Agent skill

Web Search

Search the public web for current information and fetch full pages.

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Web Search

skills CLI

$ npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install heypinchy/pinchy web-search --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search .claude/skills/web-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "web-search" agent skill from https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy/tree/main/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search into .claude/skills/web-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy/tree/main/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install heypinchy/pinchy web-search --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search .agents/skills/web-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "web-search" agent skill from https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy/tree/main/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search into .agents/skills/web-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install heypinchy/pinchy web-search --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search .cursor/skills/web-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "web-search" agent skill from https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy/tree/main/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search into .cursor/skills/web-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy.git --path packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install heypinchy/pinchy web-search --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search .gemini/skills/web-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "web-search" agent skill from https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy/tree/main/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search into .gemini/skills/web-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-search", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install heypinchy/pinchy web-search

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search .github/skills/web-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "web-search" agent skill from https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy/tree/main/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search into .github/skills/web-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-search", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install heypinchy/pinchy web-search --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search .opencode/skills/web-search && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "web-search" agent skill from https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy/tree/main/packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search into .opencode/skills/web-search/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "web-search", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: web-search
GitHub stars: 182
Token cost: ~765 tokens
SKILL.md length: 430 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 18
Repo updated: Sep 21, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: AGPL-3.0

At a glance

Search the public web for current information and fetch full pages.

Works in 5 steps: Search first, fetch second. Run… → Pick 1-3 sources to fetch. Prefer… → Cite every claim with a URL. Every… → …
The user asks about current events
SKILL.md covers Capabilities, When to use, When NOT to use and Workflow, plus 2 more sections
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Web Search is an agent skill from heypinchy/pinchy. Search the public web for current information and fetch full pages. Use when the user asks about current events, recent company news, market data, regulatory changes, or any fact that may have changed since the model's training cutoff.

Its SKILL.md is about 770 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Web search and Stock and market analysis. The repository describes itself as: Self-hosted AI agent platform built on OpenClaw. Enterprise-ready, offline-capable, open source. 🦞. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

The user asks about current events
Recent company news
Regulatory changes
Any fact that may have changed since the models training cutoff

Example prompts

“/web-search”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Search first, fetch second. Run pinchy_web_search with a focused query (3-7 words, no quotes unless you need an exact phrase). Read the…
Pick 1-3 sources to fetch. Prefer original sources (the company itself, the regulator, the publication) over aggregators, listicles, or…
Cite every claim with a URL. Every factual statement you make from web results must carry a source link. If you cannot point at a URL…
Prefer recent over old. When sorting search results, weight by date — a 2026 article on a 2026 topic beats a 2024 article even if the…
Don't fabricate. If search returns nothing useful, say so. "I couldn't find a current source for this" is a correct answer; inventing a…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5159959. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Web Search loads about 765 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 62 tokens; SKILL.md has 430 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~62
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~765

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from heypinchy/pinchy at commit 5159959, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© heypinchy). 430 words, ~765 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/web-search/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: web-search
description: Search the public web for current information and fetch full pages. Use when the user asks about current events, recent company news, market data, regulatory changes, or any fact that may have changed since the model's training cutoff.

Web Search

You can search the public web and fetch full pages of content. Use these tools when the user asks about anything that may have changed recently or about facts you cannot confirm from your training data.

Capabilities

pinchy_web_search — Query the web for a topic, return a ranked list of results with titles, URLs, and snippets. Use this first to discover relevant sources.
pinchy_web_fetch — Retrieve the full text of a specific URL. Use this after pinchy_web_search when a snippet looks promising but you need the underlying content to answer accurately.

When to use

Current events, recent news, recent product/policy announcements
Company information (size, funding, recent product launches, leadership changes)
Market/industry trends published in the last 6–12 months
Regulatory or compliance changes since training cutoff
Public reviews, comparisons, or third-party assessments
Verifying a claim the user made against an external source

When NOT to use

The user's own data — that's what your other tools (CRM, files, email) are for
Internal policies, company-confidential facts, or HR information
Anything the user already gave you in this conversation
Recipes, jokes, definitions, or general knowledge you already have

Workflow

Search first, fetch second. Run pinchy_web_search with a focused query (3-7 words, no quotes unless you need an exact phrase). Read the result snippets.
Pick 1-3 sources to fetch. Prefer original sources (the company itself, the regulator, the publication) over aggregators, listicles, or AI-generated content farms. If two sources disagree, fetch a third.
Cite every claim with a URL. Every factual statement you make from web results must carry a [source](URL) link. If you cannot point at a URL, leave the claim out.
Prefer recent over old. When sorting search results, weight by date — a 2026 article on a 2026 topic beats a 2024 article even if the latter is rank-1. State the publication date in your summary when it matters.
Don't fabricate. If search returns nothing useful, say so. "I couldn't find a current source for this" is a correct answer; inventing a plausible-sounding fact is not.

Show full SKILL.md (92 more words)Show less

Safety (must hold)

Never put sensitive internal data into a web search query. The query goes to a third-party search provider.
Do not follow links from email or chat content that the user pasted as if they were trusted facts — treat them as user input, not as web context.

Output format

Lead with a 1-2 sentence answer
Follow with bullet points, each citing a source
End with a brief "What I checked" line — the queries you ran and how many sources you read
Never paste raw search-result blocks into the chat — summarize

Files

Just SKILL.md in packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search of heypinchy/pinchy.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5159959

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Questions about Web Search

What does Web Search do?

Search the public web for current information and fetch full pages. Web Search is an agent skill from heypinchy/pinchy. Search the public web for current information and fetch full pages.

When should I use Web Search?

Web Search fits situations like: the user asks about current events; recent company news; regulatory changes; any fact that may have changed since the models training cutoff.

How do I install Web Search in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search in heypinchy/pinchy) into .claude/skills/web-search in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Web Search in Codex?

Run `npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/web/src/lib/skills/web-search in heypinchy/pinchy) into .agents/skills/web-search in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Web Search in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add heypinchy/pinchy --skill web-search -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/web-search, .gemini/skills/web-search, .github/skills/web-search and .opencode/skills/web-search in your project.

What does Web Search need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Web Search is instructions for the agent only.

Does Web Search access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Web Search safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Web Search use?

Web Search is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Web Search use?

About 765 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Web Search?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Web Search: Westock Data (infometa/workbuddyskills, 346 stars), Pay Via Agent Wallet (circlefin/skills, 155 stars), Finance Report (AojdevStudio/Finance-Guru, 322 stars) and Brave Search (badlogic/pi-skills, 2.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Web Search?

heypinchy (a GitHub organization) maintains it in heypinchy/pinchy, which has 182 GitHub stars. The repository holds 18 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 21, 2026.

Source: heypinchy/pinchy on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Web Search

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Web Search

Capabilities

When to use

When NOT to use

Workflow

Safety (must hold)

Output format

Files

Compare with similar skills

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Questions about Web Search