search-guide

search-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lin-A1/skills-agent. It costs 48 tokens per session (831 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A decision guide for choosing when an agent should use a search tool and when it should rely on its existing knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for deciding whether to search the internet during an agent task.
Why use it?
It gives consistent rules for handling current information and requests that need specific factual verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for deciding whether to search the internet during an agent task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lin-a1/skills-agent/search_guide
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 Lin-A1/skills-agent --skill search_guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lin-A1/skills-agent

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 search-guide

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lin-a1/skills-agent/search_guide.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lin-a1/skills-agent/search_guide)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lin-a1/skills-agent/search_guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lin-a1/skills-agent/search_guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 831 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 unknown 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 $0.00048 $0.00831
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 8d ago against content hash 71552f51e825, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-guide 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.

services/search_guide/SKILL.md · 121 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 121 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 71552f51e825

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search-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lin-A1/skills-agent (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 831 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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