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.
npx skills add Abruptive/Ankh.md --skill duckduckgo-searchgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abruptive/Ankh.mdWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/duckduckgo-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/duckduckgo-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/duckduckgo-search/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/duckduckgo-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abruptive/ankh.md/duckduckgo-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00040 | $0.00948 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00379 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00190 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00095 |
Grade A, and why
duckduckgo-search scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
2. **Extract** content using the `web_extract` tool (if available) or curl How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
DuckDuckGo Search (Firecrawl Fallback)
Free web search using DuckDuckGo. No API key required.
When to Use This
Use this skill ONLY when the web_search tool is not available (i.e., FIRECRAWL_API_KEY is not set). If web_search works, prefer it — it returns richer results with built-in content extraction.
Signs you need this fallback:
web_searchtool is not listed in your available toolsweb_searchreturns an error about missing FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
Setup
# Install the ddgs package (one-time)
pip install ddgs
Web Search (Primary Use Case)
Via Terminal (ddgs CLI)
# Basic search — returns titles, URLs, and snippets
ddgs text -k "python async programming" -m 5
# With region filter
ddgs text -k "best restaurants" -m 5 -r us-en
# Recent results only (d=day, w=week, m=month, y=year)
ddgs text -k "latest AI news" -m 5 -t w
# JSON output for parsing
ddgs text -k "fastapi tutorial" -m 5 -o json
Via Python (in execute_code)
from hermes_tools import terminal
# Search and get results
result = terminal("ddgs text -k 'python web framework comparison' -m 5")
print(result["output"])
CLI Flags
| Flag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
-k |
Keywords (query) — required | -k "search terms" |
-m |
Max results | -m 5 |
-r |
Region | -r us-en |
-t |
Time limit | -t w (week) |
-s |
Safe search | -s off |
-o |
Output format | -o json |
Other Search Types
# Image search
ddgs images -k "landscape photography" -m 10
# News search
ddgs news -k "artificial intelligence" -m 5
# Video search
ddgs videos -k "python tutorial" -m 5
Workflow: Search → Extract
DuckDuckGo finds URLs. To get full page content, follow up with web_extract:
- Search with ddgs to find relevant URLs
- Extract content using the
web_extracttool (if available) or curl
# Step 1: Find URLs
ddgs text -k "fastapi tutorial" -m 3
# Step 2: Extract full content from a result URL
# (use web_extract tool if available, otherwise curl)
curl -s "https://example.com/article" | head -200
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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 · 112 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 4b5bfd901c89
duckduckgo-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abruptive/Ankh.md (77 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 948 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
duckduckgo-search compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| duckduckgo-searchAbruptive/Ankh.md | Skill | 77 | 7mo ago | MIT | A | 40 | Claude Code, Codex |
| computer-usekirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 62 | Claude Code, Codex |
| feature-demo-recordingkirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 90 | Claude Code, Codex |
| browser-recordingkirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 64 | Claude Code, Codex |
| web-verifykirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 0 | Claude Code, Codex |
| web-previewkirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 68 | Claude Code, Codex |
| browser-authkirodotdev/KiroCrew | Skill | 4.8k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 58 | Claude Code, Codex |