task icon Task

Research Person

Look up background information on a person using Exa

Requirements

Person's name. Optional: company they work at, their role, or reason for lookup (meeting prep, hiring, etc.)

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instruction icon Synthesize findings into a clear profile. Lead with current role and company. Include career background, notable work, and recent activity if found. Mention related people (co-founders, colleagues) if relevant. Offer to dig deeper on specific angles.
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instruction icon If this is meeting prep, ongoing project research, or user asks to save: save a YAML profile to uiPeople Profiles with filename like firstname-lastname.yaml. Include name, current_role, company, summary, key_facts list, sources list, and date_researched. Otherwise, just present the findings.
                  To run this task you must have the following required information:


Person's name. Optional: company they work at, their role, or reason for lookup (meeting prep, hiring, etc.)


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## Steps

1. [Gather Arguments: Exa Search] The next step has the following requirements for arguments, do not proceed until you have all the required information:
- `query`: person's name plus any context (company, role) to disambiguate
- `numResults` (default: "5"): 5
- `type` (default: "auto"): auto

2. [Run Code: Exa Search]: Call `run_script` with:

```json
{
  "file": {
    "path": https://sk.ills.app/code/research.exa.search/preview,
    "args": [
      "query",
      "numResults",
      "type"
    ]
  },
  "packages": null
}
```

3. Synthesize findings into a clear profile. Lead with current role and company. Include career background, notable work, and recent activity if found. Mention related people (co-founders, colleagues) if relevant. Offer to dig deeper on specific angles.

4. If this is meeting prep, ongoing project research, or user asks to save: save a YAML profile to `./documents/research/people/*` with filename like firstname-lastname.yaml. Include name, current_role, company, summary, key_facts list, sources list, and date_researched. Otherwise, just present the findings.