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Web Search Plugin

A Claude Code plugin that provides web search, content extraction, and research tools. Search the web, Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, X/Twitter, Wikipedia, arXiv, and package registries - all from your Claude session. Powered by DuckDuckGo with automatic Exa AI fallback for JS-heavy and Cloudflare-protected pages.

Tools

Web & Content Discovery

Tool Description
search_web Search the web via DuckDuckGo (text or news, domain-scoped)
search_exa Semantic search via Exa AI (filters, search type, content options)
fetch_web_page Extract clean text content from any URL (Exa fallback for JS-heavy pages)

Community Platforms

Tool Description
search_reddit Search Reddit via keyless RSS + shreddit enrichment
search_hackernews Search Hacker News via Algolia API
search_github Search GitHub Issues and PRs
search_x Search X/Twitter (requires AUTH_TOKEN + CT0 cookies)
get_github_issue Fetch a full GitHub Issue or PR thread with all comments

AI-Powered Research (requires GROQ_API_KEY)

Tool Description
groq_search AI-powered web search via Groq (browse or compound)
groq_analyze Visit and analyze a URL via Groq Compound

Knowledge Bases

Tool Description
search_wikipedia Search Wikipedia and return full article text
search_arxiv Search arXiv for academic papers

Developer Tooling

Tool Description
get_package_info Look up a package from npm, PyPI, crates.io, or Go
search_packages Search packages by keyword across a registry
analyze_error Parse error messages and search Stack Overflow for solutions
compare_technologies Compare two technologies side-by-side with GitHub and registry data

Skills

This plugin bundles two skills:

  • research (/research) — Deep research across multiple sources with breadth-first, depth-first methodology
  • debug (/debug) — Debug errors, test failures, and runtime exceptions

Configuration

Variable Required Description
GROQ_API_KEY No For groq_search and groq_analyze tools
EXA_API_KEY No For Exa AI search (free tier: 20K req/month)
GITHUB_TOKEN No For higher GitHub API rate limits
AUTH_TOKEN No For X/Twitter search
CT0 No For X/Twitter search

The AUTH_TOKEN and CT0 cookies can be extracted from your browser after logging in to x.com. These are session cookies that expire periodically and need to be refreshed.


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