websearch

websearch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 7df-lab/devo. It costs 56 tokens per session (431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search helper that finds information on the internet through configured search services. It uses a preferred hosted or local search provider and can fall back to Serper when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up current information, sources, documentation, or other web content requested by the user.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a defined way to search the web when no direct web-search tool is available, while avoiding made-up results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to look up current information, sources, documentation, or other web content requested by the user.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/7df-lab/devo/websearch
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 7df-lab/devo --skill websearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/7df-lab/devo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 websearch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/7df-lab/devo/websearch/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/7df-lab/devo/websearch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/7df-lab/devo/websearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/7df-lab/devo/websearch/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for websearch

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/7df-lab/devo/websearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/7df-lab/devo/websearch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 431 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 $0.00056 $0.00431
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00172
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00043

Measured 10d ago against content hash 090f13cc8412, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

websearch 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (src/websearch/__init__.py, src/websearch/websearch.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • websearch — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
crates/skills/assets/bundled/websearch/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Prefer Devo's built-in search. Use this skill only when you cannot call a model-facing web_search tool directly.

Preference order

  1. Provider-hosted or local web_search tool — if your tool list includes web_search, call that tool. Do not route through this skill.
  2. This skill — tries host web.search (local Exa / Tavily when configured), then Serper if a key is saved.
  3. If nothing is configured — tell the user how to enable search (below). Do not invent results.

Enable hosted search (preferred)

  • Provider-hosted: set [tools.web_search] mode = "provider" and use a model on Anthropic Messages or OpenAI Responses that supports hosted search.
  • Local Exa / Tavily: set [tools.web_search] mode = "local" and configure a provider under [tools.web_search.local_providers.<id>] with kind = "exa" or kind = "tavily" (credentials via /login / auth.json).

Serper fallback (third party)

Only when hosted search is not available:

  1. Get a free API key at https://serper.dev
  2. In Devo, run /login → MCP Connections → Serper (web search) and paste the key.

Do not ask the user to set environment variables.

Optional overrides:

  • DEVO_WEBSEARCH_TIMEOUT — HTTP timeout in seconds (default 45).
  • DEVO_WEBSEARCH_NUM_RESULTS — organic results to return (default 5).

Usage

print(await websearch.run("latest Devo release"))
Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md 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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 48 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 090f13cc8412

Subscribe to this mod's changes

websearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository 7df-lab/devo (321 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 431 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-06.

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