zero-api-key-web-search

zero-api-key-web-search is a skill for Codex from wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search. It costs 66 tokens per session (597 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search and page-reading skill for Codex that gathers sources and checks whether factual claims are supported. It can search across several engines and handle some blocked pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the web, read pages, check claims, and produce evidence reports with source-backed findings.
Why use it?
It helps verify changing or uncertain information instead of relying on unsupported statements.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/. Also seen: mentions Codex.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search/codex
Any agent
npx skills add wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search --skill codex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wd041216-bit/zero-api-key-web-search

Made for: Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 597 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00066 $0.00597
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00060

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2855af4a3881, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

.codex/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zero-API-Key Web Search for Codex

Use this skill when Codex needs current information, supporting citations, or a compact evidence report before answering.

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
  • reading pages that return 403 or require geo-targeted access
  • workflows where conflicting evidence should be surfaced instead of hidden

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.
  • Use optional brightdata only when configured or explicitly requested. New users can sign up at https://get.brightdata.com/h21j9xz4uxgd.

Limits

  • zero-verify is heuristic and evidence-aware, not a proof engine.
  • The default path still starts with ddgs.
  • Bright Data is optional and should not receive queries unless configured or requested.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 6d ago First seen · 65 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 2855af4a3881

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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 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 597 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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