algolia-search

algolia-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benjaminasterA/antigravity-awesome-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (462 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to adding Algolia, a hosted search service, to an application. It covers search boxes, filtering, result pages, server-rendered Next.js search, and keeping the search index updated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build type-ahead search, facet filters, paginated results, Next.js search pages, and processes for replacing or updating indexed records.
Why use it?
It helps solve common problems such as stale search data, awkward filtering, missing pagination, and search pages that do not work correctly during server rendering.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build type-ahead search, facet filters, paginated results, Next.js search pages, and processes for replacing or updating indexed records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benjaminastera/antigravity-awesome-skills/algolia-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add benjaminasterA/antigravity-awesome-skills --skill algolia-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benjaminasterA/antigravity-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 462 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 $0.00041 $0.00462
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00046

Measured 11d ago against content hash afbad5a17129, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

algolia-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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

7 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/algolia-search/SKILL.md · 71 lines

What it actually says

Algolia Search Integration

Patterns

React InstantSearch with Hooks

Modern React InstantSearch setup using hooks for type-ahead search.

Uses react-instantsearch-hooks-web package with algoliasearch client. Widgets are components that can be customized with classnames.

Key hooks:

  • useSearchBox: Search input handling
  • useHits: Access search results
  • useRefinementList: Facet filtering
  • usePagination: Result pagination
  • useInstantSearch: Full state access

Next.js Server-Side Rendering

SSR integration for Next.js with react-instantsearch-nextjs package.

Use instead of for SSR. Supports both Pages Router and App Router (experimental).

Key considerations:

  • Set dynamic = 'force-dynamic' for fresh results
  • Handle URL synchronization with routing prop
  • Use getServerState for initial state

Data Synchronization and Indexing

Indexing strategies for keeping Algolia in sync with your data.

Three main approaches:

  1. Full Reindexing - Replace entire index (expensive)
  2. Full Record Updates - Replace individual records
  3. Partial Updates - Update specific attributes only

Best practices:

  • Batch records (ideal: 10MB, 1K-10K records per batch)
  • Use incremental updates when possible
  • partialUpdateObjects for attribute-only changes
  • Avoid deleteBy (computationally expensive)

⚠️ Sharp Edges

Issue Severity Solution
Issue critical See docs
Issue high See docs
Issue medium See docs
Issue medium See docs
Issue medium See docs
Issue medium See docs
Issue medium See docs
Issue medium See docs

When to Use

This skill is applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview.

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. 11d ago First seen · 71 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A afbad5a17129

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algolia-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository benjaminasterA/antigravity-awesome-skills (264 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 462 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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