local-web-search

local-web-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from uluckyXH/OpenMOSS. It costs 72 tokens per session (387 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for searching the web through a local Responses API and returning a summary with citations, which are links showing where the information came from.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for on-demand lookups, news monitoring, and searches that need cited results.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to run live or cached web searches from the command line and keep the supporting sources.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it for on-demand lookups, news monitoring, and searches that need cited results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uluckyxh/openmoss/local-web-search
About the project

OpenMOSS is an operating system for teams of AI agents: it organizes agents into roles that plan, execute, review, and monitor work autonomously. It is for running recurring, multi-step tasks with little or no human coordination. The catalogue skills and agents extend the team’s abilities and workflows.

uluckyXH/OpenMOSS · 1,322 stars · on GitHub

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 uluckyXH/OpenMOSS --skill local-web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uluckyXH/OpenMOSS

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-web-search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/uluckyxh/openmoss/local-web-search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/uluckyxh/openmoss/local-web-search)
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 local-web-search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/uluckyxh/openmoss/local-web-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/uluckyxh/openmoss/local-web-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 387 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 19
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 23
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00072 $0.00387
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00193
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00039

Measured 10d ago against content hash ae5199f72add, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

local-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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/local_web_search.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.

skills/local-web-search/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Local Web Search (local-160)

Use the local Responses API with web_search to get web results and citations.

Quick start

  1. Ensure env vars are set or Keychain entries are configured (see references/CONFIG.md).
  2. Run the script:
/usr/bin/python3 {baseDir}/scripts/local_web_search.py --query "<your query>" --mode live

Optional (explicit .env path):

/usr/bin/python3 {baseDir}/scripts/local_web_search.py \
  --env-file ~/.openclaw/workspace/.env \
  --query "<your query>" \
  --mode cached

Timeout default is 1200s. Override via --timeout or LOCAL_160_TIMEOUT. Note: web_search responses can be slow; 5–10 minutes is common and up to ~20 minutes is possible. Don’t treat it as failure unless it exceeds your timeout.

Output handling

  • Default output: one-sentence summary + up to 5 citations.
  • Use --json when you need full tool output for parsing.
  • Use --mode live|cached|disabled to control external web access.

When to use

  • For web lookups when local-160 supports web_search.
  • For scheduled news monitoring that should use local-160 search.

Troubleshooting

  • 401/403: key missing/invalid.
  • 5xx: local gateway down or base URL wrong.
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. 10d ago First seen · 46 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A ae5199f72add

Subscribe to this mod's changes

local-web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository uluckyXH/OpenMOSS (1,322 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 387 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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