Web Search Skill

SkillSearch

Search the web using SearXNG (self-hosted metasearch - no API key needed)

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Web Search Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by sciknow-io/skillful-alhazen in skills/web-search/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this skill whenever you need to search the web. SearXNG aggregates results from Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and other engines. No API key required.

Triggers: "search for", "look up", "find information about", "what is", "who is", "google", "search the web"

Search

curl -s "${SEARXNG_URL:-http://localhost:8888}/search?q=QUERY&format=json" | python3 -c "
import sys, json
r = json.load(sys.stdin)
results = r.get('results', [])[:5]
print(f'{len(results)} results:\n')
for x in results:
    print(x.get('title',''))
    print(x.get('url',''))
    print(x.get('content','')[:300])
    print()
"

Replace QUERY with URL-encoded search terms — spaces as +, e.g. Gully+Burns+neuroscience.

Notes

  • Results are already ranked by relevance
  • Use [:10] instead of [:5] to get more results
  • For site-specific search, add site:example.com to the query
  • SEARXNG_URL is set automatically per environment (localhost:8888 on macmini, searxng:8080 on VPS)

Signals

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Last commit
Aug 2026
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Item type
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Key
web-search-sciknow-io
Source
github.com/sciknow-io/skillful-alhazen