A web-search add-on for coding agents that searches multiple engines, fetches pages as clean Markdown, and looks up arXiv papers and GitHub repositories. It needs internet access but no API keys.

Use it to research current information, read web pages, find academic papers, locate GitHub projects, or search through a self-hosted SearXNG service.

It removes the need to configure separate search services or manually clean downloaded web pages. It can also provide an optional Tor route for .onion sites.

web-search — Plugin for Claude Code by hec-ovi/websearch-skill

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/hec-ovi/websearch-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.

When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 2 skills, 1 MCP server cost 302 tokens a session between them.

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.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-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 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-plugin/plugin.json · 24 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "web-search",
  "displayName": "Web Search",
  "version": "0.6.1",
  "description": "Keyless multi-engine web search, clean-Markdown fetch, and paginated read for AI agents, plus arxiv and github lookup. Bundles two portable SKILLs (clearnet and Tor), a websearch CLI with a one-call init, a self-hosted SearXNG that needs no Docker, an optional egress proxy (NordVPN SOCKS5), an optional Tor layer for .onion search and fetch, and a doctor that self-tests every engine. Needs internet; no API keys.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Hector Oviedo",
    "url": "https://github.com/hec-ovi"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/hec-ovi/websearch-skill",
  "repository": "https://github.com/hec-ovi/websearch-skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "web-search",
    "web-fetch",
    "ai-agents",
    "agent-skills",
    "searxng",
    "keyless",
    "tor",
    "onion-search"
  ]
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 2 skills, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 302 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

marketplace.json 1.2 KB

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.

2mo ago First seen · 24 lines scan A 9aa4e115023b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-search is a plugin published in the GitHub repository hec-ovi/websearch-skill (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.

Research agent-skills ai-agents ddgs rank-fusion searxng

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