websearch

websearch is a skill for Cursor from girijashankarj/cursor-handbook. It costs 32 tokens per session (387 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for searching the web for current documentation, recommended practices, or information about recent software-library changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when checking library versions, recent API changes, or the current recommended way to implement something.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying on outdated instructions when tools and APIs change over time.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when checking library versions, recent API changes, or the current recommended way to implement something.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/websearch
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 girijashankarj/cursor-handbook --skill websearch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

Made for: Cursor.

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 websearch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/websearch/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/websearch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/websearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/websearch/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 websearch

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/websearch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/websearch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" 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 387 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 $0.00032 $0.00387
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 5d ago against content hash 37839a78c0cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

websearch 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 5d 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.

.cursor/skills/documentation/websearch/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Trigger

When the user asks about a library version, recent API change, or "latest way to do X" and the answer may have changed.

Steps

  1. Query — Form a short search query (library name, version, and topic).
  2. Search — Use the web search tool to fetch 1–2 authoritative results (official docs, release notes).
  3. Synthesize — Summarize the finding and cite the source; apply to the user’s codebase if relevant.
  4. Caveat — Note if the result is version-specific or may vary by environment.

Rules

  • Prefer official docs and release notes over random blog posts.
  • Do not paste long copied text; summarize and link.

Prerequisites

  • Web search tool available
  • User question is version- or time-sensitive (e.g. "latest", "React 19", "Node 22")

Completion Checklist

  • Query used and source cited
  • Summary in 2–4 sentences
  • Version or date caveat if applicable

If Step Fails

  • No results: Broaden query (e.g. "React useEffect" instead of "React 19 useEffect")
  • Outdated result: Add "as of [date]" or "check latest docs"
  • Conflicting info: Prefer official docs; note disagreement

Example

Query: "Express 5 migration guide". Result: Express 5 release notes, breaking changes. Summary: async handlers, req.query changes. Caveat: Express 5.x as of 2025.

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 · 38 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 37839a78c0cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

websearch is a skill published in the GitHub repository girijashankarj/cursor-handbook (30 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 387 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 2026-09-03.

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