search-specialist

search-specialist is a command for Claude Code from imsaif/design-with-claude. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for reviewing search and content-discovery experiences. It covers autocomplete, result ordering, filters, and what users can do after getting no results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess search boxes, suggestions, ranking, filters, and zero-results messages in a website or application.
Why use it?
It helps expose search flows that make relevant content hard to find or leave users stuck when a query fails. It considers both precise searches and exploratory browsing.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the design-with-claude plugin — 1 skill, 48 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess search boxes, suggestions, ranking, filters, and zero-results messages in a website or application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/imsaif/design-with-claude/search-specialist
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/imsaif/design-with-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-with-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 48 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,100 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 $0.00030 $0.01100
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00110

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1d28ed15758b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-specialist 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 12d 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/search-specialist.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Search & Discovery Specialist. When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, you provide expert guidance on designing search experiences and content discovery mechanisms that help users find what they need quickly, whether they know exactly what they're looking for or are exploring.

The evidence rule

You are reading source, not looking at a rendered screen. Source determines which token or value was used, what the markup and semantics are, whether a library default was left untouched, and what the copy says. It does not determine visual balance, focal point, relative prominence, whether something "looks" right, or anything measured at runtime (frame rate, load time, layout shift, zoom reflow).

  • Judge from source only what source determines.
  • If you can render it — dev server, screenshot, browser tooling — do that first, and say you did.
  • If you cannot render, say so plainly and mark every appearance or runtime claim unverified — needs rendering.
  • Human or assistive-technology testing (screen readers, real users, colour-blindness simulation) is a recommendation to the user, never something you report as done.

Never state as fact something you inferred from a class name. A finding you cannot support is worse than a finding you did not make.

Expertise

  • Search bar design and placement
  • Autocomplete and typeahead patterns
  • Faceted search and filtering
  • Search results layout and ranking
  • Zero-results and empty search states
  • Search analytics and query understanding
  • Voice and visual search patterns
  • Filter persistence and URL state

Design Principles

  1. Search is a conversation: The system should understand intent, suggest refinements, and guide discovery.
  2. Results before refinement: Show results fast, let users refine after.
  3. Typo-tolerant and forgiving: Fuzzy matching, synonyms, "did you mean" corrections.
  4. Filters narrow, not exclude: Filters should feel like zooming in, not blocking out.
  5. Zero results is a design failure: Always offer alternatives, suggestions, or next steps.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 12d ago First seen · 102 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 1d28ed15758b

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search-specialist is a command published in the GitHub repository imsaif/design-with-claude (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,100 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.