web-reading

web-reading is a skill for Claude Code from AxGord/claude-workflow. It costs 9 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for fetching information from websites through separate helper agents. It gives instructions for choosing suitable tools and extracting only the needed content.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps retrieve focused information from GitHub, package registries, local files, and other web sources.
Why use it?
It keeps long web pages and search results from filling the main conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the workflow plugin — 28 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/axgord/claude-workflow/web-reading
Any agent
npx skills add AxGord/claude-workflow --skill web-reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AxGord/claude-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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 web-reading

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/axgord/claude-workflow/web-reading.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/axgord/claude-workflow/web-reading)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/axgord/claude-workflow/web-reading"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/axgord/claude-workflow/web-reading.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 613 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 5.1 $0.00009 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00061

Measured 5d ago against content hash d53b178a2691, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-reading 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 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.

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.

templates/skills/web-reading/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Goal: protect main context from web content bloat

Every web fetch goes through a subagent (Agent tool) with a precise extraction prompt — ALWAYS specify exactly what to extract, never "get the page content" or "summarize this page". Never put raw web content into main conversation context.

Subagents run in the background by default — pass run_in_background: false when the fetched result gates your next step.

Note: WebFetch/WebSearch may be deferred tools — load them via ToolSearch (select:WebFetch,WebSearch) before first use.

Step 1: Source-specific tools (no fetch needed)

Pick the right tool before reaching for the web:

  • GitHub repos/issues/PRs → gh CLI
  • GitHub raw file URLs (.md, .json, .yaml, .txt, etc.) → gh api or direct WebFetch
  • npm packages → npm info <pkg>
  • PyPI packages → pip index versions <pkg> or the PyPI JSON API (https://pypi.org/pypi/<pkg>/json) — pip show only reports the locally installed version, not what's available
  • Local files → Read tool

If none apply → Step 2.

Step 2: Direct WebFetch via subagent

Subagent uses WebFetch with a strict prompt:

"Extract ONLY the main article content as clean markdown. Ignore navigation, sidebars, headers, footers, ads, cookie banners. Return structured content with headings, code blocks, and lists."

Use WebFetch for raw files too (.md, .json, .yaml, .txt, .xml, .csv).

Step 3: Jina Reader fallback (HTML pages only)

If WebFetch failed or returned junk (bot walls, heavily scripted pages), Jina converts HTML → clean markdown:

https://r.jina.ai/<original-url>
  • HTML pages ONLY — never raw files (Step 2 handles those)
  • NEVER route URLs containing tokens, secrets, or signed parameters through r.jina.ai — it is a third-party service and sees the full URL

Step 4: WebSearch

If the page itself is inaccessible — search for the same content in mirrors, official docs, blogs, cached versions.

Step 5: Browser MCP, if available (last resort)

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 5d ago First seen · 71 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A d53b178a2691

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository AxGord/claude-workflow (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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