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local-websearch

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About local-websearch

A skill for private web searches through a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine. It returns structured results for web lookups and recent facts not covered by local files.

Key features

  1. 01Private web search
  2. 02Self-hosted SearXNG metasearch
  3. 03Titles, URLs, and snippets
  4. 04Structured search results

Use cases

  1. 01Looking up recent facts
  2. 02Searching the web privately
  3. 03Finding information absent from local files

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/cowork-os/cowork-os --skill local-websearch

After installing, type/local-websearchin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled files_meta.jsonsearxng_search.py

Details

From the project README

local-websearch

Purpose

Search the web privately via a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine.

Routing

  • Use when: Use when users ask for web lookup, private browsing, or recent facts not in local files.
  • Do not use when: Don't use for internal workspace-only questions already covered by local docs or files.
  • Outputs: Structured search results with titles, URLs, and snippets.
  • Success criteria: Returns concise results with enough context to support a cited answer.

Trigger Examples

Positive
  • Use the local-websearch skill for this request.
  • Help me with local-websearch.
  • Use when users ask for web lookup, private browsing, or recent facts not in local files.
  • local-websearch: provide an actionable result.
Negative
  • Don't use for internal workspace-only questions already covered by local docs or files.
  • Do not use local-websearch for unrelated requests.
  • This request is outside local-websearch scope.
  • This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: 1364 characters.
  • Runtime prompt is defined directly in ../local-websearch.json.

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