web_fetch

web_fetch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 17 tokens per session (307 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for fetching web pages and API responses from URLs, returning them as raw content, parsed JSON, or readable Markdown.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect data from websites and APIs, follow paginated results, and keep fetches available for auditing.
Why use it?
It removes the need to write separate handling for HTML extraction, JSON parsing, pagination, retries, redirects, and fetch records.

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/jxoesneon/ciel/web_fetch
Any agent
npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill web_fetch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

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.

agentmods badge for web_fetch

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 307 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00017 $0.00307
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 4d ago against content hash ae0d95605031, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web_fetch 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 4d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

triggers: [fetch, download, curl, get url, visit]
ciel.skill/seed_skills/web_fetch/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

web_fetch

Fetch a URL.

Operations

  • fetch.get(url, headers?) — returns body + metadata + fetch_hash.
  • fetch.json(url) — parsed JSON.
  • fetch.md(url) — HTML→markdown extraction.
  • fetch.paginate(url, pattern) — follow next links.

I/O Contract

io_contract:
  input: { url, "headers?", "timeout_s?" }
  output: { status, body, headers, fetch_hash, final_url }
  idempotent: true
  side_effects: [network]

Safety

  • Robots.txt respected.
  • Redirects capped at 10.
  • Body size capped by acquisition.config.total_wall_budget_s proxy (configurable).
  • All fetches logged with URL hashed if redact_urls: true.
  • Bodies stored in MemPalace by fetch_hash for audit.
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. 4d ago First seen · 42 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A ae0d95605031

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web_fetch is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 307 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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