Serpapi Core Workflow B

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Combining Google
• With build a SerpAPI multi-engine search

Example prompts

• “build a SerpAPI multi-engine search”
• “/serpapi-core-workflow-b”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in SERPAPI_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; every approved live engine request may affect account allowance and throughput
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

Workflow steps

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

1. 1List the approved engines and define the exact user value each contributes; remove redundant calls.
2. 2Re-fetch each engine's first-party API page and record its query, locale, pagination, safety, and result-section contract.
3. 3Build an allowlisted engine map rather than forwarding arbitrary client parameters.
4. 4Set per-engine timeouts, maximum records, concurrency, and total searches before execution.
5. 5Execute independently so one engine failure does not erase successful results from another.
6. 6Normalize to a tagged union retaining engine, search_id, source URL, rank, and engine-specific payload where required.
7. 7Test normal, empty-success, missing-section, partial-failure, and duplicate-source fixtures; report searches consumed by engine.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 80f86df. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • WebFetch
  • Write
  • Edit

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are python).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • serpapi.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • SERPAPI_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code; every approved live engine request may affect account allowance and throughput

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Serpapi Core Workflow B loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 63 tokens; SKILL.md has 360 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~63

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1k

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

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 jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit 80f86df, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 360 words, ~1,032 tokens.

name

serpapi-core-workflow-b

description

Design a multi-engine SerpAPI workflow with explicit parameter maps, result adapters, budgets, and provenance. Use when combining Google, Bing, YouTube, News, Shopping, or Maps. Trigger with "build a SerpAPI multi-engine search".

allowed-tools

Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code; every approved live engine request may affect account allowance and throughput

argument-hint

[engines] [query] [result-limit]

version

1.6.0

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

license

MIT

tags

saas, serpapi, multi-engine, youtube, maps

model

inherit

effort

high

ENGINE_MAP = {
    "google": ("q", "organic_results"),
    "bing": ("q", "organic_results"),
    "youtube": ("search_query", "video_results"),
    "google_news": ("q", "news_results"),
    "google_shopping": ("q", "shopping_results"),
    "google_maps": ("q", "local_results"),
}

def build_request(engine, query):
    query_key, _ = ENGINE_MAP[engine]
    request = {"engine": engine, query_key: query}
    if engine == "google_maps":
        request["type"] = "search"
    return request

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/.curated/serpapi-core-workflow-b of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 80f86df