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/local-websearch

Search the web privately via a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine.

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Install
$ npx -y skills add CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS --skill local-websearch --agent claude-code

How 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.md
name: local-websearch
description: "Search the web privately via a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine."
version: "1.0.0"
metadata:
  author: CoWork OS Contributors <info@coworkosapp.com>
  source-author: "stperic"

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`.
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