Visual Research
This skill should be used when analyzing a competitor's brand identity, auditing visual brand elements, researching brand positioning, comparing brand aesthetics, evaluating competitor design language, or conducting systematic visual research on brand identity, logo systems, color palettes, or design patterns for competitive analysis. Triggers on: 'research [brand]', 'visual research', 'brand research', 'brand visual audit', 'competitor visual analysis', 'analyze [brand] identity', 'brand audit', 'visual identity analysis', 'find images for [brand]', 'capture [brand] social'.
Install
npx skills add curious-endeavor/visual-research --skill visual-researchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curious-endeavor/visual-research.git /tmp/visual-research
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/visual-research/. ~/.claude/skills/visual-researchPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Visual Research Full-pipeline skill for researching a brand's visual identity, capturing imagery from every available source, and packaging it into a branded HTML report with a 13-section competitive analysis. ## Setup Before starting, check available tools and build a capabilities report. **Required:** - `curl` — Instagram API calls, direct image downloads. Pre-installed on macOS/Linux. **Recommended (API keys):** | Key | What it powers | Phase | Fallback | |-----|---------------|-------|----------| | `GEMINI_API_KEY` | Gemini Vision — color extraction, composition analysis from captured images | Analyze | Claude's built-in vision via `Read` tool. Good quality, Gemini preferred for batch processing | Check: `echo $GEMINI_API_KEY` **Optional (CLI tools):** | Tool | What it powers | Phase | Install | Fallback | |------|---------------|-------|---------|----------| | Playwright | Full-page screenshots of websites, social grids, app stores | Capture | `npx playwright install chromium` | `web_fetch` for text content. Loses visual capture | | yt-dlp | YouTube/TikTok video thumbnails | Extract | `pip3 install yt-dlp` | `web_search` for campaign stills from press | | Scrapling | Anti-bot scraping for protected sites | Capture/Extract | `pip3 install scrapling` | `web_fetch` — works for most sites | Check each: `which playwright`, `which yt-dlp`, `python3 -c "import scrapling" 2>/dev/null && echo ok` **Setup behavior:**
Details
- Skill name
visual-research- Repository
- curious-endeavor/visual-research
- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 25 March 2026
- Copies
- Found in 2 GitHub repos
FAQ
What does the Visual Research skill do?
This skill should be used when analyzing a competitor's brand identity, auditing visual brand elements, researching brand positioning, comparing brand aesthetics, evaluating competitor design language, or conducting systematic visual research on brand identity, logo systems, color palettes, or design patterns for competitive analysis. Triggers on: 'research [brand]', 'visual research', 'brand research', 'brand visual audit', 'competitor visual analysis', 'analyze [brand] identity', 'brand audit', 'visual identity analysis', 'find images for [brand]', 'capture [brand] social'.
How do I install the Visual Research skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add curious-endeavor/visual-research --skill visual-research. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Visual Research popular?
It lives in curious-endeavor/visual-research, which has 11 GitHub stars and 3 forks.
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