web-search

web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from freestylefly/wesight. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,813 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of web-search, MIT.

A skill that searches the live web through a browser. It can retrieve current pages and information instead of relying only on the agent's stored knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up current software documentation, recent news, project discussions, stock prices, weather, sports results, or solutions to technical problems.
Why use it?
It helps when information may have changed or when the agent needs to check a specific website, document, news item, price, or error message.

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/freestylefly/wesight/web-search
Any agent
npx skills add freestylefly/wesight --skill web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/freestylefly/wesight

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/freestylefly/wesight/web-search.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/freestylefly/wesight/web-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/freestylefly/wesight/web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/freestylefly/wesight/web-search.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 3,813 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.03813
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01906
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00763
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00381

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8e86305ec266, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

web-search scanned grade B with 2 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 13 executable files (scripts/search.sh, scripts/start-server.sh, scripts/stop-server.sh, …), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Linux: `sudo apt install chromium-browser`

Makes network callslowCapability

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

CONNECTION_ID=$(curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8923/api/browser/connect \
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to web-search — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

SKILLs/web-search/SKILL.md · 562 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 562 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Search Skill

When to Use This Skill

Use the web-search skill when you need:

  • Current information - Events, news, or data after January 2025
  • Latest documentation - Up-to-date framework/library docs (React 19, Next.js 15, etc.)
  • Real-time data - Stock prices, weather, sports scores, etc.
  • Fact verification - Check current status of projects, companies, or technologies
  • Recent discussions - Community opinions, GitHub issues, Stack Overflow answers
  • Product comparisons - Latest reviews and comparisons
  • Troubleshooting - Search for specific error messages or solutions

Examples of when to use:

  • User: "What are the new features in React 19?"
  • User: "Search for the latest Next.js App Router documentation"
  • User: "What's the current status of the Rust async project?"
  • User: "Find recent discussions about Vue 3 performance"

How It Works

┌──────────┐    Bash    ┌─────────┐    HTTP    ┌──────────────┐    CDP    ┌────────┐
│  Claude  │───────────▶│ CLI.sh  │───────────▶│ Bridge Server│──────────▶│ Chrome │
│          │            │         │            │ (localhost)  │ Playwright│        │
└──────────┘            └─────────┘            └──────────────┘            └────────┘
                                                      │
                                                  ▼
                                             Google/Bing Search
                                                Extract Results

Architecture:

  1. CLI Script - Simple bash interface for Claude
  2. Bridge Server - Express HTTP API (auto-started by Electron)
  3. Playwright Manager - Browser connection and session management
  4. Search Engine Layer - Google primary, Bing fallback
  5. Chrome Browser - Visible browser window (all operations transparent)

Basic Usage

Simple Search (Recommended)

IMPORTANT: Always use the $SKILLS_ROOT environment variable to locate the skill scripts. This ensures the skill works in both development and production environments.

Read the full file on GitHub · 562 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. 5d ago First seen · 562 lines · 41 tokens per session scan B 8e86305ec266

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository freestylefly/wesight (908 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,813 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to web-search, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.