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Research, opportunities & monitors

Tools reference. Prefer Workflows and What to say for daily use.
Research and monitor skills help discover opportunities, run structured web research, and set standing monitors. Some monitor tooling may be evolving—validate in your workspace.

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Skills in this group

  • web_research
    • User-facing name: Market / web research
    • Summary: External research on market, regs, competitors
  • search_opportunities
    • User-facing name: Search tender opportunities
    • Summary: Opportunity search
  • analyze_opportunity
    • User-facing name: Analyze opportunity
    • Summary: Opportunity-level analysis
  • create_monitor / list_monitors / update_monitor / stop_monitor
    • User-facing name: Tender monitors
    • Summary: Standing monitors (capability may be evolving)
  • bid_intelligence
    • User-facing name: Bid intelligence
    • Summary: Intelligence over bid context
  • analyze_bid_strategy
    • User-facing name: Strategy analysis
    • Summary: Also listed under risk/strategy

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When to use

Use these skills inside an Agents session at the appropriate phase (see Core loop).

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How to use (example utterances)

  • market research / research competitor landscape
  • search tenders / search opportunities
  • create monitor / list monitors

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Prerequisites

Works on empty sessions for research/opportunity discovery.

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Professional notes

  • Do not invent source counts or coverage KPIs; see orbid.dev for marketing claims.
  • Monitors: if behavior is limited in your tenant, treat as evolving.
  • Research exports may use produce_artifact.