google-web-search

google-web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore. It costs 11 tokens per session (298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Google-based web search service that can also return image results. It searches for pages matching a query and provides their titles, links, and summaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for targeted web searches, exact-phrase searches, research, and finding images alongside ordinary search results.
Why use it?
It gives you a way to find online information and related images from the coding-agent environment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

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

Good fit Use it for targeted web searches, exact-phrase searches, research, and finding images alongside ordinary search results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore/google-web-search
About the project

Sample Strands Agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is an end-to-end reference architecture for building multi-agent chatbots on AWS. Teams use it to explore agent orchestration, tool execution, memory, browser automation, and agent-to-agent collaboration with Strands Agents and Bedrock AgentCore.

aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore · 197 stars · on GitHub

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 aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore --skill google-web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 298 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 $0.00011 $0.00298
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00119
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 47a905f91f2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-web-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 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.

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.

chatbot-app/agentcore/skills/google-web-search/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Available Tools

  • google_web_search(query, include_images?): Search the web using Google Custom Search. Returns results with titles, snippets, links, and optional image results.
    • query (string, required): Search query
    • include_images (boolean, optional, default: true): Include image results alongside web results

Usage Guidelines

  • Formulate clear, specific search queries for best results.
  • Use quotes for exact phrase matching (e.g., "machine learning" best practices 2025).
  • For comprehensive research, perform multiple targeted searches rather than one broad query.
  • Image results are included by default. Set include_images=false for text-only searches.

Citation Format

When presenting information from search results, wrap every specific claim in <cite> tags:

<cite source="SOURCE_TITLE" url="URL">claim text</cite>

Rules:

  • Cite factual claims, statistics, quotes, and specific information from search results.
  • The source attribute should contain the title or name of the source.
  • The url attribute should contain the source URL when available.
  • Do NOT cite your own reasoning or general knowledge.
  • If search results don't contain relevant information, inform the user rather than guessing.
  • Use the minimum number of citations necessary to support claims.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 36 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 47a905f91f2a

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google-web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws-samples/sample-strands-agent-with-agentcore (197 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 298 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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