A skill that searches the live web and extracts article content through AnySearch or Tavily. Web search finds current information beyond the files available locally.

Use it to search the internet and retrieve text from web articles.

It helps answer questions that depend on recent online information or the contents of specific articles.

web-search — Skill for Claude Code by chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork

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 chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork --skill web-search

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/web-search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/web-search)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/web-search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork/web-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 498 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00018	$0.00498
Opus 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00199
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00100
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00050

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 40ace8f90c50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (impl.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.

ai_skills/web-search/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Web Search Skill

Use search_web and read_web_article for current internet information. The configured provider is used unless a call explicitly selects anysearch or tavily.

Provider rules

Never switch providers silently. If a provider fails, report its root cause and ask the user before explicitly retrying with the other provider.
Both providers support limited keyless access. Warn that rate limits and quotas are lower when auth_mode is keyless.
Use AnySearch vertical search for finance, academic, travel, health, code, legal, security, and other supported domains. Call get_web_search_sub_domains before the vertical search to obtain required parameters.
Use batch_search_web only with AnySearch and at most five queries.
Search queries, extracted URLs, and credentials are sent to the selected third-party provider. Do not send secrets or sensitive personal data.

AnySearch registration

register_anysearch_api_key creates an external account and persists a one-time credential. Before calling it, the AI must:

Explain that the email becomes the AnySearch username and a generated password is sent to it.
Obtain explicit consent both to create the account and to save the returned API Key locally.
Call the tool with user_confirmed=true only after that consent.

The tool never returns or logs the complete API Key. On success, tell the user to check both the inbox and spam folder for the generated password and verification email.

Compatibility

search_web and read_web_article keep the original Cowork tool names and normalized JSON response shape.
allowed_domains and blocked_domains are mutually exclusive.
Unsupported compatibility parameters fail explicitly; they are never ignored.
read_article remains a Python compatibility alias for read_web_article.

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 40ace8f90c50

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository chuancyzhang/deepseek-cowork (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 498 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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