# Find Professional Profiles with Metix AI

Professional profile searches can return irrelevant matches when filters, titles, or locations do not match stored values. This skill guides Metix AI queries, selective record retrieval, and result refinement using the live API contract.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add metixai-official/metix-people-search
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: metixai-official-metix-people-search
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 6c07d2c05de1684377e9f88067e655f9d11adbb4f085d52fb2375cc15a49e29e
- Author: metixai-official
- GitHub username: metixai-official
- Repository: https://github.com/metixai-official/metix-skills/tree/989f0b41515b405e4dd2ac73d527399f4f027746/skills/metix-people-search
- Ref: 9938f91a9ab0f5763a54332b129295339bf829dd
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network
- Quality score: 72
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/metixai-official-metix-people-search
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/metixai-official-metix-people-search/manifest

## Capabilities

- Guide structured profile searches using contract-defined fields, supported operators, and scoped experience conditions.
- Use natural-language searches when requirements cannot be represented with structured fields.
- Retrieve selected profile fields in batches of up to 100 search-returned identifiers.
- Page through structured results using the returned cursor while preserving search filters.
- Refine searches through title comparisons, count queries, and incremental filter changes.
- Guide contact availability checks and paid unlock requests with batch limits, payment prerequisites, and advance cost disclosure.

## Use Cases

- Build a Candidate Shortlist: Search by role, location, and experience, then retrieve relevant profile fields for human review.
- Research Relevant Professionals: Find professionals by employer and function, narrow the results, and check contact availability before considering paid unlocks.
- Compare Professional Talent Pools: Compare title variants and required qualifications with structured count queries before retrieving sample records.

## Prompt Templates

### Find Profiles

```
Find up to 10 data engineers in the United States using Metix. Return names, current titles, and countries without contact details.
```

### Refine Sparse Results

```
My Metix search for backend engineers in Canada returned few results. Compare title variants and change one filter at a time, reporting counts.
```

### Use Natural-Language Search

```
Find professionals whose careers combine engineering leadership and climate technology. Explain applicable Metix credit charges before searching, then retrieve only relevant profile fields.
```

### Scope Experience and Control Costs

```
Count US backend engineers with five years of experience currently at financial services companies. Use one experience scope, then retrieve 25 profiles. Do not unlock contacts.
```

## Limitations

- Requires access to Metix AI through HTTP or MCP and a configured METIX\_KEY for authenticated API requests.
- Search returns identifiers, not full records; supported fields and operators depend on the live contract.
- Natural-language search has a base credit charge and provides neither total counts nor pagination cursors.
- Contact unlock requires a paid account; MCP unlock also requires the contact:unlock scope, and availability is not guaranteed.

## Best Practices

- Read the live contract before building filters, and keep conditions for one job inside one experience scope.
- Count results before retrieving records, request only needed fields, and batch identifiers to control credit costs.
- Keep METIX\_KEY private, narrow contact lists, and review the maximum reserved charge before any contact unlock.

## Anti Patterns

- Turning optional preferences into mandatory filters or using unsupported operators on exact-value fields.
- Treating search identifiers as complete records or expecting natural-language search to return counts and cursors.
- Printing credentials, searching for substitute keys, or unlocking broad contact lists without reviewing costs.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-11-09T03:06:02.666\+00:00
- Summary: All 59 static findings are false positives: Markdown backticks, documented Metix URLs, and profile identifiers do not indicate execution or system reconnaissance. API authentication uses the designated environment key, with explicit rules against exposing it or searching for substitute credentials. No evidence found of malicious instructions, unauthorized exfiltration, or additional intent-level risks in the reviewed file.

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