP Engineering, Lumen Robotics
professional_background: Platform engineering leadership across two firms
areas_of_expertise: Data infrastructure; platform teams
relevant_experience: Owns data platform decisions (buyer-relevant)
affiliations: Conference speaker on data infrastructure
research_gaps: Tenure length; current tooling

The summary is buyer-relevant and entirely professional. No personal attributes are inferred, and gaps point to what to confirm before outreach.

Setup

How to use the skill

General steps first, then notes for specific clients where verified.

  1. 1Download the file using the button below, or copy the Markdown.
  2. 2Place it in a directory named after the skill (e.g. skill-name/).
  3. 3Make sure the filename stays exactly SKILL.md.
  4. 4Add any references or assets included with the package.
  5. 5Load the skill into a compatible agent and provide the required inputs.
Claude Code
  1. 1Create a folder for the skill and save SKILL.md inside it.
  2. 2Place the folder where your project's skills are discovered.
  3. 3Reference the skill when you want it applied to your data.
Other compatible clients
  1. 1Confirm the client supports the open Agent Skills format.
  2. 2Load the SKILL.md file as instructed by that client.
  3. 3If skills are not auto-loaded, paste the Markdown as instructions.

Source

Full SKILL.md source

Read the rendered skill or copy the complete Markdown. The download is generated from this exact source.

Version 1.0 SKILL.md ~2 KB MIT
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Person Research

Purpose

Create structured professional research summaries from public profile information, safely.

When to use this skill

  • Preparing for a sales or recruiting conversation
  • Summarizing a sourced profile list consistently
  • Identifying relevant experience for a role or account
  • Flagging what is unknown about a contact

When not to use this skill

  • You only have a name with no professional context
  • You need personal, private, or sensitive attributes (never infer these)
  • You want verified contact details rather than a summary

Required inputs

  • Public professional profile information

Optional inputs

  • The role or account context
  • Specific expertise you care about

Rules

  1. Use only supplied public, professional information.
  2. Do not infer health, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or other sensitive personal attributes.
  3. Do not speculate about personality, intent, or private life.
  4. Separate stated facts from inferences.
  5. List unknowns as research gaps.

Process

  1. Parse the public profile.
  2. Summarize role, background, and expertise.
  3. Tie relevant experience to the stated context.
  4. List affiliations explicitly stated.
  5. Record research gaps.

Output format

Return one summary per person with the following fields:

  • current_role
  • professional_background
  • areasofexpertise
  • relevant_experience
  • affiliations
  • research_gaps

Validation

  • Confirm no sensitive attributes were inferred.
  • Confirm each field cites profile evidence.
  • Confirm gaps are listed, not filled.

Limitations

  • Profiles may be outdated or incomplete.
  • Professional relevance is an interpretation, not a fact.

Before you rely on it

Safety and limitations

  • Profiles may be outdated or incomplete.
  • Professional relevance is an interpretation, not a fact.
  • Review the output before acting on it.
  • Do not upload confidential datasets to an external model without authorization.
  • Outputs depend on the model and the source data and are not guaranteed to be accurate.

History

Changelog

  1. v1.0June 2026
    • Initial release.

Questions

Agent Skill FAQ

What profile data should I provide?
Public professional information — role, employer, experience, and stated skills. It summarizes only what is present and never infers sensitive personal attributes.
Why does it refuse some inferences?
It is built to stay professional and compliant: it will not infer health, religion, ethnicity, orientation, politics, or other sensitive attributes.
Do I need ProfileSpider to use this skill?
No. The skill works on any compatible data. ProfileSpider is one convenient way to produce that structured input.
Does running this skill send data to ProfileSpider?
No. Downloading or copying the file does not send any data to ProfileSpider. What happens afterward depends on the AI service you load it into.
Are Agent Skills the same as prompts?
No. A skill is a structured, reusable package — task, inputs, rules, process, and output format — so the workflow runs consistently and can be shared, versioned, and edited.

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