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.
npx agentmods add skills/rowbradley/searchwave/wavenpx skills add rowbradley/searchwave --skill wavegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rowbradley/searchwaveWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00935 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00467 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00187 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00093 |
Grade A, and why
wave 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Searchwave
Quick web research synthesis in ~60 seconds.
Overview
Single orchestrator, 3 parallel searches, 3 parallel fetches. Produces a 300-400 word summary with sources. No questions asked — receives topic and runs immediately.
When to Use
Use /wave when:
- User asks for "quick lookup" or "fast research"
- Need context before a meeting or decision
- Simple factual questions
- Time-sensitive requests
Use /deepwave instead when:
- User wants depth selection or priority focus
- Complex topics requiring multiple angles
- Need confidence assessment and source evaluation
- "Deep research" or "comprehensive" requests
Use /firewave instead when:
- JS-heavy sources (docs sites, SPAs, React apps)
- WebFetch has failed or returned incomplete content
- Need content from dynamic/rendered pages
Variants
| Skill | Synthesis | Speed | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
/wave |
Opus (model default) | ~60s | Higher |
/searchwave-sonnet:wave |
Sonnet | ~60s | Lower |
/deepwave |
Opus | 70s-10min | Higher |
/searchwave-sonnet:deepwave |
Sonnet | 70s-10min | Lower |
Token-efficient alternative: Install searchwave-sonnet from the marketplace for Sonnet synthesis variants.
Execution
Complete in 60 seconds. Dense facts, not fluff.
Step 0: Print banner
Print this banner immediately:
╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ S E A R C H W A V E ║
║ · · · · · ║
║ Searching: 3 parallel queries ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝
Step 1: Search (3 parallel)
Fire 3 WebSearches in ONE message:
"[topic]" → baseline
"[topic] interesting" → non-obvious angles
"[topic] guide" → actionable content
All searches use blocked_domains: ["medium.com"] — Medium never fetches usefully.
Step 2: Curate (10 sec)
Pick 3 URLs. Prefer: gov/institutional, domain authorities, quality blogs.
Skip for fetching:
- Wikipedia (403s — use snippet from search results instead)
- Medium (blocked at search level — never useful)
- Paywalled sites
- SEO farms, outdated content
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 124 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 8caf985a1959
wave is a skill published in the GitHub repository rowbradley/searchwave (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 935 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.
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