agentic-search

agentic-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from appautomaton/webmaton. It costs 103 tokens per session (839 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research tool that searches the web, fetches pages, maps websites, extracts quotes, and ranks sources. It stores research sessions so results can be retrieved later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a topic, fetch a page as Markdown, list a website's URLs, extract quoted passages, or rerank sources for a refined question.
Why use it?
It organizes multi-step web research and provides source material for answers that need current or verifiable information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/appautomaton/webmaton/agentic-search
Any agent
npx skills add appautomaton/webmaton --skill agentic-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appautomaton/webmaton

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 agentic-search

README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 839 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00103 $0.00839
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00084

Measured 4d ago against content hash f1504010e1d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 9 executable files (scripts/_http.py, scripts/_prompts.py, scripts/_session.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.

skills/agentic-search/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

# Script Intent
1 scripts/agentic_search.py Research a topic — AI-reasoned answer with citations
2 scripts/agentic_fetch.py Full page → Markdown, no summarization
3 scripts/agentic_map.py Enumerate URLs under a site (Tavily-only)
4 scripts/agentic_extract.py Verbatim title + 2–4 quotes from a URL
5 scripts/agentic_rank.py Rerank session sources by a refined query
6 scripts/agentic_get_sources.py Retrieve or list cached sessions

How to invoke

All scripts use PEP 723 inline deps — always invoke via uv run. Allow up to 3 minutes per call.

uv run scripts/agentic_search.py --query "..." [--extra-sources N] [--auto-fetch-top N] [--platform "..."]
uv run scripts/agentic_fetch.py --url "..." [--engine auto|tavily|firecrawl|grok]
uv run scripts/agentic_map.py --url "..." [--instructions "..."] [--limit N]
uv run scripts/agentic_extract.py --url "..." [--session-id S]
uv run scripts/agentic_rank.py --query "..." --session-id S
uv run scripts/agentic_get_sources.py --list | --session-id S

Session workflow

agentic_search generates a session_id persisted to disk — the connective tissue for composing steps:

agentic_search → session_id
     ├─→ agentic_rank --session-id S --query Q     (rerank in place; mutates session)
     ├─→ agentic_extract --session-id S --url U    (append verbatim quotes)
     └─→ agentic_get_sources --session-id S        (inspect full session)

Sessions survive between invocations but may be cleared on OS reboot.

Operating discipline

Load the relevant reference before composing a non-trivial query — don't load all four upfront.

  • references/search-discipline.md — two-pass methodology, citation contract, time-context heuristic. Read for research tasks.
  • references/fetch-fidelity.md — engine trade-offs, fidelity guarantees, when not to fetch. Read before presenting extracted content.
  • references/extract-and-rank.md — extract vs fetch, when to rank, session composition patterns. Read for multi-step workflows.
  • references/provider-quirks.md — env vars, provider schemas, retry policy, debugging. Read when configuring or debugging.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 59 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A f1504010e1d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agentic-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository appautomaton/webmaton (19 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 839 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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