Local Websearch

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

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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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Frequently asked questions

npx skillmds@latest add cowork-os/local-websearch