search1api

search1api is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from superagents-lab/search1api-cli. It costs 194 tokens per session (4,396 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A live web research tool for searching the internet, retrieving pages, finding news and sitemaps, and discovering links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search topics, read or summarize URLs, check news, explore websites, discover sitemaps, and find trending subjects.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent a way to obtain current information and turn a website into a reusable agent skill.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search topics, read or summarize URLs, check news, explore websites, discover sitemaps, and find trending subjects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/superagents-lab/search1api-cli/search1api
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 superagents-lab/search1api-cli --skill search1api
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superagents-lab/search1api-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,396 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00194 $0.04396
Opus 5.5 $0.00078 $0.01758
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00879
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00440

Measured 5d ago against content hash fdd2adbc9f4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

search1api 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 5d 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 -fsSL https://cli.search1api.com/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://cli.search1api.com/install.sh | bash
skills/search1api/SKILL.md · 404 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 404 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search1API

Live web research through the s1 command-line tool.

Prerequisites

Every command in this skill runs through s1. Check that it is installed and authenticated:

s1 balance

If the command is not found, install it:

curl -fsSL https://cli.search1api.com/install.sh | bash

Or via npm:

npm install -g search1api-cli

Then authenticate — prefer browser login, so no key is pasted into the conversation:

s1 login

Manual fallback:

s1 config set-key <your-api-key>

You can also set the environment variable SEARCH1API_KEY.

Do not install anything when s1 already works. To update an existing install, the user can run s1 update — only suggest this when a command fails in a version-related way.

If s1 is not found after installing, check that the npm global bin directory is on PATH. npx -y search1api-cli <command> works as a fallback without any install:

npx -y search1api-cli balance

Auth and credit errors are terminal. When a command reports an invalid key or insufficient credits, confirm the state once with s1 balance, then tell the user what is blocking and stop. Retrying the same command returns the same error.

When to use

User intent Command
Shares a URL / link → read and summarize s1 crawl <url>
Wants to search the web s1 search "<query>"
Asks a question that spans sources, unsure where to look s1 ask "<question>"
Wants the full page behind a search result s1 crawl <url>
Wants news s1 news "<query>"
Wants to explore a site's links s1 sitemap <url>
Wants trending topics s1 trending <service>
Wants to check remaining credits s1 balance
Wants an agent to keep a URL for later use s1 learn <url>

Read it once, or learn it for good?

These look similar and are not:

  • "What does this page say?", "summarize this link", "read these docs and answer X" → s1 crawl. One page, answer now, nothing written to disk.
  • "Learn this URL", "make a skill out of these docs", "记住这个文档" → s1 learn. Produces an installable skill directory the user's agent can load later.
  • Scope follows the request. A single link is one page; a documentation set ("learn these docs", "学一下 XX 文档") is --site pointed at its root — that is the normal case, not an escalation. When it is genuinely unclear, run --discover and show the user what a full run would cover.

Read the full file on GitHub · 404 lines

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. 5d ago Changed · +1 lines fdd2adbc9f4f
  2. 7d ago Changed · +32 lines · +4 tokens per session 75207ad2c47f
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · -19 tokens per session 505aa6a93697
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 369 lines · 209 tokens per session scan C d991691275e2

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search1api is a skill published in the GitHub repository superagents-lab/search1api-cli (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 4,396 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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