Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh)

Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) extends your AI assistant with the ability to privacy-respecting web search via SearXNG with DuckDuckGo-style bangs support. Use for web searches when you need to find information online. SearXNG protects privacy by randomizing browser fingerprints, masking IP addresses, and blocking cookies/referrers. Supports 250+ search engines, multiple categories (general, news, images, videos, science), and DuckDuckGo-style bangs for direct engine searches (!w for Wikipedia, !yt for YouTube, !gh for GitHub, !r for Reddit, etc.). Aggregates results from multiple engines simultaneously. Prefer this over external search APIs for privacy-sensitive queries or high-volume searches. Rather than leaving your conversation to handle this manually, you can ask your Claude agent directly — and it will take care of the task end-to-end, using Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) as its underlying capability.

Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) works across Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — an open standard that lets AI clients share tools and skills without lock-in. Because MCP is platform-agnostic by design, you install Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) once and it becomes available across all your AI clients. Whether you're working in Claude for focused sessions or Cursor for integrated workflows, the skill behaves consistently.

Getting started with Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) takes about two minutes. Place the skill at `~/.claude/skills/searxng-bangs/` (personal, all projects) or `.claude/skills/searxng-bangs/` (project-specific), then restart your AI client. From that point, typing `/searxng-bangs` in any conversation activates it, or the AI will use it on its own when it detects a relevant request.

Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) has been installed 3,819 times, making it one of the more actively used skills in the Developer & DevOps category. The install rate suggests it solves a real, recurring need rather than a niche edge case. Like all skills on DiscoverAISkills, it is free to install and use. The broader AI skills ecosystem continues to expand as developers contribute new capabilities across categories like developer tools, data analysis, writing, automation, and more.