web-search

web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thewolffish/wolffish-app. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,699 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web research tool for searching online and reading pages, including current documentation, news, and research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up current facts, technical documentation, news, research papers, and information from specific websites.
Why use it?
It removes the need to rely on possibly outdated knowledge or manually open every search result. It can fetch ordinary pages, while a browser is better for pages requiring login or interaction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to look up current facts, technical documentation, news, research papers, and information from specific websites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thewolffish/wolffish-app/web-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 thewolffish/wolffish-app --skill web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thewolffish/wolffish-app

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 web-search

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thewolffish/wolffish-app/web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thewolffish/wolffish-app/web-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,699 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.
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 $0.00020 $0.01699
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00170

Measured 9d ago against content hash f82ef3071259, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (plugin/index.mjs), 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.

src/defaults/workspace/brain/cerebellum/web-search/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tools

  • web_search — search the web, returns titles + snippets + URLs
  • web_fetch — fetch and read full page content from a URL

Search is one of three routes — pick deliberately

These two tools are not the only way to reach the web, and often not the best one. The third is the browser extension (tool_activate("browser-extension")), which drives the user's real browser.

reaches costs
web_search an index — snippets, never a page real money per query; very fast
web_fetch whatever a server returns to a bare GET free, instant; blind to JS, paywalls, logins, bot checks
browser extension essentially any page the user can open, and can click/scroll/fill more tokens, more seconds; needs a connected browser

Lean toward the browser whenever the task names a specific site, needs a logged-in or paid-for page, needs interaction, spans more than a page or two, or when a fetch came back thin. Two failed fetches cost more than opening the browser would have. Nothing here is a rule — weigh it yourself; these are the trade-offs to weigh.

Use web_search when the user:

  • Asks about current events, recent news, or anything time-sensitive
  • Needs documentation or reference material
  • Asks "what is X", "who is X", or "how to do X" and you aren't confident in your answer
  • Wants to look something up, find a link, or research a topic
  • Asks about something you don't have reliable knowledge about
  • Needs live data (prices, weather, scores, stock info)

When to use web_fetch

Use web_fetch after web_search when:

  • The snippets from search results aren't enough to fully answer the question
  • You need to read an article, documentation page, or reference in detail
  • The user explicitly asks you to read or visit a specific URL

Fetch the most relevant 1–2 URLs, not all of them. Never fetch more than 3 pages in one conversation turn.

Read what comes back before trusting it. A page that returns a few hundred characters, a cookie banner, "enable JavaScript", a login form, or a subscribe wall did not actually load — it just failed quietly with a 200. Don't re-fetch it and don't answer from the fragment: that page is a job for the browser extension, which renders it as the user's own browser would. The same goes for any site you already know is JS-rendered or gated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. 9d ago First seen · 208 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A f82ef3071259

Subscribe to this mod's changes

web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository thewolffish/wolffish-app (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,699 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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