web-research

A web-search helper that asks online-search models for answers grounded in current web results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research questions, check claims, find sources, and compare web-based answers. It requires a Pollinations API key and curl.
Why use it?
It removes the need to search manually and can compare answers from more than one search model.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 398 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 $0.00039 $0.00398
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 915e33075d47, 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/web-research.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.

- `curl`
.claude/skills/web-research/SKILL.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

Web Research

Available Models

  • gemini-search — Google Gemini with web search grounding (default)
  • perplexity-fast — Perplexity AI, faster (default)
  • perplexity — Perplexity AI
  • nomnom — NomNom search model

By default, queries both gemini-search and perplexity-fast in parallel.

Requirements

  • curl

Authentication

Set an API key in an environment variable (preferred):

export POLLINATIONS_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY"

Or create a local .env file at .claude/skills/web-research/.env:

POLLINATIONS_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY"

If POLLINATIONS_API_KEY is not set, the script will prompt for a key (input hidden).

Quick usage

.claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh "What is pollinations.ai?" 

Choose a model:

.claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh --model perplexity-fast "Fact-check this claim with sources"

Compare multiple models:

.claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh --models gemini-search,perplexity-fast,nomnom "Compare answers"

Run multi-model in parallel:

.claude/skills/web-research/scripts/web-research.sh --models gemini-search,perplexity-fast --parallel "Compare answers"

Notes

  • Uses https://gen.pollinations.ai/v1/chat/completions
  • Sends Authorization: Bearer <key>
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. 2d ago First seen · 65 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 915e33075d47

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository pollinations/pollinations (5,013 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 398 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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