searxng-search

searxng-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from johnson7788/MultiUserClaw. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,966 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of searxng-search, MIT.

A search tool that combines results from many search engines through SearXNG, a privacy-focused search service that can run on your own server.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search the web from command-line workflows using either a self-hosted SearXNG server or a public instance.
Why use it?
It provides a web-search fallback when another search service is unavailable and can avoid requiring a paid search API key.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps search the web from command-line workflows using either a self-hosted SearXNG server or a public instance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/johnson7788/multiuserclaw/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 johnson7788/MultiUserClaw --skill searxng-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/johnson7788/MultiUserClaw

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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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,966 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.01966
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00983
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00197

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3eecf1185abf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

searxng-search scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/searxng.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s --max-time 5 "${SEARXNG_URL}/search?q=test&format=json" | head -c 200
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to searxng-search — 21 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hermes-agent/optional-skills/research/searxng-search/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Free meta-search using SearXNG — a privacy-respecting, self-hosted search aggregator that queries 70+ search engines simultaneously.

No API key required when using a public instance. Can also be self-hosted for full control. Automatically appears as a fallback when the main web search toolset (FIRECRAWL_API_KEY) is not configured.

Configuration

SearXNG requires a SEARXNG_URL environment variable pointing to your SearXNG instance:

# Public instances (no setup required)
SEARXNG_URL=https://searxng.example.com

# Self-hosted SearXNG
SEARXNG_URL=http://localhost:8888

If no instance is configured, this skill is unavailable and the agent falls back to other search options.

Detection Flow

Check what is actually available before choosing an approach:

# Check if SEARXNG_URL is set and the instance is reachable
curl -s --max-time 5 "${SEARXNG_URL}/search?q=test&format=json" | head -c 200

Decision tree:

  1. If SEARXNG_URL is set and the instance responds, use SearXNG
  2. If SEARXNG_URL is unset or unreachable, fall back to other available search tools
  3. If the user wants SearXNG specifically, help them set up an instance or find a public one

Method 1: CLI via curl (Preferred)

Use curl via terminal to call the SearXNG JSON API. This avoids assuming any particular Python package is installed.

# Text search (JSON output)
curl -s --max-time 10 \
  "${SEARXNG_URL}/search?q=python+async+programming&format=json&engines=google,bing&limit=10"

# With Safesearch off
curl -s --max-time 10 \
  "${SEARXNG_URL}/search?q=example&format=json&safesearch=0"

# Specific categories (general, news, science, etc.)
curl -s --max-time 10 \
  "${SEARXNG_URL}/search?q=AI+news&format=json&categories=news"

Common CLI Flags

Flag Description Example
q Query string (URL-encoded) q=python+async
format Output format: json, csv, rss format=json
engines Comma-separated engine names engines=google,bing,ddg
limit Max results per engine (default 10) limit=5
categories Filter by category categories=news,science
safesearch 0=none, 1=moderate, 2=strict safesearch=0
time_range Filter: day, week, month, year time_range=week

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 6d ago First seen · 213 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 3eecf1185abf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

searxng-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository johnson7788/MultiUserClaw (318 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,966 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 92% identical to searxng-search, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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