knowledge-search

knowledge-search is a skill for Claude Code from NickGuAI/Herd. It costs 16 tokens per session (116 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A method for searching local knowledge stores before researching or answering from memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when looking for prior notes, research, or stored answers related to a question.
Why use it?
It helps avoid repeating existing research and reduces the chance of overlooking information already available locally.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when looking for prior notes, research, or stored answers related to a question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nickguai/herd/knowledge-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 NickGuAI/Herd --skill knowledge-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickGuAI/Herd

Made for: Claude Code.

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 knowledge-search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nickguai/herd/knowledge-search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nickguai/herd/knowledge-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nickguai/herd/knowledge-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nickguai/herd/knowledge-search/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for knowledge-search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nickguai/herd/knowledge-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nickguai/herd/knowledge-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 116 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 $0.00016 $0.00116
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00046
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00012

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9f8506e0d067, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-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 1mo 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.

agent-skills/herd-starter/knowledge-search/SKILL.md · 20 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 9f8506e0d067

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knowledge-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository NickGuAI/Herd (17 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 116 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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