webread

A skill for searching the web and extracting readable text from webpages using command-line tools. It includes scripts for macOS, Linux, Git Bash, and Windows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for webpages, fetch a URL, and extract the page’s text for an agent to read.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to find online information and remove page markup when reading a webpage. This can save manual copying and cleanup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/evalvis/webreadmcp/skill
Any agent
npx skills add EvalVis/webreadmcp --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EvalVis/webreadmcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 520 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00044 $0.00520
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured yesterday against content hash 9f9b01d3b754, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

webread scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/linux/web_search.sh, scripts/windows/web_search.bat, scripts/windows/web_search.ps1), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: Search the web and extract content from webpages using curl and bash/bat. Use when the user wants to search the web, look something up online, read a webpage, or extract information from a URL.
skill/SKILL.md · 74 lines

What it actually says

Web Read

Use the appropriate script for the OS. Pass the query and an optional search page number (most of the time there are lots of results and they are split to multiple pages. Page number defaults to 1).

Linux / macOS / Git Bash:

bash skill/scripts/linux/web_search.sh "your search query" [page]

Windows:

skill\scripts\windows\web_search.bat "your search query" [page]

Examples:

bash skill/scripts/linux/web_search.sh "rust async tutorial"
skill\scripts\windows\web_search.bat "python web frameworks" 2

Returns numbered titles with links.

Reading a Webpage

Non-raw HTML

Linux / macOS / Git Bash:

curl -s -L -A "Mozilla/5.0" "https://example.com" | sed 's/<script[^>]*>.*<\/script>//g; s/<style[^>]*>.*<\/style>//g; s/<[^>]*>//g; /^$/d'

Windows:

Note: the below command can be executed on CMD if before the command you type: powershell -NoProfile -Command and envelop the command in parenthesis

(curl.exe -s -L -A "Mozilla/5.0" "https://example.com") -replace '<script[^>]*>.*?</script>','' -replace '<style[^>]*>.*?</style>','' -replace '<[^>]*>','' | Where-Object { $_.Trim() }

Raw HTML

Linux / macOS / Git Bash:

curl -s -L -A "Mozilla/5.0" "https://example.com"

Windows:

curl.exe -s -L -A "Mozilla/5.0" "https://example.com"

Requirements

  • curl (pre-installed on modern Windows, macOS, and Linux)
  • Linux/macOS: bash

Installation

Copy the skill/ folder into your AI context folder.

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday First seen · 74 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 9f9b01d3b754

Subscribe to this mod's changes

webread is a skill published in the GitHub repository EvalVis/webreadmcp (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 520 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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