web-search-researcher

web-search-researcher is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching topics with web search and current online sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find authoritative sources, check their dates and relevance, compare information, and summarize supported findings.
Why use it?
It helps fill gaps when existing knowledge may be outdated or insufficient, especially for modern software documentation, practices, and technical solutions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It helps find authoritative sources, check their dates and relevance, compare information, and summarize supported findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents/web-search-researcher
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 d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents --skill web-search-researcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,368 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00070 $0.01368
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00684
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00137

Measured 10d ago against content hash 38e06f73dcf0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-search-researcher 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 10d 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.

.agents/skills/web-search-researcher/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Search Research

Find accurate, relevant information from web sources.

When to Use

  • Modern information not in training data
  • Official documentation for APIs/libraries
  • Best practices and recommendations
  • Technical solutions
  • Technology comparisons

Date Context

CRITICAL: Check <env> for current date.

  • Include current year in searches
  • Evaluate freshness (12-18 months = recent)

Core Process

1. Analyze Query

Identify key terms, source types, search angles.

2. Strategic Searches

  • Start broad, refine
  • Multiple variations
  • Site-specific searches

3. Fetch Content

  • WebFetch promising results
  • Prioritize official docs
  • Note publication dates

4. Synthesize

  • Organize by relevance
  • Include quotes with links
  • Note gaps/conflicts

Search Strategies

API Documentation

"[library] official docs [feature]"
site:docs.stripe.com webhook

Best Practices

"Rust async" best practices 2026

Technical Solutions

"tokio panic" redb write
site:github.com tokio spawn_blocking

Comparisons

"redb vs sled" performance

Progressive Strategy

Round 1 (5 min): 1-2 broad searches. If official docs → stop.

Round 2 (10 min): 2-3 specific searches, fetch 2-3 sources. If consensus → stop.

Round 3 (15 min): Fill gaps, synthesize.

Rule: Most complete in Round 2.

Source Priority

⭐⭐⭐ Fetch First: Official docs, GitHub maintainers, recent experts

⭐⭐ Fetch If Needed: Expert blogs, high-vote SO, conference talks

⭐ Skip: Generic tutorials, old posts, no author

🚫 Never: AI farms, aggregators

Search Operators

Operator Example
"exact" "async runtime"
-term rust -game
site: site:docs.rs
after: async after:2024

Output Format

## Summary
[2-3 sentences]

## Findings

### [Source 1]
**Source**: [Link]
**Key Info**:
- Quote/finding

### [Source 2]
**Source**: [Link]
**Key Info**:
- Finding

## Resources
- [Link] - Description

## Gaps
[What not found]

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 245 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 38e06f73dcf0

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web-search-researcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository d-o-hub/github-template-ai-agents (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,368 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.