Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to lowtidebuild/ebook-writer. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lowtidebuild/ebook-writer/main/.claude/skills/web-research/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lowtidebuild/ebook-writerWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lowtidebuild/ebook-writer/web-research)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lowtidebuild/ebook-writer/web-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lowtidebuild/ebook-writer/web-research/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lowtidebuild/ebook-writer/web-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lowtidebuild/ebook-writer/web-research.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00000 | $0.00346 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00138 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00069 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00035 |
Grade A, and why
web-research 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 2mo 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.
What it actually says
Web Research Skill
Purpose
Provides structured web search and information collection strategies for comprehensive topic research.
Capabilities
- Multi-query web search with varied phrasing
- Source credibility assessment
- Finding deduplication across queries
- Bilingual search (Korean + English)
Search Strategy
Query Formulation
For each research question, generate 2-3 search queries:
- Exact match: Use the question as-is
- Technical variant: Rephrase with specific technical terminology
- Korean variant: Translate the question to Korean for Korean-language sources
Source Credibility Hierarchy
- Official documentation — Primary source (highest credibility)
- Peer-reviewed / established publications — Academic and industry publications
- Expert blog posts — Technical blog posts from recognized domain experts
- Community resources — Stack Overflow, GitHub discussions, forums
- News articles — Recent developments and announcements
- Social media — Lowest credibility, use only for trending topics
Deduplication
When multiple sources report the same finding:
- Keep the most authoritative source
- Note corroboration: "Confirmed by N sources"
- Remove redundant entries
When to Use
- Researcher Agent, Step 1 of the pipeline
- When decomposing topic into research questions and collecting findings
Failure Handling
- If WebSearch returns no results: rephrase the query and retry (max 2 retries)
- If WebFetch fails on a URL: skip that source, note as "inaccessible"
- If an entire topic area yields no results: flag in the Coverage Assessment section
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bb68ee66a32b
web-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository lowtidebuild/ebook-writer (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 346 tokens. 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.
web-research compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| web-researchlowtidebuild/ebook-writer | Skill | 6 | 4mo ago | Apache-2.0 | A | 0 | Claude Code |
| imagegenopenai/codex | Skill | 133k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 113 | Codex |
| playwright-climicrosoft/playwright | Skill | 99k | yesterday | Apache-2.0 | A | 19 | Claude Code |
| local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners | Skill | 79k | 4d ago | MIT | A | 200 | Claude Code, Codex |
| systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers | Skill | 313k | 3d ago | MIT | A | 21 | Claude Code |
| next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js | Skill | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 95 | Claude Code |
| next-partial-prefetching-adoptionvercel/next.js | Skill | 143k | yesterday | MIT | A | 103 | Claude Code |