web_search

web_search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 15 tokens per session (313 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A web-search interface that builds queries, returns ranked results, and supports news and code searches. It can apply filters and returns titles, links, snippets, and scores.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for general information, recent news, or programming examples, with optional filters and language-focused code searches.
Why use it?
It gives agents a consistent way to search the web and prioritize results instead of handling every search manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to search for general information, recent news, or programming examples, with optional filters and language-focused code searches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/web_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 jxoesneon/Ciel --skill web_search
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_search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/web_search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/web_search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/web_search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/web_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 web_search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/web_search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jxoesneon/ciel/web_search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 313 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 $0.00015 $0.00313
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 8d ago against content hash 27350bf1178f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web_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.

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.

ciel.skill/seed_skills/web_search/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Query a search engine and rank results.

Operations

  • search.query(terms, filters) — returns ranked list of {title, url, snippet, score}.
  • search.news(terms, since) — news filter.
  • search.code(terms, lang?) — code-focused (GitHub, Sourcegraph).

I/O Contract

io_contract:
  input: { terms: string, "filters?": map, "top_k?": int }
  output: { results: [ { title, url, snippet, score } ] }
  idempotent: true
  side_effects: [network]

Providers

Host-native when possible (Claude web search, Gemini grounded). Falls back to configured search.provider with API key from secrets_manager.

Safety

  • Queries logged.
  • URL fetches defer to web_fetch/SKILL.md.
  • Safe-search defaults on.
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 · 42 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 27350bf1178f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web_search is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 313 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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