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The Nimble Web Expert skill gives your agent the ability to search, extract, scrape, map, crawl, and run pre-built extraction agents across any website. Fast, incremental, and immediately responsive. This is the only way your AI assistant can access live websites. Powered by the Nimble CLI and built on the open-source Agent Skills standard for cross-platform agent compatibility.

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Tools Overview

Quick Install

1

Run this command in your terminal

Installs the Nimble skills and configures the MCP server.
2

Verify installation

Run /mcp and confirm nimble appears in your connected servers.

Prerequisites

1. Nimble CLI

Install the Nimble CLI globally:
Verify with:

2. Nimble API Key

Get your key at online.nimbleway.com. Set the NIMBLE_API_KEY environment variable using your platform’s method:
Add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

Quick Start

The Nimble Web Expert skill activates automatically when you ask for live web data:
Use this skill for immediate, one-off data needs. For workflows you will run repeatedly, have it build an Extract Template or schedule an Extract Job instead.

Command Examples

Accurate, real-time web search with 8 focus modes (general, coding, news, academic, shopping, social, geo, location).
Use --search-depth lite (default) for fast responses (1-3s). Use --search-depth deep when you need full page content for archiving or full-text analysis.

Extract

Get clean, structured data from any URL with stealth unblocking and JS rendering.

Map

Discover all URLs on a site to plan extraction workflows.

Crawl

Extract content from entire websites asynchronously.
For LLM-friendly output, prefer map + extract --parse --format markdown on individual pages. Crawl returns raw HTML which can be very large.

One-off data vs reusable workflows

This skill covers both, so the choice is which Nimble product it reaches for: For open-ended research with citations rather than extraction, use a Web Search Agent.

About Agent Skills

This skill follows the Agent Skills open-source standard, making it compatible with multiple AI agent platforms. Install using the Skills CLI, the standard package manager for the Agent Skills ecosystem.

Full Command Reference

For the complete list of options, flags, and advanced usage patterns, see the SKILL.md on GitHub.