you-web

you-web is a skill for Claude Code from youdotcom-oss/agent-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using You.com tools to search the current web, extract content from URLs, and produce answers with sources. You.com is a web-search service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the web, read specific web pages, compare sources, and prepare research-based answers.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a defined way to obtain up-to-date information and handle cited research, when the required You.com connection is available.

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 to search the web, read specific web pages, compare sources, and prepare research-based answers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-web
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-web
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-web

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-web"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/you-web.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 38
    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 $0.00028 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00094

Measured 9d ago against content hash 085e4ab2c548, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

you-web 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 9d 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-web/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You.com Web MCP

Use You.com MCP tools when the answer depends on current web information, source comparison, cited synthesis, or reading specific URLs.

Prerequisites

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

  • Server URL: https://api.you.com/mcp
  • Auth: either YDC_API_KEY bearer auth, OAuth login into the server, or an x402-aware MCP client that can process 402 payment-required challenges
  • Required tools: you-search, you-contents, and you-research

For bearer auth, configure the host MCP client with an authorization header equivalent to:

{
  "Authorization": "Bearer ${YDC_API_KEY}"
}

If auth is not available and the client is not x402-aware, use the you-free skill for basic search.

MCP server

Use the You.com MCP server at https://api.you.com/mcp. The normal setup is YDC_API_KEY bearer auth or OAuth login. x402-aware clients can receive upstream payment challenges and retry search or contents calls through MCP with payment headers.

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

  • If you-search, you-contents, and you-research are available, use them directly.
  • If the server or required tools are missing, tell the user which capability is missing, provide the server URL and auth options from the prerequisites above, and request approval before installing, connecting, or changing MCP configuration.
  • Do not invent MCP commands for the host. Use the host's installed MCP tool interface.

x402 payment behavior

  • The MCP server forwards payment retry headers upstream: Authorization: Payment ..., x-payment, and payment-signature.
  • For you-search, you-contents, and the corresponding REST endpoints, use x402 payment challenges only.
  • If a search or contents tool call returns HTTP 402 with payment-required, let the MCP client handle payment externally and retry. Do not treat that response as a final answer.
  • Research and finance endpoints have broader MPP/x402 support; use the you-research or you-finance skill for those flows.
  • For keyless payment with no API key and no manual signing, compose the You.com MCP server with the Coinbase Payments MCP server so the host handles payment; see Coinbase Payments MCP path.
  • Account balance is private billing data; do not access balance endpoints through keyless payment flows.
  • Do not implement wallet signing or payment settlement inside this skill. Use the host MCP client's x402 flow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 80 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 085e4ab2c548

Subscribe to this mod's changes

you-web is a skill published in the GitHub repository youdotcom-oss/agent-skills (67 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 940 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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