ddgs-search

ddgs-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from InternLM/WildClawBench. It costs 71 tokens per session (838 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A free command-line search tool that queries several web search engines and arXiv, a public repository for research papers. It returns search results as JSON and does not require API keys.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find webpages, Wikipedia entries, research papers, authors, abstracts, categories, and publication dates. You can choose among supported search engines from the command line.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents one search interface for general web research and academic paper discovery. It can replace another search tool when compatible JSON output is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit It helps find webpages, Wikipedia entries, research papers, authors, abstracts, categories, and publication dates. You can choose among supported search engines from the command line.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/internlm/wildclawbench/ddgs-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 InternLM/WildClawBench --skill ddgs-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/InternLM/WildClawBench

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 838 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 $0.00071 $0.00838
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00084

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3492014df6e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ddgs-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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/arxiv_search.py, scripts/install.py, scripts/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.

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/4/ddgs-search/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Why This Skill?

🆓 Completely free — no API keys, no subscriptions, no rate limits, no billing surprises.

🔍 8 search engines in one — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yandex, Yahoo, Wikipedia, and Mojeek. Switch engines with a single flag. Most search skills only support one.

🎓 Built-in arXiv research search — search academic papers directly via arXiv's free API. Returns authors, categories, abstracts, and publication dates. Perfect for researchers, students, and AI/ML practitioners.

🔌 Drop-in replacement — outputs web-search-plus compatible JSON, so it works with any skill or tool that expects that format. Zero config migration.

Lightweight — single pip package, no browser automation, no headless Chrome. Searches complete in 1-3 seconds.

Install

python3 scripts/install.py

Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Installs the ddgs package, verifies CLI access, and runs a quick search test.

Manual install

pip install ddgs

CLI wrapper (recommended)

The ddgs-search wrapper outputs clean JSON to stdout with no interactive prompts or abort issues:

# Google (default)
ddgs-search "your query" 5 google

# Other engines
ddgs-search "your query" 3 duckduckgo
ddgs-search "your query" 5 brave
ddgs-search "your query" 10 yandex

Python script (web-search-plus compatible JSON)

# Google (default)
python3 scripts/search.py -q "your query" -m 5

# Other engines
python3 scripts/search.py -q "your query" -b duckduckgo
python3 scripts/search.py -q "your query" -b brave
python3 scripts/search.py -q "your query" -b yandex
python3 scripts/search.py -q "your query" -b yahoo
python3 scripts/search.py -q "your query" -b wikipedia

Output (web-search-plus compatible JSON):

{
  "provider": "ddgs",
  "results": [
    {"title": "...", "url": "...", "snippet": "...", "published_date": "..."}
  ]
}
# Search by topic
python3 scripts/arxiv_search.py -q "3D gaussian splatting" -m 10

# Field-specific search (title, abstract, category)
python3 scripts/arxiv_search.py -q "ti:transformer AND cat:cs.CV" -m 5

# Sort by relevance instead of date
python3 scripts/arxiv_search.py -q "reinforcement learning" --sort-by relevance

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 8d ago First seen · 103 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 3492014df6e7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ddgs-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository InternLM/WildClawBench (516 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 838 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.