web-search

web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenMinis/MinisSkills. It costs 94 tokens per session (889 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based skill for searching the web through several search engines, including Google, Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and others. It chooses a search route based on the request and can try another engine when one fails.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for real-time web searches, Chinese-language searches, structured AI answers, or searches aimed at a specific engine.
Why use it?
It provides current search results instead of relying only on the model's stored knowledge. Fallbacks help when an engine is blocked, logged out, or returns poor results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for real-time web searches, Chinese-language searches, structured AI answers, or searches aimed at a specific engine.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openminis/minisskills/web-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 OpenMinis/MinisSkills --skill web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenMinis/MinisSkills

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-search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openminis/minisskills/web-search.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/openminis/minisskills/web-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/openminis/minisskills/web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/openminis/minisskills/web-search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 889 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 $0.00094 $0.00889
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00445
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00089

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5876d61f8b5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/browser_search.py), 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.

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.

web-search/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use browser automation to search the web through multiple engines, then fall back automatically when one engine is blocked, logged out, or returns poor results.

When to use

Activate this skill when the user wants:

  • real-time web search
  • search engine results instead of model memory
  • Chinese web search or structured AI answers
  • engine-specific search (Google / Bing / Brave / Perplexity / Metaso AI)
  • fallback behavior across multiple search engines

Search engines

Engine URL pattern Strength Notes
Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q={query} Highest answer quality Needs login once
Metaso AI https://metaso.cn/ Strong Chinese results Home page interaction may be needed
Google https://www.google.com/search?q={query} Best general web coverage Stable fallback
Bing https://www.bing.com/search?q={query} Good Chinese + AI summary Stable fallback
Brave https://search.brave.com/search?q={query} Privacy-friendly Good backup
DuckDuckGo https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q={query} Lightweight privacy search May show anomaly pages
Baidu https://www.baidu.com/s?wd={query} Strong Chinese index Use for Chinese web results
Sogou https://www.sogou.com/web?query={query} Chinese / WeChat-heavy results Secondary Chinese backup
Tavily API-based Agent-oriented Requires API key

Intent-based priority chains

Choose the search chain by user intent.

Deep research / comparison / trend analysis

Perplexity -> Metaso AI -> Bing -> Google -> Brave

Chinese search / Chinese summary / local context

Metaso AI -> Perplexity -> Baidu -> Bing -> Google

General web search / official site / original page lookup

Google -> Bing -> Brave -> DuckDuckGo

Privacy-first search

Brave -> DuckDuckGo -> Bing

Fallback rules

Immediately switch to the next engine when any of these happens:

  • login expired
  • captcha / verification / blocked / robot / abnormal traffic
  • empty result page
  • redirected back to the home page
  • page structure is broken and no useful text can be extracted
  • only input box is visible with no actual results

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 8d ago First seen · 93 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 5876d61f8b5a

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web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenMinis/MinisSkills (400 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 889 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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