A safer alternative to 'act as a researcher' prompts
The 'act as an expert researcher' prompt is everywhere. It changes the tone of the answer, but it does not make the research real, sourced or safe.
What to watch for
- They do not actually verify sources, so confident wrong answers come out looking authoritative.
- Ones that do reach the web are often unchecked and can be steered by whatever page they read.
- No one has reviewed the instructions you are pasting in.
Use these instead
Checked, private by design, free to add to your agent in one paste.
Web Research Digest
Get clean, cited answers from the live web without opening a dozen browser tabs.
Perplexity Research
Get cited, up-to-the-minute answers and deep research reports from across the web.
Turn Web Pages Into Data
Point at a public URL and get back clean markdown or structured data in seconds.
FAQ
Is the AgentPod alternative to research prompt free?
Yes. You copy a short prompt, add it to your agent (Claude Cowork, Claude Code, Codex, and more), and it works. No account, no install, no payment.
What makes it safer than a random research prompt?
Every skill on AgentPod is read line by line and checked for hidden instructions that could trick your AI, secret data collection, and anything unsafe before it goes live, and each asks for the least access it needs. A prompt you copy off social media has had none of that done to it.
Does it work with my AI agent?
Yes. The skills work with Claude Cowork, Claude Code, Codex and more. The same teach prompt works in any of them.