search

search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from synaptiai/agent-capability-standard. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,868 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A search capability for finding relevant information in repositories, databases, websites, or other searchable collections when you do not yet know exactly where the answer is. It ranks results and includes supporting evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate files, records, web information, related resources, or candidate identity matches across searchable sources.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to inspect many sources manually when exploring an unfamiliar codebase or research area. It also helps discover related items and possible matches for the same entity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-capability-standard plugin — 42 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

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/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/search
Any agent
npx skills add synaptiai/agent-capability-standard --skill search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-capability-standard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 2 hooks.

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 search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/search.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/search.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,868 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00035 $0.02868
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01434
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00287

Measured 5d ago against content hash a564a50b1967, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search 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 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.

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.

skills/search/SKILL.md · 344 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 344 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Live Context

Available search context:

  • Current directory: !pwd
  • File types available: !find . -type f -not -path './.git/*' 2>/dev/null | sed 's/.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -10
  • Total searchable files: !find . -type f -not -path './.git/*' 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' '
  • Common directories: !find . -type d -maxdepth 2 -not -path './.git/*' 2>/dev/null | head -10
  • README files: !find . -name 'README*' -not -path './.git/*' 2>/dev/null | head -5

Intent

Execute search to find relevant information when you don't know exactly where to look. Unlike retrieve (which fetches known items), search explores under uncertainty and ranks results by relevance.

Success criteria:

  • Relevant results are found and ranked
  • Search strategy is appropriate for the domain
  • Coverage is sufficient for the use case
  • Results include relevance scores and evidence
  • False positives are minimized

World Modeling Context: Search feeds into the State Layer by discovering entities and observations to include in world-state. It supports the Identity & Continuity Layer by finding candidate matches for identity-resolution.

Compatible schemas:

  • schemas/output_schema.yaml

Inputs

Parameter Required Type Description
query Yes string What to search for (natural language or structured)
sources No array Where to search: repo, web, docs, database (default: infer)
constraints No object Time bounds, file types, domains, result limits
ranking_criteria No string relevance, recency, authority (default: relevance)

Procedure

  1. Parse query: Understand what the user is looking for

    • Extract key terms and concepts
    • Identify entity types being sought
    • Determine search intent (existence, discovery, comparison)
    • Expand with synonyms or related terms if appropriate
  2. Select search strategy: Based on sources and query type

    • Code/repo search: Use Grep patterns, file globs
    • Web search: Use web search tools with keywords
    • Documentation: Search docs directories, README files
    • Semantic: Expand query with related concepts

Read the full file on GitHub · 344 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 First seen · 344 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A a564a50b1967

Subscribe to this mod's changes

search is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/agent-capability-standard (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,868 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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