What is google-search?

A guided workflow for finding and checking information through Google or similar web searches. It helps turn a broad question into focused searches and assess whether the results provide suitable evidence.

Finding official documents, tutorials, reports, tools, public information, programming answers, API documentation, and other reliable sources.

It reduces time spent sorting through irrelevant results and helps handle current facts, conflicting sources, and unclear search requests.

google-search — Skill for Claude Code by johnqtcg

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 johnqtcg/awesome-skills --skill google-search

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnqtcg/awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/google-search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/google-search)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/google-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/google-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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/google-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/johnqtcg/awesome-skills/google-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,508 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00107	$0.04508
Opus 5	$0.00053	$0.02254
Sonnet 5	$0.00021	$0.00902
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00451

Measured 12d ago against content hash 42b045d68e94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/eval_forward.py, scripts/lint_search_report.py, scripts/run_regression.sh, …), 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/google-search/SKILL.md · 340 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 340 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google Search

Quick Reference

If you need to…	Go to
Mode budgets: Quick (1–2 queries) / Standard (3–5) / Deep (5–8)	§6 Execution Mode Gate
Search for Go / Python / JS errors, API docs, or RFCs	Load `references/programmer-search-patterns.md`
Search Chinese-language sources (Baidu, Zhihu, WeChat)	Load `references/chinese-search-ecosystem.md`
Search on a fast-changing / conflict-prone topic	Load `references/high-conflict-topics.md`
Evaluate source quality or resolve conflicting sources	Load `references/source-evaluation.md`

Overview

Use this skill to turn vague search requests into a disciplined search-and-verification workflow. Default to doing the search work for the user first, then give them the reusable Google queries and refinement strategy if they want to continue manually.

Mandatory Gates

Gates execute in strict serial order. Any gate failure blocks all subsequent steps.

1) Scope         2) Ambiguity     3) Evidence      4) Language
   Classification → Resolution   → Requirements  → Detection
   │                │               │               │
   category+goal    unclear?        what proof?     EN/CN/Both?
   → classify       → STOP+ASK     → define chain  → set strategy
        │                │               │               │
        5) Source       6) Mode         7) Budget       8) Execution
           Path       →    Selection  →    Control   →    Integrity
           │               │               │               │
           official first? Quick/Std/Deep  max queries     actually searched?
           → rank sources  → auto-select   → enforce       → report honestly

1) Scope Classification Gate

Map the request into one primary category and one goal before writing any query.

Categories:

Information: news, facts, latest status, company or person updates
Knowledge: tutorials, best practices, explainers, research, official docs
Materials: PDFs, reports, templates, images, datasets, downloads
Tools: apps, services, plugins, utilities, alternatives
Public-information lookup: public records, bios, publications, profiles
Programmer search: error debugging, API docs, code examples, benchmarks, RFCs

Read the full file on GitHub · 340 lines

Files

What ships with it

33 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.

12d ago First seen · 340 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 42b045d68e94

Subscribe to this mod's changes

google-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnqtcg/awesome-skills (30 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 4,508 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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