Home › AI agent skills › Grok Search
BGrok Search
⚠ Reviewed, with warnings on October 26, 2026 Skill (SKILL.md)
Web and X search skill that queries Grok (xAI API) with cited sources, reads the pages found and keeps a 15-minute cache; Tavily, Firecrawl or DeepSeek act as fallbacks.
Security review
⚠ Reviewed, with warnings on October 26, 2026
Passive review of the public code, commit 9b2743a of October 21, 2026: 1 SKILL.md file(s), 54 files, 37 script(s). Nothing was run.
- What it can do: Runs Grok searches on the web and X, reads pages and returns a sourced result.
- Files: Cache and logs in ~/.cache/grok-search.
- Network: xAI or OpenRouter API; Tavily, Firecrawl, DeepSeek as fallbacks; the pages read.
- Credentials: Grok key (xAI or compatible); optional fallback keys.
- Red flags: none found with our checklist
Warnings
- Contains 37 scripts that run on your machine when the agent calls them.
- 1 dependency without a pinned version: an update to a third-party package can change behaviour.
- Each call can be billed: Grok searches and page reads.
Notes
- The agent reads web pages: their content can carry hidden instructions, so watch what it does next.
- Main documentation in Chinese, English version provided.
A new version can change everything: the review covers the commit above only. Our review method →
Install
git clone https://github.com/BlueOcean223/grok-search.git then npm install
Command copied from the official documentation. Read the code before you run it, and prefer a version pinned to a commit or a release.
Similar skills
AApify's official MCP server: your assistant runs Apify Store scrapers to extract data from websites and social networks.
- By: Apify
- Works in: MCP servers, Claude, OpenAI Codex, Cursor
- Cost: Free ($5 credit); Starter $19/mo
FSkill (SKILL.md), official 5 official Firecrawl workflows: SEO audit, lead generation, lead research, competitive intelligence and market research, from the web.
- By: Firecrawl
- Works in: Claude, OpenAI Codex, Cursor
- Cost: Free skills; Firecrawl has a free plan (1,000 credits)
Firecrawl's official MCP server: web search, scraping and crawling for your assistant (monitoring, content, SEO).
- By: Firecrawl
- Works in: MCP servers, Claude, OpenAI Codex, Cursor
- Cost: Free plan (1,000 credits); Standard $83/mo billed yearly
Official Anthropic plugin for Claude Cowork and Claude Code: 8 skills to draft content, plan a campaign, review brand voice, brief on a competitor, run an SEO audit, write an email sequence and prepare a performance report.
- By: Anthropic
- Works in: Claude
- Cost: Free (Apache-2.0 licence)
Official Anthropic sales plugin: 36 skills for prospect research, call prep, pipeline review, outreach drafts and competitive battlecards, with your CRM.
- By: Anthropic
- Works in: Claude
- Cost: Free (Apache-2.0 licence)
EExa's official MCP server, a search engine for agents: web, company and people search, page reading and deep research. Hosted (mcp.exa.ai) or local.
- By: Exa
- Works in: MCP servers, Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, Cursor
- Cost: Limited free tier; paid Exa API beyond it
Related pages
You publish a skill or an MCP server? Submit it for free. It is listed as "not reviewed" until we have read its code.
Submit a skill → 🎁 Get the pack: 20 AI prompts to win clients
Free and available right away. Then email tips to pick AI tools for your goal. One-click unsubscribe.