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ask-search

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Web search via self-hosted SearxNG. Aggregates Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave. Returns title/url/snippet. Zero API key required. Optional Tavily backend via SEARCH_PROVIDER=tavily.

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  • In this repositoryOne other file it gives its agents.

The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈1

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 2

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Very specific:

    Run ask-search "topic" to get candidates

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  2. Distinctive:

    Check snippet — if enough, answer directly

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  3. Very specific:

    If snippet truncated, use web_fetch on the URL for full content

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Files
SKILL.md

ask-search

Web search powered by SearxNG. Aggregates multiple search engines, no API key needed (optional Tavily backend).

Usage

ask-search "your query"                    # top 10 results
ask-search "query" --num 5                 # limit results
ask-search "AI news" --categories news     # news only
ask-search "query" --lang zh-CN            # Chinese results
ask-search "query" --urls-only             # URL list (pipe to web_fetch)
ask-search "query" --json                  # raw JSON

Agent Workflow

  1. Run ask-search "topic" to get candidates
  2. Check snippet — if enough, answer directly
  3. If snippet truncated, use web_fetch on the URL for full content

Parameters

FlagShortDescription
--num N-nMax results (default 10)
--engines-egoogle,bing,duckduckgo,brave
--lang-lzh-CN, en, ja, ko
--categories-cgeneral,news,images,science
--json-jRaw JSON output
--urls-only-uURLs only

Setup

Requires SearxNG running locally, with json in search.formats (the bundled searxng/ Docker Compose setup does this). Set SEARXNG_URL if not on default port 8080.

bash install.sh            # installs the `ask-search` command (sudo, or: bash install.sh ~/.local/bin)

Optional Tavily backend: SEARCH_PROVIDER=tavily + TAVILY_API_KEY (--engines/--lang/--categories are ignored in this mode).

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