web-search

web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from emanuelcasco/pi-mono-extensions. It costs 37 tokens per session (482 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search add-on that searches DuckDuckGo and extracts readable text from web pages. It works without an external search API key.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for documentation, open web pages, verify current information, and read article content.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a way to find online information and read full pages when local documentation is unavailable or facts need checking.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search for documentation, open web pages, verify current information, and read article content.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/emanuelcasco/pi-mono-extensions/web-search
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 emanuelcasco/pi-mono-extensions --skill web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emanuelcasco/pi-mono-extensions

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.

agentmods badge for web-search

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 web-search

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 482 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 $0.00037 $0.00482
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00048

Measured 10d ago against content hash 68ad863e3628, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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.

extensions/web-search/skills/web-search/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

Search the web and read page content using DuckDuckGo and Mozilla Readability extraction.

Prerequisites

No external system tools are required. Search and page fetching use the Node.js runtime built into pi.

Tools

web_search

Search the web using DuckDuckGo. Returns titles, URLs, and content snippets.

When to use:

  • The user asks to find information online
  • Looking up documentation not available locally
  • Verifying facts or looking up recent data

Parameters:

  • query (string, required): Search query
  • maxResults (number, optional, default 5, max 10): How many results to return
  • maxResponseChars (number, optional): Truncate output to this many characters

Guidelines:

  • Always follow up with web_read if the user needs full page content
  • DuckDuckGo is used — no API key required
  • Rate limits apply; avoid rapid repeated queries

web_read

Fetch a web page and extract readable content.

When to use:

  • You need the full content of a specific page
  • Following up on a web_search result
  • Reading documentation or articles

Parameters:

  • url (string, required): Page URL (must be http: or https:)
  • maxChars (number, optional, default 8000, max 50000): How many characters of content to return
  • maxResponseChars (number, optional): Truncate output to this many characters

Guidelines:

  • Works best on article/blog pages
  • JavaScript-heavy SPAs may return limited content (no JS execution)
  • Private/internal URLs (localhost, 127.0.0.1, 169.254.x.x, etc.) are blocked for security

Limitations

  • No JavaScript rendering: Pages that require JS to load content will return incomplete results.
  • HTML only: PDFs or other binary formats are not supported.
  • DuckDuckGo rate limiting: Aggressive querying may be throttled.
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 · 65 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 68ad863e3628

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository emanuelcasco/pi-mono-extensions (100 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 482 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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