web-search

web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OtterMind/youclaw. It costs 22 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A web-search guide for finding current information, news, and facts online. It uses a MiniMax web-search tool and asks for source links in the results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for recent events, weather, prices, software documentation, or other changing facts, then compare sources and distinguish confirmed information from speculation.
Why use it?
It helps when built-in knowledge may be out of date or when an answer needs checked information and sources.

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/ottermind/youclaw/web-search
Any agent
npx skills add OtterMind/youclaw --skill web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OtterMind/youclaw

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/ottermind/youclaw/web-search.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ottermind/youclaw/web-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ottermind/youclaw/web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ottermind/youclaw/web-search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. 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 $0.00022 $0.00428
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00043

Measured 4d ago against content hash acdf34b66ec5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

web-search scanned grade C with 2 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 4d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl: "curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh"

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl: "curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh"
skills/web-search/SKILL.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Search the internet for real-time information using the web_search tool provided by MiniMax MCP Server.

When to Use

Use web_search when the user needs:

  • Latest news, events, or weather
  • Real-time data (stock prices, exchange rates, sports scores, etc.)
  • Facts that may be outdated in your training data
  • Up-to-date information about specific products or services
  • Latest versions of technical documentation

Search Strategy

  1. Craft effective keywords: Keep them short and precise, remove filler words. Prefer English for technical queries
  2. Add time constraints: Include the year or "latest" in keywords when seeking current information
  3. Multi-step search: Start with broad overview keywords, then refine based on results
  4. Cross-verify: Confirm important facts from at least two sources

Output Guidelines

  • Cite sources (URLs) in your response
  • Distinguish between facts and speculation
  • If search results are insufficient to answer the question, state so honestly
  • Do not copy-paste large blocks of search results; distill the key information

Example

User: "What is the latest version of Bun?"

Search strategy:

  1. web_search("Bun latest release 2026")
  2. If more details are needed, use WebFetch to retrieve the release notes page

Response: Include version number, release date, key changes, and source links.

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. 4d ago First seen · 54 lines · 22 tokens per session scan C acdf34b66ec5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository OtterMind/youclaw (724 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 428 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.