duckduckgo-search-skill

duckduckgo-search-skill is a skill for Claude Code from zeenie-ai/OpenCompany. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,187 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-search tool that returns results from DuckDuckGo without requiring an API key.

In plain words
What is it for?
Search for news, facts, technical answers, and other information on the public web.
Why use it?
It provides a simple way to look up current information without configuring a paid search service or sharing searches with a tracking-based provider.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Search for news, facts, technical answers, and other information on the public web.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/duckduckgo-search-skill
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 zeenie-ai/OpenCompany --skill duckduckgo-search-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeenie-ai/OpenCompany

Made for: Claude Code.

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 duckduckgo-search-skill

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/duckduckgo-search-skill/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/duckduckgo-search-skill)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/duckduckgo-search-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/duckduckgo-search-skill/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 duckduckgo-search-skill

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/duckduckgo-search-skill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zeenie-ai/opencompany/duckduckgo-search-skill.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,187 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00026 $0.01187
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00119

Measured 9d ago against content hash b6fd8eecdcd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

duckduckgo-search-skill 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.

server/skills/web_agent/duckduckgo-search-skill/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DuckDuckGo Search Skill

This skill enables free web search via DuckDuckGo. No API key required.

For premium search providers, see the dedicated skills:

  • brave-search-skill - Brave Search API (independent index, privacy-focused)
  • serper-search-skill - Serper API (Google-powered, news/images/places)
  • perplexity-search-skill - Perplexity Sonar AI (synthesized answers with citations)

How It Works

This skill provides instructions and context. To execute web searches, connect the DuckDuckGo Search node to the agent's input-tools handle.

web_search Tool

Search the web using DuckDuckGo and get relevant results.

Schema Fields

Field Type Required Description
query string Yes The search query to look up on the web

Node Parameters

Parameter Default Description
maxResults 5 Number of results to return

Examples

Basic search:

{
  "query": "latest news about artificial intelligence"
}

Factual search:

{
  "query": "population of Tokyo 2024"
}

Current events:

{
  "query": "weather forecast New York today"
}

Technical search:

{
  "query": "how to use Python asyncio gather"
}

Response Format

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence news",
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "AI Breakthrough in Medical Research",
      "snippet": "Researchers have developed a new AI model that can predict...",
      "url": "https://example.com/ai-medical-research"
    },
    {
      "title": "OpenAI Announces New Model",
      "snippet": "The company revealed its latest advancement in...",
      "url": "https://example.com/openai-announcement"
    }
  ],
  "provider": "duckduckgo"
}

Use DuckDuckGo search when the user asks about:

  1. Current events and news - Recent happenings, breaking news, current affairs
  2. Real-time data - Stock prices, weather, sports scores, exchange rates
  3. Recent information - Events, releases, or changes after your knowledge cutoff
  4. Specific facts - Population, statistics, dates that may have changed
  5. Technical documentation - Latest API docs, library versions, tutorials
  6. Local information - Business hours, addresses, phone numbers
  7. Product information - Prices, availability, reviews

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 9d ago First seen · 167 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b6fd8eecdcd8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

duckduckgo-search-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository zeenie-ai/OpenCompany (889 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,187 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 2026-09-03.