local-rag-search

local-rag-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nkapila6/mcp-local-rag. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,482 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search guide for finding information on the web through a local search service that ranks results by how closely they match the query.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for current information, technical documentation, scientific material, or wider background across multiple sources.
Why use it?
It helps choose between general, technical, and broad multi-source searches while keeping the search workflow consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search for current information, technical documentation, scientific material, or wider background across multiple sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nkapila6/mcp-local-rag/local-rag-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 nkapila6/mcp-local-rag --skill local-rag-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nkapila6/mcp-local-rag

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,482 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00080 $0.01482
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00148

Measured 13d ago against content hash c5ce423a1c1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-rag-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 13d 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.

skills/local-rag-search/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local RAG Search Skill

This skill enables you to effectively use the mcp-local-rag MCP server for intelligent web searches with semantic ranking. The server performs RAG-like similarity scoring to prioritize the most relevant results without requiring any external APIs.

Available Tools

1. rag_search_ddgs - DuckDuckGo Search

Use this for privacy-focused, general web searches.

When to use:

  • User prefers privacy-focused searches
  • General information lookup
  • Default choice for most queries

Parameters:

  • query: Natural language search query
  • num_results: Initial results to fetch (default: 10)
  • top_k: Most relevant results to return (default: 5)
  • include_urls: Include source URLs (default: true)

2. rag_search_google - Google Search

Use this for comprehensive, technical, or detailed searches.

When to use:

  • Technical or scientific queries
  • Need comprehensive coverage
  • Searching for specific documentation

3. deep_research - Multi-Engine Deep Research

Use this for comprehensive research across multiple search engines.

When to use:

  • Researching complex topics requiring broad coverage
  • Need diverse perspectives from multiple sources
  • Gathering comprehensive information on a subject

Available backends:

  • duckduckgo: Privacy-focused general search
  • google: Comprehensive technical results
  • bing: Microsoft's search engine
  • brave: Privacy-first search
  • wikipedia: Encyclopedia/factual content
  • yahoo, yandex, mojeek, grokipedia: Alternative engines

Default: ["duckduckgo", "google"]

4. deep_research_google - Google-Only Deep Research

Shortcut for deep research using only Google.

5. deep_research_ddgs - DuckDuckGo-Only Deep Research

Shortcut for deep research using only DuckDuckGo.

Best Practices

Query Formulation

  1. Use natural language: Write queries as questions or descriptive phrases
    • Good: "latest developments in quantum computing"
    • Good: "how to implement binary search in Python"
    • Avoid: Single keywords like "quantum" or "Python"

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 13d ago First seen · 189 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A c5ce423a1c1a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-rag-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository nkapila6/mcp-local-rag (134 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,482 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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