/local-websearch
Search the web privately via a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine.
$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill local-websearch --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/local-websearch
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Search the web privately via a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine.
SKILL.md
local-websearch.SKILL.mdname: local-websearch description: "Search the web privately via a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine."
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`.
Local-first personal agentic OS and everything app for coding, knowledge work, web design, automations, and artifacts.
Repo: CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS
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