What is smart-search-cli?

Instructions for using a local command-line tool to search the current web, fetch URLs, find official documentation, and collect source-backed evidence.

Search the web, fact-check claims, fetch pages, map sites, look up official or API documentation, and perform deeper research with reproducible sources.

It provides a repeatable way to research changing information and record where facts came from, while reporting which search providers were available.

smart-search-cli — Skill for Codex by konbakuyomu/smartsearch

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 konbakuyomu/smartsearch --skill smart-search-cli

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/konbakuyomu/smartsearch

Made for: 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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,744 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Excessive Agency · line 22
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.

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	$0.00053	$0.01744
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00698
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00011	$0.00349
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00174

Measured 7d ago against content hash e3ae42095286, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smart-search-cli 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 7d 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.

skills/smart-search-cli/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Smart Search CLI

Use the local smart-search command as the default execution layer for web research. This entrypoint keeps only routing, boundaries, and reference selection; load the focused reference file when command details or provider contracts matter.

What This Skill Is

smart-search-cli is an instruction bundle for an AI tool. It explains when to call the local smart-search executable, which command fits the user's intent, how to preserve source evidence, and how to interpret provider status and fallback fields.

The Skill does not provide search access by itself; the configured smart-search CLI and its providers do the work.
The Skill is not an MCP server, does not store provider API keys, and does not create Trellis, hooks, agents, or commands.
smart-search setup --install-skills ... connects selected Agents. Installed Skills use a short bootstrap: run smart-search agent-guide for this CLI's current instructions and smart-search agent-guide references/<name>.md for a referenced document.
The App's Update Skills page reads the selected CLI's catalog. Explicit sync backs up changed files; Remove Skills backs up and disconnects selected targets. Automatic maintenance belongs to the CLI, works with the App closed, and preserves personal edits. Each connected target retains its CLI installation and configuration profile.
After upgrading the CLI, normal use checks its managed Skills; skills status remains read-only and skills update provides an explicit refresh. Reopen the Agent session after changes (Gemini: /skills reload).
Skill updates do not change provider configuration or API keys. Missing optional keys remain skipped rather than being treated as successful live checks.

Default Workflow

Run smart-search doctor --format json when configuration or availability is uncertain.
If doctor reports missing configuration, use smart-search setup or smart-search config set KEY VALUE when the user provides keys. Do not ask users to edit global environment variables by default.
If OpenAI-compatible search hangs or times out after doctor succeeds, run smart-search diagnose openai-compatible --format markdown and use its summary.
Keep OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_API_MODE=chat-completions unless a named relay has passed the official Responses subset probes; set responses only for that relay and keep the diagnostic evidence.
If doctor returns ok: true, use only smart-search CLI subcommands for web research. Do not call Codex native web search in the same task.
Use smart-search skills status --targets codex --format json when the installed global skill may be stale; use smart-search skills update --targets codex --format json to refresh it without rerunning setup.
Use smart-search smoke --mock --format json after CLI/provider architecture changes. Use --live only when real keys are available and the user expects live checks.
Treat TAVILY_ENABLED=false as an intentional no-network boundary: do not work around it with direct Tavily or map calls. Check doctor and live smoke for disabled/skipped Tavily state; Firecrawl remains independently configured.
If a result reports a degraded provider in provider_notices, or a provider attempt is skipped, run smart-search providers status --format json. The channel is on a persisted failure cooldown; fix the credential or run smart-search providers reset PROVIDER instead of retrying the same failing provider.
Preserve command lines and source URLs in your answer. Prefer citing fetched pages; treat model citations and unread search sources as discovery candidates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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.

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Subscribe to this mod's changes

smart-search-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository konbakuyomu/smartsearch (914 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,744 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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