search-first

search-first is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aman-2709/superpowers-ecc. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,396 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A research-first workflow that checks for existing tools, libraries, and coding patterns before custom code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a coding task and deciding whether to adopt an existing tool, library, or pattern.
Why use it?
It helps avoid rebuilding something that already exists and reduces unnecessary custom implementation work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the superpowers-ecc plugin — 24 skills, 24 commands, 7 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aman-2709/superpowers-ecc/search-first
Any agent
npx skills add aman-2709/superpowers-ecc --skill search-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aman-2709/superpowers-ecc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install superpowers-ecc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 24 commands, 7 agents, 3 hooks.

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 search-first

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aman-2709/superpowers-ecc/search-first.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aman-2709/superpowers-ecc/search-first)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aman-2709/superpowers-ecc/search-first"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aman-2709/superpowers-ecc/search-first.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,396 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00023 $0.01396
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00140

Measured 5d ago against content hash dd932b232f0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

search-first scanned grade B 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 5d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

2. Is there an MCP for this? → Check `~/.claude/settings.json` and search
skills/search-first/SKILL.md · 155 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 155 lines · 23 tokens per session scan B dd932b232f0b

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search-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository aman-2709/superpowers-ecc (12 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,396 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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