You.com Web Search & Research
Give Claude live access to the web. This plugin adds You.com search, full-page content extraction, and cited multi-source research to Claude, so answers about fast-moving libraries, APIs, tools, and markets come from current sources instead of stale training data. Every answer cites the pages it read.
What you can do
- Search the live web: find current information, news, pricing, and facts, then read the actual pages before answering.
- Pull web data into your work: extract clean Markdown, HTML, or metadata from any public URL, including docs pages, tables, and reports.
- Code with current docs: look up the latest library docs, API references, changelogs, breaking changes, package versions, and fixes for error messages while you build.
- Research with citations: compare frameworks, evaluate tools and vendors, or produce a deep-dive report synthesized from many sources.
- Research companies and markets: get stock prices, earnings, and company financials.
- Build with You.com: find the right You.com API, MCP server, or SDK path for your own app or agent.
Example prompts:
What changed in the latest Next.js release, and does it break my middleware?
Find the current docs for this error message and suggest a fix.
Compare the top three Python vector databases on pricing and features, with sources.
Read https://example.com/pricing and summarize the plan limits as a table.
Research NVIDIA's latest earnings and cite the numbers.
Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills
/plugin install you@you-com
Basic web search works without an account through the free MCP profile. For full search, content extraction, research, and finance, sign in with OAuth when prompted or set an API key from you.com/platform/api-keys.
What this plugin connects to
The plugin contains skills and remote MCP server configs only. It has no hooks and starts no local MCP servers or scripts. When a skill runs, Claude sends your search queries, the URLs you ask it to read, and research or finance questions to You.com's MCP servers:
https://api.you.com/mcp(search, contents, discovery;?profile=freefor keyless search)https://api.you.com/mcp/research(research)https://api.you.com/mcp/finance(finance)https://you.com/docs/_mcp/server(You.com docs search, used byyou-discover)
Requests are handled under the You.com privacy policy. Web pages and search results are treated as untrusted data, never as instructions.
Skills
Other agent platforms
The same skills are packaged for Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI, Kimi Code, Grok Build, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi, Hermes, and DeepSeek Harness.
Start Here
Install the shared skills with the universal Agent Skills installer:
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills
Then ask your agent to use the right skill:
Use you-web to find current docs and cite sources.
Use you-research to investigate this topic across multiple sources.
Use you-finance to research this company and cite market data.
Use you-discover to find the best way to integrate You.com MCP or SDKs into my agent.
Install one skill at a time if you only need a subset:
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-web
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-discover
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill you-finance
Install for Your Platform
The top-level plugin manifests reuse the shared skills/ directory when the host supports it. Packages under packages/ include host-specific metadata, copied skills, or runtime adapters where needed.
Configure You.com MCP servers
Core remote MCP endpoints:
For clients that use API-key headers:
export YDC_API_KEY="your-api-key"
{
"Authorization": "Bearer ${YDC_API_KEY}"
}
Get an API key at you.com/platform/api-keys.
Useful tool profiles:
Some clients use OAuth instead of a static API key. The skills are written to guide the agent through the best available auth path for the current host.
you-discover is the best starting point when your goal is to build with You.com rather than just search with it. Ask it questions like:
Use you-discover to find the best You.com integration path for a TypeScript coding agent.
Use you-discover to compare You.com MCP, Python SDK, and direct API options for my app.
Packages
See each package README for host-specific details.
Repository Layout
Development
Install dependencies with Bun, then run checks:
bun install
bun test
bun run check
Package-level checks:
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/opencode' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/openclaw' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/pi' test
bun run --filter '@youdotcom-oss/dsh-plugin' test
Validate shared skill metadata and structure:
bun run validate:skills
Safety Model
Web pages, search results, extracted content, catalog entries, and docs results are external data. The skills instruct agents to treat them as untrusted evidence, not as instructions.
Links
- API keys: you.com/platform/api-keys
- Docs: you.com/docs
- Issues: github.com/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/issues
- Support: [email protected]
License
MIT, see LICENSE.
Submit to the OpenAI plugin directory
See OpenAI marketplace submission for the dedicated web-search ZIP (portable Agent Plugins format), proposed review cases, and remaining publisher requirements. Publish runs attach it to the dated GitHub release; build locally with bun scripts/package-openai.ts. The existing multi-platform package retains all skills and MCP endpoints.
