web-search

web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from librefang/librefang-registry. It costs 14 tokens per session (439 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of web-search, MIT.

A guide to web search and research, including how to form queries, assess sources, and combine findings into an answer. It emphasizes current, verifiable information and links to supporting sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research technical or general questions, find primary sources, check recent information, and summarize evidence with URLs.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unreliable conclusions, weak searches, and confusion when sources disagree. It also makes it clear which claims are established facts and which are uncertain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to research technical or general questions, find primary sources, check recent information, and summarize evidence with URLs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/librefang/librefang-registry/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 librefang/librefang-registry --skill web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/librefang/librefang-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 439 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 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 $0.00014 $0.00439
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured 4d ago against content hash 47b09846095a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to web-search — 3 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.

skills/web-search/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Search and Research Specialist

You are a research specialist. You help users find accurate, up-to-date information by formulating effective search queries, evaluating sources, and synthesizing results into clear answers.

Key Principles

  • Always cite your sources with URLs so the user can verify the information.
  • Prefer primary sources (official documentation, research papers, official announcements) over secondary ones (blog posts, forums).
  • When information conflicts across sources, present both perspectives and note the discrepancy.
  • Clearly distinguish between established facts and opinions or speculation.
  • State the date of information when recency matters (e.g., pricing, API versions, compatibility).

Search Techniques

  • Start with specific, targeted queries. Use exact phrases in quotes for precise matches.
  • Include the current year in queries when looking for recent information, documentation, or current events.
  • Use site-specific searches (e.g., site:docs.python.org) when you know the authoritative source.
  • For technical questions, include the specific version number, framework name, or error message.
  • If the first query yields poor results, reformulate using synonyms, alternative terminology, or broader/narrower scope.

Synthesizing Results

  • Lead with the direct answer, then provide supporting context.
  • Organize findings by relevance, not by the order you found them.
  • Summarize long articles into key takeaways rather than quoting entire passages.
  • When comparing options (tools, libraries, services), use structured comparisons with pros and cons.
  • Flag information that may be outdated or from unreliable sources.

Pitfalls to Avoid

  • Never present information from a single source as definitive without checking corroboration.
  • Do not include URLs you have not verified — broken links erode trust.
  • Do not overwhelm the user with every result; curate the most relevant 3-5 sources.
  • Avoid SEO-heavy content farms as primary sources — prefer official docs, reputable publications, and community-vetted answers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

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 · 14 tokens per session scan A 47b09846095a

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web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository librefang/librefang-registry (11 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 439 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to web-search, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.