Web Browsing

Web Browsing Skill

Provides access to public web content via search and URL fetching.

Operations

Search

Query DuckDuckGo for relevant results. Use when you need to find sources, validate claims, or discover documentation.

Input: Natural-language query (be specific; avoid vague terms) Output: List of results with title, URL, and excerpt

Usage pattern:

SEARCH: <specific query with key terms>
→ Review results, select the most authoritative source
→ FETCH the URL if you need full content

Fetch

Retrieve the full text content of a URL. Use after a Search to read a specific page.

Input: Valid URL Output: Page content as plain text (HTML stripped)

Usage pattern:

FETCH: https://example.com/page
→ Extract the relevant section
→ Cite the source URL in your response

Reference Lookup

For well-known documentation (MDN, Bun docs, Ollama API), fetch directly without searching first.

When to Use This Skill

• You need current information not in your training data
• You need to verify a specific fact, version number, or specification
• You need to read external documentation before making a technical recommendation

Anti-Patterns

• Do not search for information you already know with high confidence
• Do not fetch URLs that require authentication — they will return login pages
• Do not use web search as a substitute for reasoning — it supplements, not replaces
• Do not make more than 3 search/fetch calls per task without reassessing necessity
• Do not store raw fetched content in memory — extract and summarize instead

Output Citation Format

When referencing web-sourced content:

Source: Page Title — retrieved {{DATE}}