software-search

software-search is a skill for Codex from vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public. It costs 27 tokens per session (7,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building application search, from choosing a search engine to indexing data and tuning result relevance. It covers keyword, vector, hybrid, autocomplete, and filtered search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a search engine, build full-text or vector search, add autocomplete and facets, and measure search quality.
Why use it?
It helps users find the right search approach and avoid poorly matched results or unnecessary search infrastructure.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to choose a search engine, build full-text or vector search, add autocomplete and facets, and measure search quality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/software-search
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public --skill software-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,504 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 $0.00027 $0.07504
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.03752
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01501
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00750

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4b34ea2d1274, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-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 7d 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.

frameworks/shared-skills/skills/software-search/SKILL.md · 543 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 543 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search Engineering

Build search features that return the right results, fast.

Quick Reference

Need Recommended Options
Full-text search (managed) Algolia (fastest DX), Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (most flexible)
Full-text search (lightweight) Typesense (simple), Meilisearch (developer-friendly)
Full-text search (embedded) SQLite FTS5, Tantivy (Rust), Lunr.js (client-side)
PostgreSQL built-in pg_trgm + tsvector/tsquery (good enough for many apps)
Vector search pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant
Hybrid search Keyword + vector, reciprocal rank fusion
Autocomplete Prefix matching, search-as-you-type index, debounced queries
Faceted search Aggregation queries, filter counts, hierarchical facets
Search analytics Click-through rate, zero-result queries, query refinement patterns
Search UI InstantSearch.js (Algolia), SearchKit, custom

When to Use This Skill

  • Choosing a search engine or evaluating whether PostgreSQL search is sufficient
  • Building full-text search, autocomplete, or faceted filtering
  • Designing an indexing pipeline from source data to search index
  • Tuning relevance scoring, synonyms, or ranking signals
  • Implementing search analytics to measure and improve quality
  • Debugging search quality issues (missing results, poor ranking, slow queries)

When NOT to Use This Skill

  • RAG and retrieval for LLM context augmentationai-rag
  • Database query optimization (SQL performance)data-sql-optimization
  • Marketing SEO and search visibilitymarketing-seo
  • Product analytics and event trackingmarketing-product-analytics
  • Backend API design and architecturesoftware-backend

Workflow

  1. Confirm the search problem: engine choice, indexing pipeline, relevance, autocomplete, or analytics.
  2. Route RAG, database tuning, SEO, or API-architecture questions to the adjacent skill when product search is not the real problem.
  3. Choose PostgreSQL, a dedicated search engine, vector search, or hybrid search from the decision tree.
  4. Apply the relevant guidance for indexing, ranking, facets, autocomplete, and measurement.
  5. Verify current engine capabilities and hosted-service behavior through the navigation references before final recommendations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 543 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 543 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 4b34ea2d1274

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software-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public (87 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 7,504 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 2026-09-03.

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