- name
- blocked-page-fallback
- description
- Recover when a web page is thin, blocked, JS-heavy, region-limited, or fetch-incompatible by switching to lawful fallback paths instead of stopping early.
Blocked Page Fallback
Use this skill when normal web fetch/search is not enough, but the goal may still be reachable through alternate lawful paths.
Do Not Do
- do not bypass login
- do not evade anti-bot or access controls
- do not brute-force endpoints
Fallback Ladder
1. Broaden discovery
- search multiple engines
- use site-specific search
- try alternate titles, aliases, slugs, and locale variants
2. Switch transport
- if plain fetch is thin, use a browser-rendered path
- if browser path is noisy, pivot back to targeted fetch on discovered links
3. Pivot source types
Try allowed alternatives:
- official docs or help centers
- official API or export surfaces
- feeds, sitemaps, changelogs, or release notes
- search-engine cached snippets where available
- public mirrors or archive copies that are openly reachable
- reputable secondary databases
4. Use structural clues
If the exact page is blocked, search by:
- page title fragments
- quoted snippets
- IDs, handles, usernames, product codes, or canonical names
- internal link labels and breadcrumb terms
5. Keep going until confidence is earned
Do not stop after:
- one blocked fetch
- one empty browser render
- one weak search pass
Stop when:
- authoritative or converging sources answer the question
- the remaining blocker is concrete and real
- additional paths are now duplicative
Output Pattern
Return:
- primary path that failed
- fallback paths attempted
- which fallback produced signal
- best answer now available
- what would require user-authorized login or a first-party API