searxng-search

searxng-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from huangyrcn/web-kit. It costs 147 tokens per session (1,841 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search tool that combines results from more than 20 search services, including general, academic, code, news, and community sources. It returns result titles, links, and short descriptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find background information, academic papers and citations, repositories and packages, recent news, or discussions across the web.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to search each service separately when researching a topic. It helps gather starting points for facts, papers, software, APIs, news, and community discussions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the web-kit plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find background information, academic papers and citations, repositories and packages, recent news, or discussions across the web.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/searxng-search
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 huangyrcn/web-kit --skill searxng-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huangyrcn/web-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install web-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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 searxng-search

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/searxng-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/searxng-search/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 searxng-search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/searxng-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/searxng-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,841 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.
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 $0.00147 $0.01841
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00184

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9bd3e07e23c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

searxng-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 10d 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.

skills/searxng-search/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A web search skill that queries a SearxNG backend. It defaults to Google for clear, broad web results. Part of a research workflow: find → read → synthesize. Pair with browser-fetch to read the pages this skill finds.

Input

The primary input is a natural language query. Optional flags adjust scope:

Flag Meaning Example
query What to search for (required) "knowledge graph multi-hop reasoning"
-n Limit number of results -n 5
-e Use one specific engine instead of Google -e google_scholar
-l Language preference -l zh-CN
-c Category -c news
-t Request timeout in seconds -t 60
-u Output URLs only -u
-j Output JSON (structured, for scripting) -j

How to invoke

The script is bundled with this skill. Always invoke it via the script path so it works regardless of whether searxng-search is on the user's PATH:

uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/searxng-search "query"
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/searxng-search "query" -n 5
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/searxng-search "query" -e google_scholar
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/searxng-search "query" -c news -l zh-CN

Do not invoke the script directly (e.g. ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/searxng-search ...) — the file may not have execute permission after deployment. Always use uv run --script.

The only external dependency is uv (auto-installs inline Python deps on first run) and a running SearxNG backend.

Environment

SEARXNG_URL — SearxNG endpoint (default: http://localhost:8082)

WEB_KIT_API_KEY — required; sent as the X-API-Key header to authenticate to the gateway.

Default behavior

If you do not specify any flags:

  • Engine: Google
  • Results: top 10
  • Output: concise human-readable list with title, URL, snippet, and engine tag
  • Errors: JSON to stdout with an error_type field (exit code 1)

Available engines

Engines are grouped by what they index. Choose at most one non-default engine per search. To compare sources, run separate searches.

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 178 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 9bd3e07e23c7

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searxng-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository huangyrcn/web-kit (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 1,841 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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