duckduckgo-search

duckduckgo-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aaronnat23/disp8ch. It costs 0 tokens per session (108 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lightweight workflow for quickly searching public websites for facts, with stronger sources used when the answer matters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for quick public-web lookups, early discovery, and finding likely sources before doing broader research.
Why use it?
It provides a fast first search while recognising that search results may need confirmation from original or authoritative sources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for quick public-web lookups, early discovery, and finding likely sources before doing broader research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aaronnat23/disp8ch/duckduckgo-search
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 aaronnat23/disp8ch --skill duckduckgo-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aaronnat23/disp8ch

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 duckduckgo-search

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for duckduckgo-search

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 108 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00000 $0.00108
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00054
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00011

Measured 12d ago against content hash f3b69dded0d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

duckduckgo-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 12d 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.

optional-skills/duckduckgo-search/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Use lightweight web search when the task needs public facts quickly without a heavy research workflow.

Use when

  • The user needs a quick public-web lookup.
  • You want a low-friction search path before broader multi-source research.

Workflow

  1. Use search for quick discovery, not final authority.
  2. Promote primary sources once the likely target is known.
  3. Keep citations or source references when the result drives a concrete action.
  4. Escalate to structured web research when ambiguity stays high.
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. 12d ago First seen · 14 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f3b69dded0d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

duckduckgo-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository aaronnat23/disp8ch (100 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 108 tokens. 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.