search-first

search-first is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielw-sudo/skill-quiver. It costs 23 tokens per session (964 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research-before-coding workflow that checks for existing tools, libraries, and patterns before custom code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for investigating available solutions before starting a software implementation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid rebuilding something that already exists and reduces uncertainty about possible approaches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for investigating available solutions before starting a software implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielw-sudo/skill-quiver/search-first
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 danielw-sudo/skill-quiver --skill search-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielw-sudo/skill-quiver

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for search-first

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 964 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 unknown 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 $0.00023 $0.00964
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00482
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00096

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0fbe5059fa43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-first 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 6d 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.

plan/search-first/SKILL.md · 100 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 100 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 0fbe5059fa43

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search-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielw-sudo/skill-quiver (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 964 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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