# diffbot-people

> Claude/Codex skill by [@diffbot](https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/index.md) · 5 stars · Updated 2026-09-28

Search people in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph by job title, employer, employer industry, skills, education, location, or nationality. Covers people with a public online professional presence only — not a people-finder for private individuals. MUST USE skill when the answer is a list of people: executives at a company, alumni of a school, who holds a role, or who has a skill. Rows are people, not companies. Triggers on: find people, who works at, executives at, employees of, CEO of, CTO of, leadership team, alumni of, people who studied, people with skill, board members, who founded.

Tags: agent-skills, ai, coding, crawler, entity-resolution, extract, extraction, knowledge, knowledge-graph, knowledge-graphs, research, skills, websearch, websearch-agent, websearch-api

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills /tmp/diffbot-skills && ln -s /tmp/diffbot-skills/skills/diffbot-people ~/.claude/skills/diffbot-people
```

## From README

Diffbot People Search Find people in the Diffbot Knowledge Graph. This is type:Person DQL with the people-research levers pre-selected: employment history, employer industry, education, skills, and location. Coverage is limited to people with a public online presence — see the note at the end before reporting an empty or partial result. Row shape decides the skill. If the rows are people, this skill owns it — including "who runs Nvidia". If the rows are companies ("companies whose CEO is a woman"), use /diffbot-organizations. Sibling skills: /diffbot-news, /diffbot-places, /diffbot-deals. Use /diffbot-dql for anything outside these shapes. Workflow Step 1 — bootstrap Guard the venv creation as shown — re-running python3 -m venv on an existing venv overwrites activation scripts. init refreshes /.diffbot/ontology.json and verifies a token (DIFFBOTAPITOKEN env var, else /.diffbot/credentials). If neither exists the user must run: Tokens: https://app.diffbot.com/get-started/.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/diffbot-skills/skills/diffbot-people/
- GitHub: https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-skills
- Author: [@diffbot](https://omgskills.com/library/diffbot/index.md)

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