local-search

local-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from taxueseek/argo. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,434 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A local search component that finds web results using installed command-line tools and page parsers. It supports general web search and extra sources for areas such as Chinese pages, news, code questions, academic work, and reference material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web research in fast or budget modes, especially when SearXNG is unavailable or when a specialized local search source may help.
Why use it?
It provides a fallback when a remote search service is unavailable and can reduce use of paid search APIs. Results follow the same format as the main search system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/search.py "query" --local-first --mode fast.

Good fit Use it for web research in fast or budget modes, especially when SearXNG is unavailable or when a specialized local search source may help.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/taxueseek/argo
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/taxueseek/argo/local-search

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 local-search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/taxueseek/argo/local-search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/taxueseek/argo/local-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/taxueseek/argo/local-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/taxueseek/argo/local-search/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 local-search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/taxueseek/argo/local-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/taxueseek/argo/local-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,434 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 $0.00059 $0.01434
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00574
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00143

Measured 28d ago against content hash 5498c3cdb9ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-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 28d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (bm25.py, cli_runner.py, engine_registry.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

sub-skills/local-search/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Local Search 是 argo 的「零成本兜底适配器」,用于:

  • 在 --mode fast / --mode budget 下优先使用本地抓取引擎,避免消耗付费 API 配额。
  • 当 SearXNG 不可用时,回退到本地 HTML/JSON 解析。
  • 对中文网页、新闻、代码问答、学术、参考百科等垂直域提供补充结果。

设计原则

  • 不单独响应触发词:仅作为 argo 的子能力,由 --local-first 调用。
  • 输出与主 skill 同 schema:results[] / engines_used / errors / elapsed_ms,可直接进 evidence 与 RRF。
  • local_X 与主清单的 X 是别名,不是备份:local_arxiv/local_crossref/local_semantic_scholar/local_github/local_npm/local_wikipedia/local_stackoverflow/local_google_news 与主清单同名项打同一个上游端点(主清单走官方 API、这里走免密钥直取),不存在「API 挂了抓取版兜底」。同上游同格式由 tests/test_local_search_registry.py 锁定。

本地引擎列表(29 个,27 个默认启用)

unified 名称 类型 默认启用 类别 说明
local_bing cli(ddgs) ✅ web_general Bing 网页结果(ddgs -b bing + JSON)
local_yandex cli(ddgs) ✅ web_general/japanese Yandex 搜索(ddgs -b yandex)
local_duckduckgo cli(ddgs) ✅ web_general DuckDuckGo(ddgs 默认)
local_brave cli(ddgs) ✅ web_general Brave 搜索(ddgs -b brave,实测稳定)
local_yahoo cli(ddgs) ✅ web_general Yahoo 搜索(ddgs -b yahoo,实测稳定)
local_baidu html ✅ chinese 百度搜索
local_sogou html ✅ chinese 搜狗搜索
local_360 html ✅ chinese 360 搜索
local_jisilu html ✅ finance/chinese 集思录
local_ddgs_news cli(ddgs) ✅ news ddgs news 默认后端(带日期)
local_bing_news rss ✅ news Bing 新闻 RSS
local_google_news rss ✅ news Google News RSS
local_duckduckgo_news cli(ddgs) ✅ news ddgs news 备用后端
local_ddgs_images cli(ddgs) ✅ images ddgs images(bing TLS 偶发,已自动重试)
local_ddgs_videos cli(ddgs) ✅ videos ddgs videos
local_arxiv xml ✅ academic arXiv API
local_pubmed json ✅ academic PubMed/EUtils
local_crossref json ✅ academic Crossref API
local_semantic_scholar json ✅ academic Semantic Scholar API
local_github json ✅ code GitHub Search API
local_stackoverflow json ✅ code StackOverflow 问题
local_gitlab json ✅ code GitLab API
local_npm json ✅ code NPM Registry
local_wikipedia json ✅ reference MediaWiki API(ddgs wikipedia backend 结果过少)
local_wiktionary json ✅ reference Wiktionary API
local_wikiquote json ✅ reference Wikiquote API
local_imdb html ❌ vertical IMDb 搜索
local_goodreads html ❌ vertical Goodreads 搜索
local_openstreetmap json ✅ vertical Nominatim API

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 28d ago Changed · -1 lines · -7 tokens per session 5498c3cdb9ba
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -3 lines a33e948b1e2a
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -9 lines 75073b4ff4a9
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 5024af890b29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository taxueseek/argo (209 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,434 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories