you-free

you-free is a skill for Claude Code from youdotcom-oss/agent-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for basic web searches through You.com without requiring a login or paid API key. It is limited to finding current sources and search-result snippets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for basic current web searches and source discovery when you only need search results and snippets.
Why use it?
It provides a way to find web information when simple search results are enough. It does not cover full-page extraction, research reports, financial data, or live crawling.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the you plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for basic current web searches and source discovery when you only need search results and snippets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-free
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 youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-free
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install you, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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 you-free

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-free/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-free)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-free"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-free/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 you-free

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-free"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-free.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 632 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: 3 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 7
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 22
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 30
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00024 $0.00632
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00063

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6a9576af15d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

you-free 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 11d 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/you-free/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You.com Free Search MCP

Use this skill for basic current web search when the task only needs search results and does not require authentication.

Prerequisites

The free You.com MCP server profile must be installed and connected before using this skill:

  • Server URL: https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free
  • Auth: none. Do not require YDC_API_KEY or OAuth.
  • Required tool: you-search

If the task needs URL content extraction, cited research synthesis, finance, or livecrawl full-content search, use you-web, you-research, or you-finance instead.

MCP server

Use the You.com free MCP server profile at https://api.you.com/mcp?profile=free.

Required tool:

  • you-search: find current web sources and snippets.

Before using this skill, check the MCP tools available in the current agent environment:

  • If you-search is available, use it directly.
  • If you-search is missing, tell the user the You.com free MCP server profile is unavailable, provide the server URL and auth requirement from the prerequisites above, and request approval before installing, connecting, or changing MCP configuration.
  • The free profile does not require You.com auth via YDC_API_KEY or OAuth.

If an x402-aware MCP client receives an HTTP 402 with a payment-required header, treat it as a payment challenge, not a tool failure. Let the MCP client handle external payment and retry with Authorization: Payment ..., x-payment, or payment-signature headers when supported.

Do not use livecrawl=web with this skill. Do not use you-contents, you-research, or you-finance.

Tool selection

  • Use you-search for simple current lookup, source discovery, and search-result based answers.
  • If the user provides URLs, asks for synthesized cited research, or needs finance-specific data, this skill cannot satisfy the request. Use the appropriate You.com skill; if that path requires another MCP profile, request approval before installing, connecting, or changing configuration.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 11d ago First seen · 56 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 6a9576af15d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

you-free is a skill published in the GitHub repository youdotcom-oss/agent-skills (67 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 632 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 2026-08-30.

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