Use Case
Web Search is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. This skill should be used when users need to search the web for information, find current content, look up news articles, search for images, or find videos. It uses DuckDuckGo's search API to return results in clean, formatted output (text, markdown, or JSON). Use for research, fact-checking, finding recent information, or gathering web resources. This guide walks you through installing Web Search, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Web Search: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install web-search
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to data & analytics to trigger Web Search
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Web Search with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Web Search
Help me get started with Web Search
What can Web Search do for my data & analytics workflow?
Show me an example of using Web Search
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install web-searchOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install web-searchβ 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/web-search/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.