search

search is a command for coding agents from VasiHemanth/grok-build-plugin. It costs 19 tokens per session (274 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that uses Grok to search the web and X, formerly Twitter, in real time and return a sourced summary. It can run searches in the foreground or as background jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research live web information or posts on X. It also supports background searches whose status and result can be checked later.
Why use it?
It helps answer questions about current events, recent package information, or public online discussion without relying only on an AI’s older knowledge. The returned answer already includes sources and a session identifier for follow-up searches.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the grok plugin — 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/vasihemanth/grok-build-plugin/search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VasiHemanth/grok-build-plugin

Or install grok, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/vasihemanth/grok-build-plugin/search.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/vasihemanth/grok-build-plugin/search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/vasihemanth/grok-build-plugin/search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/vasihemanth/grok-build-plugin/search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 274 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00019 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2fd5f3513edc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search 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 5d 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.

plugins/grok/commands/search.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Grok has native, real-time access to X (x.com) and the web. This is its specialty. Use this command to answer questions that need current, social, or breaking information.

Raw user request: $ARGUMENTS

Run the search through the Grok companion:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/grok-companion.mjs" search $ARGUMENTS

Rules:

  • --background runs the search detached; report the job id and that the user can check /grok:status and /grok:result. Otherwise run in the foreground and return Grok's answer.
  • --model is a runtime control; keep it on the command but do not treat it as part of the query text.
  • Return the companion's stdout verbatim: it already includes the answer, a Sources list, and a session id for follow-ups. Do not paraphrase or add commentary.
  • If the companion reports Grok is missing or not logged in, tell the user to run /grok:setup.
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. 5d ago First seen · 25 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 2fd5f3513edc

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search is a command published in the GitHub repository VasiHemanth/grok-build-plugin (25 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 274 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.