search-first

search-first is a skill for Claude Code from xiaobei930/cc-best. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for researching existing libraries, tools, and solutions before writing custom code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a dependency, introducing a tool or framework, or solving an unfamiliar technical problem.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated work and helps developers decide whether to adopt, extend, combine, or build a solution after checking its fit and maintenance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cc-best plugin — 19 skills, 44 commands, 8 agents, 20 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a dependency, introducing a tool or framework, or solving an unfamiliar technical problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/search-first
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 xiaobei930/cc-best --skill search-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaobei930/cc-best

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-best, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 44 commands, 8 agents, 20 hooks.

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 search-first

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/search-first"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/search-first.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,149 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 $0.00030 $0.01149
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00115

Measured 4d ago against content hash 672cde6449b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-first 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 4d 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.

skills/search-first/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

研究优先工作流

编码前系统化搜索现有方案,做出 Adopt/Extend/Compose/Build 决策。

核心原则:不重复造轮子,但也不盲目引入依赖。

触发条件 | Trigger Conditions

  • /cc-best:lead 技术方案设计阶段
  • 需要引入新库/工具/框架时
  • 遇到"需要 X 功能"的需求时
  • 解决不熟悉的技术问题时

搜索流程 | Search Process

1. 并行搜索(限时 5-10 分钟)
   ├─ 包管理器(npm/PyPI/Maven 等,根据项目技术栈)
   ├─ MCP 服务器(如适用)
   ├─ GitHub/社区方案
   └─ 官方文档/API 参考

2. 方案评估
   ├─ 功能匹配度
   ├─ 维护活跃度(最近提交、issue 响应)
   ├─ 许可证兼容性
   └─ 依赖复杂度

3. 决策 + 记录
   ├─ 输出 Adopt/Extend/Compose/Build 决策
   ├─ 记录到 progress.md 决策表
   └─ 标注置信度

评估矩阵 | Decision Matrix

条件 决策 行动
精确匹配 + 活跃维护 + 兼容许可 采用 (Adopt) 直接安装使用
部分匹配 + 良好基础 扩展 (Extend) 安装 + 薄包装器适配
多个弱匹配 组合 (Compose) 组合 2-3 个小包
无合适方案 构建 (Build) 自研,但带着搜索知识

评估检查清单

- [ ] 功能是否满足核心需求(≥80%)
- [ ] 最近 6 个月内有提交
- [ ] 许可证与项目兼容(MIT/Apache/ISC 优先)
- [ ] 依赖数量合理(<20 direct deps)
- [ ] 有测试覆盖和文档
- [ ] 无已知安全漏洞

与角色工作流的集成 | Pipeline Integration

/cc-best:lead 工作流中,技术栈选型前自动触发:

PM(需求) → Lead(search-first → 方案设计) → Dev(实现)

集成方式

  1. Lead 角色:技术方案设计时,对每个新依赖执行 search-first
  2. Dev 角色:遇到"需要引入新工具"时,暂停编码执行 search-first
  3. Architect agent:架构决策中自动引用 search-first 结果

搜索策略 | Search Strategy

按场景选择搜索深度

场景 搜索深度 时间上限
已知成熟方案 浅搜索 2 分钟
常见功能需求 标准搜索 5 分钟
创新/罕见需求 深度搜索 10 分钟

搜索来源优先级

  1. 项目已有依赖(检查 package.json/go.mod 等)
  2. 项目技术栈生态的官方推荐
  3. 包管理器搜索(npm search / pip search 等)
  4. GitHub trending + awesome-xxx 列表
  5. WebSearch 通用搜索

决策记录模板 | Decision Template

### 搜索决策: [功能描述]

**搜索范围**: [npm/GitHub/WebSearch]
**候选方案**:

1. [方案A] - [优劣概述]
2. [方案B] - [优劣概述]

**决策**: [Adopt/Extend/Compose/Build] [方案名]
**理由**: [1-2 句]
**置信度**: [高/中/低]

最佳实践 | Best Practices

  1. 搜索有时间上限 — 超时用 MVP 方案,标记 TBD
  2. 不是每个工具都要搜索 — 区分"已知成熟方案"和"新需求"
  3. 检查维护状态 — star 多但 3 年未更新的比新库风险更高
  4. 考虑退出成本 — 深度耦合的依赖要慎重选择
  5. 记录搜索过程 — 即使决定 Build,也记录为什么不 Adopt

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 4d ago First seen · 120 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 672cde6449b4

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search-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaobei930/cc-best (50 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,149 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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