Serpapi Hello World

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Proving a new integration end to end
• With run a SerpAPI smoke test

Example prompts

• “run a SerpAPI smoke test”
• “/serpapi-hello-world”

Requirements

• Python 3
• A credential in SERPAPI_KEY
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code; a live smoke test requires a valid server-side key and may consume search allowance
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit, Bash(python3:*), Bash(npm:*)

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Confirm the query is non-sensitive and set explicit location, hl, and gl values when geographic reproducibility matters.
2. 2Check Account API for available searches and hourly throughput without spending allowance.
3. 3Preview one request with engine=google, q, and the minimum necessary parameters.
4. 4After approval, execute exactly one search with a finite client timeout.
5. 5Require search_metadata.status == "Success"; treat missing result sections as optional schema branches.
6. 6Extract only the fields required by the caller and preserve the search ID for support correlation.
7. 7Record client version, normalized parameters, status, elapsed time, result counts, and search ID with the key and sensitive query data…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. 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
  • Bash(python3:*)
  • Bash(npm:*)

  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
  • github.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; a live smoke test requires a valid server-side key and may consume search allowance

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Serpapi Hello World loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 373 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~59

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 cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 373 words, ~1,008 tokens.

name

serpapi-hello-world

description

Run a controlled first Google search through an official SerpAPI client and validate metadata before consuming result sections. Use when proving a new integration end to end. Trigger with "run a SerpAPI smoke test".

allowed-tools

Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, Write, Edit, Bash(python3:*), Bash(npm:*)

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code; a live smoke test requires a valid server-side key and may consume search allowance

argument-hint

[query] [python|javascript]

version

1.6.0

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

license

MIT

tags

saas, serpapi, google-search, smoke-test, sdk

model

inherit

effort

medium

import os
import serpapi

client = serpapi.Client(api_key=os.environ["SERPAPI_KEY"], timeout=15)
result = client.search({
    "engine": "google",
    "q": "coffee",
    "location": "Austin, Texas, United States",
    "hl": "en",
    "gl": "us",
})
assert result["search_metadata"]["status"] == "Success"
print({
    "search_id": result["search_metadata"]["id"],
    "organic_count": len(result.get("organic_results", [])),
})

© 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-hello-world of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287