web-research

web-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge. It costs 110 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for researching information online with several search and page-reading tools. Web research means finding current information and checking the original pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them for exploratory or time-sensitive searches, reading web pages, and obtaining video transcripts.
Why use it?
They help choose a suitable search method and provide fallbacks when a search or page-reading tool fails.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mrobinson2/azureagentforge/web-research
Any agent
npx skills add mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge --skill web-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge

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-research

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mrobinson2/azureagentforge/web-research.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrobinson2/azureagentforge/web-research)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrobinson2/azureagentforge/web-research"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mrobinson2/azureagentforge/web-research.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00110 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00084

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5d95af87f866, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-research scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/research-doctor.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| **Read a page** — get the actual content of a URL | `web-read` | raw `curl` + strip | `web-read` returns clean Markdown; `curl` returns raw HTML. |
apps/hermes/overrides/skills/playbooks/web-research/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web research: pick the right backend, with fallbacks

The platform exposes several research CLIs on $PATH. Use the one that fits the job; if it fails or returns empty, fall back down the chain rather than giving up (or fabricating).

Routing table

Need Preferred Fallback Notes
Search — conceptual / "things like X" / exploratory exa-search brave-searchddgs Exa is semantic; finds relevant pages without exact words.
Search — fresh / news / exact term brave-search exa-searchddgs Brave accepts cloud IPs (DuckDuckGo blocks them).
Read a page — get the actual content of a URL web-read raw curl + strip web-read returns clean Markdown; curl returns raw HTML.
Video — transcript of a YouTube/Vimeo/etc. link video-transcript (Whisper, auto) yt-dlp captions; Whisper fallback runs automatically if GROQ_API_KEY is set.

All search tools emit the same JSON shape ([{title, href, body}]), so you can swap one for another without changing how you parse the result. When a question has both an exploratory and a freshness angle, run both search backends and merge — they surface different pages.

Fallback rule

If your preferred tool returns an empty result or a non-zero exit, try the fallback before concluding "nothing found". An empty result from one backend is not evidence that the information doesn't exist — it's often that backend being blocked, rate-limited, or unconfigured. Only after the preferred tool and its fallback come up empty should you treat the query as genuinely unanswerable.

Health check — research-doctor

Before a research-heavy task (or when a tool behaves oddly), check which backends are actually up:

research-doctor          # human-readable: OK / SKIP / DOWN per backend
research-doctor --json   # [{name, ok, status, detail}] for scripting
  • OK — the backend responded.
  • SKIP — not configured here (e.g. no API key); not an error, just unavailable.
  • DOWN — configured but failing; route around it and, if persistent, flag it to Infrastructure. research-doctor exits non-zero when any backend is DOWN.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 67 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 5d95af87f866

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrobinson2/AzureAgentForge (21 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.