org-search

org-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from szaffarano/org-mcp-server. It costs 107 tokens per session (539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search and browsing skill for Org-mode files, which are structured plain-text notes used by Emacs and other tools. It uses an org server to find files, headings, tags, and matching text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching personal notes, listing Org files, viewing document outlines, and reading complete files or specific headings.
Why use it?
It avoids manually opening many note files to locate information. It also helps navigate long outlines and read only the relevant section.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the org-mcp-server plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Searching personal notes, listing Org files, viewing document outlines, and reading complete files or specific headings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/szaffarano/org-mcp-server/org-search
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 szaffarano/org-mcp-server --skill org-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/szaffarano/org-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install org-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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 org-search

README.md
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Your own site
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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 org-search

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 539 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 $0.00107 $0.00539
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00054

Measured 11d ago against content hash ca1834a5b89a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

org-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 11d 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/org-search/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Search and browse org-mode documents using the @org MCP server.

Tools

Search — mcp__org__org-search

Fuzzy text search across all org files.

Parameters:

  • query (required): Search string
  • tags: Filter results by tags
  • limit: Max results
  • snippet_max_size: Snippet length in chars (default: 100). Use 300+ for more context.

File List — mcp__org__org-file-list

List org files in the configured directory.

Parameters:

  • tags: Filter by tags
  • limit: Max files

Resources

Use ReadMcpResourceTool with server: "org" to access file content:

URI pattern Use case
org:// List all org files
org://{file} Read full file content
org-outline://{file} Get heading structure (table of contents)
org-heading://{file}#{heading} Read a specific heading's content
org-id://{uuid} Access a node by its unique ID

Workflow

  1. Search for content: Use mcp__org__org-search with the user's query. If results are too broad, suggest narrowing with tags or more specific terms.
  2. Browse files: Use mcp__org__org-file-list to list available files, optionally filtered by tags.
  3. Explore structure: Read org-outline://{file} to see a file's heading hierarchy before diving in.
  4. Read content: Use org://{file} for full content or org-heading://{file}#{heading} to read a specific section.
  5. Present results: Show file name, matched heading, and relevant snippet. Link to deeper content when available.
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. 11d ago First seen · 61 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A ca1834a5b89a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

org-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository szaffarano/org-mcp-server (42 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 539 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.