Best Search Skills for AI Agents

Search is one of the most fundamental capabilities an AI agent can have. Without it, your agent is limited to what it already knows. With the right search skills, it can find real-time information, research topics, and pull data from across the web.

agentskill.sh has an extensive collection of search skills covering web search, academic research, code search, and news monitoring. With 69,000+ skills across 20+ platforms, you'll find a search tool for every research workflow. Here are the best search skills available right now.

Multi-Engine Search

Multi-Search by OpenClaw

The multi-search skill is the most versatile search tool in the directory. It queries multiple search engines in parallel (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others), deduplicates results, and ranks them by relevance. Your agent gets broader coverage than any single engine provides. Great for research tasks where thoroughness matters more than speed.

Install it:

/learn @openclaw/multi-search

Smart Search by Majiayu000

The smart-search skill takes a different approach. Instead of querying all engines at once, it picks the best search provider based on the query type. Technical questions go to Stack Overflow, product searches to Google Shopping, academic queries to Google Scholar. It learns which sources work best for different kinds of questions.

/learn @majiayu000/smart-search

Google Search

Google Search by OpenClaw

The google-search skill provides direct access to Google's search results through the Serper API. It supports web search, image search, news search, and Google Shopping results. It handles pagination, date filtering, and location-specific results. The most straightforward way to give your agent Google search capabilities.

/learn @openclaw/google-search

Google Scholar Search by OpenClaw

For academic and scientific research, google-scholar searches Google Scholar for papers, citations, and academic profiles. It extracts paper titles, authors, abstracts, citation counts, and direct PDF links where available. Essential for literature reviews and technical research.

/learn @openclaw/google-scholar

Code Search

Code Search by OpenClaw

The code-search skill searches across GitHub, GitLab, and Stack Overflow for code examples, implementations, and solutions. It understands programming languages and can filter by language, repository stars, and recency. When your agent needs to find how others have solved a similar problem, this is the skill to use.

/learn @openclaw/code-search

GitHub Search by Majiayu000

For GitHub-specific searches, github-search goes deeper than general code search. It searches repositories, issues, pull requests, discussions, and users. It can find trending repos in a topic, locate open issues that match a description, or discover libraries for a specific use case.

/learn @majiayu000/github-search

News Monitoring

News Search by OpenClaw

The news-search skill aggregates results from Google News, Bing News, and specialized news APIs. It filters by topic, date range, and source credibility. Your agent can monitor breaking news, track industry developments, or compile daily briefings on topics you care about.

/learn @openclaw/news-search

News Monitor by Majiayu000

For ongoing news tracking, news-monitor goes beyond one-time searches. It maintains a list of tracked topics and checks for new coverage on a schedule. It can detect sentiment shifts, flag breaking stories, and summarize daily coverage. Useful for PR monitoring, competitive intelligence, and market research.

/learn @majiayu000/news-monitor

Specialized Search

Patent Search by OpenClaw

The patent-search skill searches the USPTO and Google Patents databases. It can find patents by keyword, inventor, assignee, or classification code. Useful for competitive analysis, prior art research, and understanding the IP landscape in a technology area.

/learn @openclaw/patent-search

Product Search by Majiayu000

For ecommerce and product research, product-search searches across Amazon, Google Shopping, and comparison sites. It extracts prices, ratings, reviews, and availability. Great for market research, price monitoring, or finding alternatives to a specific product.

/learn @majiayu000/product-search

Getting Started

All these skills install in seconds. Open your AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or any supported platform), type the /learn command, and you're set.

If you're new to agent skills, start with the /learn install guide to set up the command. Then browse the full collection of research and data skills on agentskill.sh to find more tools for your workflow.

Search skills pair naturally with other skill categories. Check out the best web crawling skills for AI agents to go deeper on the pages your agent finds, or the best Google tools skills for integrating search data with Google Sheets and Analytics.

New search skills are added to agentskill.sh every week. If you've built a search integration, submit it to make it available to thousands of AI agent users.