A plugin that connects an agent to a web search and page-reading service. It covers general web results, news, papers, people, places, patents, and posts on X, a social network.

Use it for web research, finding sources or papers, checking recent news, and reading the text of a URL.

It lets an agent gather current information and read web pages from one connection instead of using separate tools. Searches are charged to the organisation selected during sign-in.

metasearch — Plugin for Gemini CLI by paperfoot/search-cli

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/paperfoot/search-cli

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/paperfoot/search-cli/gemini-extension/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/paperfoot/search-cli/gemini-extension)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/paperfoot/search-cli/gemini-extension"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/paperfoot/search-cli/gemini-extension/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/paperfoot/search-cli/gemini-extension"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/paperfoot/search-cli/gemini-extension.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

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

When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.

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

metasearch 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 4d 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.

gemini-extension.json · 12 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "metasearch",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "description": "Search the web, news, papers, people, places, patents and X posts, and read any page, through metasearch.sh. Sign in on first use with /mcp auth metasearch; searches are charged to the organisation you choose.",
  "mcpServers": {
    "metasearch": {
      "httpUrl": "https://metasearch.sh/mcp"
    }
  },
  "contextFileName": "plugins/metasearch/skills/metasearch/SKILL.md"
}

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside gemini-extension.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.

assets/logo.jpeg 32 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.

4d ago First seen · 12 lines scan A aa204ade6fc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

metasearch is a plugin published in the GitHub repository paperfoot/search-cli (58 stars, last pushed 4d 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 2026-11-04.

Research ai-agent-tools brave-search cli-tool command-line-tool developer-tools exa

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