A web-search tool that finds text pages, news, and images through DuckDuckGo, with a self-hosted SearXNG option. SearXNG is search software you can run yourself.

Use it to search the web, find recent news, collect page links and summaries, or search for images.

It lets an agent look up current information without requiring a search API key. The self-hosted option can be used when you want more control over search requests.

web-search — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by fuyuxiang: A web-search tool that finds text pages, news, and…

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/fuyuxiang/echo-agent/web-search

Any agent

npx skills add fuyuxiang/echo-agent --skill web-search

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fuyuxiang/echo-agent

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fuyuxiang/echo-agent/web-search.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fuyuxiang/echo-agent/web-search)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fuyuxiang/echo-agent/web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fuyuxiang/echo-agent/web-search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 575 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00032	$0.00575
Opus 5	$0.00016	$0.00287
Sonnet 5	$0.00006	$0.00115
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00057

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7ee00a125ba3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

web-search scanned grade C 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 4d ago.

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

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s "http://localhost:8080/search?q=QUERY&format=json&engines=google,bing,duckduckgo" | python3 -m json.tool

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s "http://localhost:8080/search?q=QUERY&format=json&engines=google,bing,duckduckgo" | python3 -m json.tool

skills/research/web-search/SKILL.md · 81 lines

What it actually says

Web Search

Free web search without API keys. Two options: DuckDuckGo (zero config) or SearXNG (self-hosted).

DuckDuckGo (Primary)

Python library (recommended)

pip install duckduckgo_search

from duckduckgo_search import DDGS

# Text search
results = DDGS().text("query here", max_results=5)
for r in results:
    print(f"{r['title']}\n{r['href']}\n{r['body']}\n")

# News search
news = DDGS().news("AI agents", max_results=5)

# Image search
images = DDGS().images("cat meme", max_results=3)

CLI one-liner

python3 -c "
from duckduckgo_search import DDGS
for r in DDGS().text('$QUERY', max_results=5):
    print(f\"{r['title']}\n  {r['href']}\n  {r['body'][:100]}\n\")
"

Helper script

python3 scripts/web_search.py "your query" --max 5
python3 scripts/web_search.py "AI news" --type news
python3 scripts/web_search.py "cat" --type images

SearXNG (Self-hosted alternative)

For privacy or heavy usage, deploy your own SearXNG instance:

# JSON API (no key needed for self-hosted)
curl -s "http://localhost:8080/search?q=QUERY&format=json&engines=google,bing,duckduckgo" | python3 -m json.tool

Docker deployment:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 searxng/searxng

Rate Limits

Service	Limit	Notes
DuckDuckGo	~20-30 req/min	No official limit, be respectful
SearXNG	Unlimited (self-hosted)	Depends on upstream engines

Tips

Use specific queries with operators: site:github.com Python agent
For recent results, add year: "2026" AI agent framework
DuckDuckGo respects region param: DDGS().text(query, region="cn-zh")

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.

scripts/web_search.py 1.7 KB runs code

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.

4d ago First seen · 81 lines · 32 tokens per session scan C 7ee00a125ba3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository fuyuxiang/echo-agent (988 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 575 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Research agent agent-memory

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