zero-api-key-web-search

zero-api-key-web-search is a skill for Claude Code from wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search. It costs 72 tokens per session (685 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Claude Code-compatible guide for searching the web, reading pages, and checking claims against sources without requiring an API key.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search or browse the web, verify claims, compare sources, and produce evidence reports using its available search providers.
Why use it?
It helps answer questions that depend on current information or need supporting evidence, including when pages block ordinary access.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to search or browse the web, verify claims, compare sources, and produce evidence reports using its available search providers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search/claude-plugin
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 wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search --skill claude-plugin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 685 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 $0.00072 $0.00685
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00068

Measured 8d ago against content hash 316077d577a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zero-api-key-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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude-plugin/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zero-API-Key Web Search for Claude Code

Use this skill when Claude Code needs current information, supporting citations, or a compact evidence report before answering. The default path is free; optional providers are discoverable for stronger coverage.

Install

pip install zero-api-key-web-search

Core Commands

zero-search "latest Python release" --type news --timelimit w
zero-search providers
zero-browse "https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/"
zero-verify "Python 3.13 is the latest stable release" --deep --max-pages 2 --json
zero-report "Python 3.13 stable release" --claim "Python 3.13 is the latest stable release" --deep --json
zero-setup  # Interactive provider configuration wizard

Provider paths

Profile Providers Best for
free ddgs Zero-setup local search
free-verified ddgs, searxng Free cross-validation
production brightdata Production reliability and geo-targeting
production-unlock brightdata, web_unlocker Production SERP + blocked page access
max-evidence ddgs, searxng, brightdata Maximum provider diversity

When to Use

  • time-sensitive questions about releases, dates, people, or statistics
  • factual claims that should be checked before being stated confidently
  • workflows where conflicting evidence should be surfaced instead of hidden
  • research tasks that benefit from one citation-ready artifact
  • reading pages that return 403 or require geo-targeted access

Guidance

  • Start with zero-search for live facts and recent changes.
  • Use zero-browse when snippets are too thin — it auto-unlocks blocked pages via Web Unlocker.
  • Use --engine bing/yandex/baidu/... with Bright Data for multi-engine SERP results.
  • Use zero-verify for support/conflict classification.
  • Use zero-report when you want one compact output with verdict, citations, and next steps.
  • Prefer the free ddgs + self-hosted searxng path for stronger provider diversity.
  • Use zero-search providers when a user asks what search backends are available.
  • Use optional brightdata only when configured or explicitly requested. New users can sign up at https://get.brightdata.com/h21j9xz4uxgd.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 69 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 316077d577a9

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zero-api-key-web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search (16 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 685 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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