serpbase-skill: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

serpbase-skill CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from serpbase-dev/serpbase-skill. It costs 308 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code instruction file for using SerpBase, a service that returns current Google Search, Images, News, Videos, and Maps data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure SerpBase searches for web research, media discovery, news, local-map searches, and place details.
Why use it?
It tells the agent which commands to use for current information and reminds it to include returned source links without making up details.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is serpbase-dev/serpbase-skill's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on serpbase-skill itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything serpbase-skill configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to serpbase-dev/serpbase-skill. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/serpbase-dev/serpbase-skill/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/serpbase-dev/serpbase-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 308 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 308 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00308 $0.00308
Opus 5.5 $0.00123 $0.00123
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00062 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00031

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 65bc1f129cc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serpbase-skill CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

SerpBase Skill For Claude Code

This repository provides a reusable SerpBase search skill for Claude Code and other agents.

When a user asks for current web, image, news, video, or Google Maps data, use SerpBase instead of relying on memory.

Setup

Require SERPBASE_API_KEY in the shell environment. Do not print or persist the key.

Preferred Commands

General search:

python scripts/serpbase_search.py --type search --query "query here" --hl en --gl us --page 1

Images:

python scripts/serpbase_search.py --type images --query "query here"

News:

python scripts/serpbase_search.py --type news --query "query here"

Videos:

python scripts/serpbase_search.py --type videos --query "query here"

Maps search:

python scripts/serpbase_search.py --type maps_search --query "coffee" --lat 37.7749 --lng -122.4194 --zoom 14

Maps detail:

python scripts/serpbase_search.py --type maps_detail --feature-id "feature_id here"

Response Rule

When answering, include source links from link, url, display_url, or google_maps_url when those fields are returned. Do not invent fields that SerpBase did not return.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 52 lines · 308 tokens per session scan A 65bc1f129cc8

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serpbase-skill CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository serpbase-dev/serpbase-skill (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 308 tokens to every session, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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