ddg-baseline

ddg-baseline is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from HasData/duckduckgo-mcp. It costs 13 tokens per session (294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command workflow for reporting DuckDuckGo's unpersonalised search ranking for a query. It asks for a query and region, then lists organic results, ads, Search Assist, and additional pages separately.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect search rankings for a region, judge whether results really cover a query, report advertisers separately, and continue through paginated results.
Why use it?
A search page can contain weak matches, advertisements, and answer summaries that are easy to confuse with ordinary results. This workflow makes the report clearer and avoids claiming that it represents every user's results.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Cursor and Claude Code: shipped in a Cursor plugin, but also a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Part of the hasdata-duckduckgo-mcp plugin — 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect search rankings for a region, judge whether results really cover a query, report advertisers separately, and continue through paginated results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/hasdata/duckduckgo-mcp/ddg-baseline
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/HasData/duckduckgo-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install hasdata-duckduckgo-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 294 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 $0.00013 $0.00294
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00118
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00029

Measured 23d ago against content hash e47f2f2c3363, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ddg-baseline 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 23d 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.

commands/ddg-baseline.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Take a query and report the ranking DuckDuckGo shows, as a baseline no account personalised.

Ask me for the query and the region if I have not given them. Region goes in kl, written the way DuckDuckGo writes it, such as us-en.

Then:

  1. Call hasdata_duckduckgo_serp_getSearchResults with q and kl.
  2. List the organic results as position, title and domain, and say how many came back rather than assuming ten.
  3. Read the results before reporting them. DuckDuckGo fills the page whether or not anything matches, so if the entries are only loosely related, say the query has no real coverage instead of presenting them as a ranking.
  4. If the ads block is present, list the advertisers separately from the organic set so the two never blur.
  5. If searchAssist is present, quote it and name the sources it leans on.
  6. Page with nextPageToken when I ask for more, and pass the token on its own with no q beside it. Positions restart at 1 on each page, so absolute rank is the count already collected plus position.

Do not describe this as what everyone sees, and do not compare it to another engine unless that engine's results are also in front of you.

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. 23d ago First seen · 19 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A e47f2f2c3363

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ddg-baseline is a command published in the GitHub repository HasData/duckduckgo-mcp (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 294 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-23.