Use Case
Stop doing repetitive developer & devops tasks manually. Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. 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. This guide shows practical examples of using Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) to automate common developer & devops workflows and save hours every week.
Install Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh): npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install searxng-bangs
Identify the repetitive developer & devops tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh)
Automate my developer & devops tasks using Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh)
What repetitive tasks can Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs Privacy-first web search with DuckDuckGo-style bangs (!w, !yt, !gh) every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install searxng-bangsOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install searxng-bangsβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/searxng-bangs/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.