search

A search instruction for finding documents and other information in Glean, an enterprise company-knowledge search system. It emphasizes checking whether results are relevant, current, and authoritative.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search company knowledge for documents, answers, locations, or other internal information and present the most relevant vetted results.
Why use it?
It helps avoid returning results that only match the search words or come from outdated sources. It also gives readers enough context to judge each result.

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/gleanwork/claude-plugins/search
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/claude-plugins --skill search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 735 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 $0.00061 $0.00735
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 39330b524321, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • search — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
plugins/glean/skills/search/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Perform a structured search across Glean enterprise knowledge and return vetted, quality-assessed results.

Core Principles

  • Relevance over completeness: Show the best results, not all results
  • Be skeptical: Not every keyword match is relevant
  • Context matters: Include enough info to assess relevance

Search Process

1. Identify the Query

Determine the search topic from the user's request or current conversation context. If no query is apparent, ask the user what they want to search for before proceeding.

2. Execute Search

Use the Glean search tool with the user's query. Return the most relevant results.

3. Assess Results

For each result, evaluate:

Relevance:

  • ✅ RELEVANT: Actually about the query topic
  • ❌ SKIP: Keyword coincidence, different context

Currency:

  • ✅ CURRENT: Recent update
  • ⚠️ OLD: May be outdated

Only show results that pass the relevance check. If old, note it.

4. Present Vetted Results

For each included result:

  • Title (as a clickable link if URL available)
  • Source (app/datasource)
  • Last updated (with freshness indicator: ✅ <6mo, ⚠️ 6-12mo, ❌ >12mo)
  • Snippet (relevant excerpt)
  • Relevance note (why this matches)

5. Note Quality

After results, include:

  • How many results were found vs. shown
  • Any concerns about result quality
  • Suggestions if results seem limited

6. Offer Follow-up Actions

After showing results, offer these follow-up actions:

  • Read a document in full
  • Refine the search with filters (by date, owner, app/source, or different keywords)
  • Search a related topic

Example Output

## Search Results: [query]

Found [X] results, showing top [Y] most relevant:

### 1. [Title] ✅
**Source**: Confluence | **Updated**: 2 weeks ago ✅
> [Relevant snippet...]

**Why relevant**: [Brief note on why this matches]

### 2. [Title] ⚠️
**Source**: Slack | **Updated**: 8 months ago ⚠️
> [Relevant snippet...]

**Why relevant**: [Note] | **Caveat**: May be outdated

---

**Quality note**: [X] results filtered out (keyword matches in different context)

**If these don't help**: Try [alternative search suggestion]

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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 · 106 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 39330b524321

Subscribe to this mod's changes

search is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/claude-plugins (25 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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