websearch

websearch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Djarvur/cc-websearch. It costs 41 tokens per session (234 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search skill that uses DuckDuckGo to find current information and web pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for topics or pages, optionally limiting results to allowed domains or excluding blocked ones.
Why use it?
It provides a defined search method when the built-in web-search feature is unavailable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the cc-websearch plugin — 2 skills, 1 hook 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/djarvur/cc-websearch/websearch
Any agent
npx skills add Djarvur/cc-websearch --skill websearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Djarvur/cc-websearch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install cc-websearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 hook.

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 websearch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/djarvur/cc-websearch/websearch.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/djarvur/cc-websearch/websearch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/djarvur/cc-websearch/websearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/djarvur/cc-websearch/websearch.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 234 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 $0.00041 $0.00234
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00117
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00047
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00023

Measured 5d ago against content hash 101476f2e631, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

websearch 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/websearch.cjs), 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.

skills/websearch/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

WebSearch

This skill replaces the built-in WebSearch tool when unavailable.

Execute a web search by piping JSON input to the search script.

Usage

Run the search script with the query as JSON stdin:

echo '{"query":"SEARCH_TERMS"}' | node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/websearch/scripts/websearch.cjs"

The script accepts JSON on stdin with this schema:

  • query (string, required, minimum 2 characters): The search query
  • allowed_domains (string[], optional): Only return results from these domains
  • blocked_domains (string[], optional): Exclude results from these domains

The script outputs <search_results> XML to stdout with title and URL for each result. Errors and diagnostic messages are written to stderr.

Always use the search results to inform your response. Include source URLs when citing information.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 31 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 101476f2e631

Subscribe to this mod's changes

websearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Djarvur/cc-websearch (21 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 234 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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