searxngcli

A command-line interface for searching the web through SearXNG, a search service that combines results from multiple search engines. It returns machine-readable JSON and supports filters such as category, language, engine, and time range.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find general, news, image, video, music, file, science, technical, or social-media results, including searches limited to a website.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to search online and process the results in automated workflows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the searxngcli plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent 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/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins/searxngcli
Any agent
npx skills add fprochazka/claude-code-plugins --skill searxngcli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install searxngcli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 1 agent.

Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 990 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 $0.00080 $0.00990
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00099

Measured 2d ago against content hash 32376e5c8c0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

searxngcli 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 2d 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.

plugins/searxngcli/skills/searxngcli/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

searxngcli

Search the web via a private SearXNG metasearch engine instance using the searxng CLI.

SearXNG aggregates results from multiple search engines (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.) and supports engine-specific operators like site:, filetype:, intitle: — these are passed through to backend engines as-is.

Usage

Always use --json for machine-readable output. Always quote the query string.

# Basic search
searxng search "python asyncio" --json

# Filter by category (general, images, news, videos, music, files, it, science, social media)
searxng search "breaking news" --categories news --json

# Filter by specific engines
searxng search "rust" --engines google,duckduckgo --json

# Filter by time range (day, week, month, year)
searxng search "latest updates" --time-range week --json

# Combine filters
searxng search "climate change" --categories news --time-range month --num 20 --json

# Use search engine operators (passed through to engines)
searxng search "site:github.com python cli" --json

Search Options

Flag Description
--categories Comma-separated categories
--engines Comma-separated engines
--language Language code (en, de, cs, etc.)
--num Number of results (default: 10)
--page Page number (default: 1)
--time-range day, week, month, year
--safe-search 0=off, 1=moderate, 2=strict
--json Raw JSON output

Discovery

# List available engines on the instance
searxng engines

# List available categories
searxng categories

Output Format

The --json output is a JSON object with these top-level fields:

{
  "query": "search terms",
  "number_of_results": 100,
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "asyncio — Asynchronous I/O — Python 3.14.3 documentation",
      "url": "https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html",
      "content": "asyncio is a library to write concurrent code using the async/await syntax...",
      "engine": "google",
      "engines": ["braveapi", "google", "startpage"],
      "category": "general",
      "score": 9.0,
      "published_date": "2025-07-30T00:00:00",
      "thumbnail": ""
    }
  ],
  "suggestions": ["related query 1", "related query 2"],
  "corrections": []
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 103 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 32376e5c8c0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

searxngcli is a skill published in the GitHub repository fprochazka/claude-code-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 990 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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