You.com Web Search & Research CLI

You.com Web Search & Research CLI extends your AI assistant with the ability to web search, research with citations, and content extraction for bash agents using curl and You.com's REST API. - MANDATORY TRIGGERS: You.com, youdotcom, YDC,... 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 You.com Web Search & Research CLI as its underlying capability.

You.com Web Search & Research CLI 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 You.com Web Search & Research CLI 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 You.com Web Search & Research CLI takes about two minutes. Place the skill at `~/.claude/skills/youdotcom-cli/` (personal, all projects) or `.claude/skills/youdotcom-cli/` (project-specific), then restart your AI client. From that point, typing `/youdotcom-cli` in any conversation activates it, or the AI will use it on its own when it detects a relevant request.

You.com Web Search & Research CLI has been installed 2,526 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.