Hi HN, Codex and Claude are pretty good at (re)searching things on the web these days, but the open coding agents (OpenCode, pi coding agent and friends) don't have access to the labs' proprietary search APIs. I wasn't happy with this state of affairs, and wanted a truly open source version that was portable and harness independent.I'd previously implemented agentic web search using SearxNG for treechat.com with good results, so that was my first choice. The problem is that SearxNG expects to run as a standalone python service, which is a lot of overhead and infra to deal with just to give your agent reasonable web search functionality.So I built a standalone CLI that embeds SearxNG as a library and exposes its search tools as a CLI and over MCP without having to spin up any extra services. It also has built-in tools for retrieving and markdownifying arbitrary URLs, and is agent friendly with skills and agent onboarding info built directly into the CLI. Together with the search functio...
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