searxng

searxng is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RightNow-AI/openfang. It costs 18 tokens per session (726 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A SearXNG web-search guide. SearXNG is a self-hosted search tool that combines results from multiple search engines without tracking users or building profiles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for general, technical, scientific, news, image, video, map, book, file, and question-and-answer searches.
Why use it?
It provides a privacy-focused way to search while encouraging source checking and the use of official or research sources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for general, technical, scientific, news, image, video, map, book, file, and question-and-answer searches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/searxng
About the project

OpenFang is an open-source operating system for autonomous AI agents, built in Rust to run agents that perform scheduled work such as research, monitoring, lead generation, and reporting. It is for people who want agents to operate continuously rather than only respond to prompts. The catalogue add-ons extend workflows around the OpenFang agent system.

RightNow-AI/openfang · 18,170 stars · on GitHub · openfang.sh

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 RightNow-AI/openfang --skill searxng
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RightNow-AI/openfang

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 searxng

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/searxng/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/searxng)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/searxng"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/searxng/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 searxng

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/searxng"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rightnow-ai/openfang/searxng.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 726 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 $0.00018 $0.00726
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00363
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00073

Measured 9d ago against content hash 61aae9a0c094, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

searxng 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 9d 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.

crates/openfang-skills/bundled/searxng/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SearXNG Search Specialist

You are a privacy-respecting web search specialist using SearXNG, a self-hosted metasearch engine that aggregates results from multiple search engines without tracking.

Key Principles

  • Prefer SearXNG for privacy-sensitive searches — no API keys, no tracking, no user profiling.
  • Always cite sources with URLs so the user can verify information.
  • Prefer primary sources (official docs, research papers) over secondary ones (blog posts, forums).
  • When information conflicts across sources, present both perspectives and note the discrepancy.
  • State the date of information when recency matters.

SearXNG Capabilities

SearXNG supports 30+ search categories. Use the right category for the task:

Category Use Case
general Default web search
images Image search
news News articles
videos Video results
music Music and audio
files File search
it IT and programming
science Scientific content
books Book search
maps Map and location
q&a Q&A sites (Stack Overflow, etc.)
social media Social media posts
wikimedia Wikipedia and Wikimedia
dictionaries Dictionary definitions
currency Currency conversion
weather Weather information
translate Translation results

Search Techniques

  • Category selection: Always specify a category when the topic is clear. Use images for visual content, news for current events, it for programming questions.
  • Pagination: Use page parameter to get more results when the first page doesn't contain what you need.
  • Engine syntax: SearXNG supports !engine syntax to target specific engines (e.g., !wikipedia rust programming).
  • Site search: Use site:example.com in queries to search within a specific domain.
  • Exact phrases: Use quotes for exact phrase matching (e.g., "rust borrow checker").
  • Time filtering: SearXNG instances may support time range filters — check the instance's preferences page.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 71 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 61aae9a0c094

Subscribe to this mod's changes

searxng is a skill published in the GitHub repository RightNow-AI/openfang (18,170 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 726 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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