search-channel

search-channel is an agent for Claude Code from Oshayr/LLM-Wiki. It costs 23 tokens per session (807 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search agent that runs queries through a chosen channel such as the web, academic sources, code, documentation, or Wikipedia. It returns results in a consistent format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for papers, documentation, code, web pages, or Wikipedia entries and return titles, links, summaries, and source types.
Why use it?
It gives different kinds of research a defined search process, including caching and source-quality information where supported.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the llm-wiki plugin — 5 skills, 10 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to search for papers, documentation, code, web pages, or Wikipedia entries and return titles, links, summaries, and source types.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/oshayr/llm-wiki/search-channel
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Oshayr/LLM-Wiki

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install llm-wiki, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 10 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for search-channel

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/oshayr/llm-wiki/search-channel.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/oshayr/llm-wiki/search-channel)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/oshayr/llm-wiki/search-channel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/oshayr/llm-wiki/search-channel.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 807 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00807
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00081

Measured 8d ago against content hash 948c6a6e41d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-channel scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/search-channel.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Execute search queries for a specific channel type. The caller specifies the channel via the prompt context.

Channels

web

  1. Run WebSearch queries with the provided query variants
  2. For top results, extract clean content via python3 bin/fetch.py "<url>"
  3. Check search cache first: python3 bin/cache.py check web "<query>"
  4. Save results to cache: python3 bin/cache.py store web "<query>" "<results_json>"
  5. Return normalized results: {title, url, snippet, source_type: "web", credibility_tier}

docs

  1. Use Context7 MCP tool if available (resolve-library-id → query-docs)
  2. Fallback: WebSearch with site:docs.* OR site:*.readthedocs.io prefix
  3. Extract clean content via python3 bin/fetch.py
  4. Cache results: python3 bin/cache.py store docs "<query>" "<results_json>"
  5. Return normalized results: {title, url, snippet, source_type: "docs", credibility_tier}

wikipedia

  1. Check search cache first: python3 bin/cache.py check wikipedia "<query>"
  2. Use python3 bin/search-wikipedia.py search "<query>" --top 5
  3. Optionally pass --lang <code> for non-English queries (e.g. --lang de)
  4. Save results to cache: python3 bin/cache.py store wikipedia "<query>" "<results_json>"
  5. Return normalized results: {title, url, snippet, source_type: "wikipedia", credibility_tier: 2, pageid, lang, extract}

Use for: factual/encyclopedic topics — history, science, biographies, concepts, geography, technology overviews. Avoid for: very recent events (Wikipedia lags real-time), niche technical code questions.

academic

  1. Check search cache first: python3 bin/cache.py check academic "<query>"
  2. Use python3 bin/search-academic.py search "<query>" --top 5
  3. Optionally pass --year-min / --year-max for date filtering
  4. Save results to cache: python3 bin/cache.py store academic "<query>" "<results_json>"
  5. Return normalized results: {title, url, snippet, source_type: "academic", credibility_tier: 1, year, authors, doi}

Use for: research papers, scientific topics, formal publications, technical surveys. Avoid for: recent news, code/libraries, general knowledge.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 67 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 948c6a6e41d1

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search-channel is an agent published in the GitHub repository Oshayr/LLM-Wiki (49 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 807 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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