synthetic-search

90 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By jpcaparas/skills (GitHub) · coding · 57 stars · scanned at commit e1b479a

Searches the web through Synthetic's zero-data-retention /v2/search API using SYNTHETIC_API_KEY. Use to search with Synthetic, check its search quota, or debug api.synthetic.new results. Not for browser automation, crawling or other search providers.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 3 places.

skills/research/synthetic-search/SKILL.md, line 16node <skill-dir>/scripts/search.js --compact --save /tmp/synthetic-1.json "tokio select cancellation safety"
skills/research/synthetic-search/scripts/test_helper.py, line 97def run_helper(self, *args: str, api_key: str | None = FAKE_KEY) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess:
skills/research/synthetic-search/scripts/test_helper.py, line 102return subprocess.run(

Sends data to these websites: api.synthetic.new

The author does not mention this.

Found in 10 places.

skills/research/synthetic-search/evals/trigger-evals.json, line 3{"query": "Search the web with Synthetic for how to configure retries in httpx.", "should_trigger": true},
skills/research/synthetic-search/references/api.md, line 18curl -s https://api.synthetic.new/v2/search \
skills/research/synthetic-search/references/api.md, line 87curl -s https://api.synthetic.new/v2/quotas -H "Authorization: Bearer $SYNTHETIC_API_KEY" \

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skills/research/synthetic-search/references/patterns.md, line 8curl -s https://api.synthetic.new/v2/search \
skills/research/synthetic-search/references/patterns.md, line 20curl -s https://api.synthetic.new/v2/search \
skills/research/synthetic-search/references/patterns.md, line 28curl -s https://api.synthetic.new/v2/search \
skills/research/synthetic-search/scripts/probe_synthetic_search.py, line 25import urllib.request
skills/research/synthetic-search/scripts/probe_synthetic_search.py, line 45req = urllib.request.Request(f"{BASE_URL}{path}", data=payload, headers=headers, method=method)
skills/research/synthetic-search/scripts/probe_synthetic_search.py, line 47with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=60) as response:
skills/research/synthetic-search/scripts/search.js, line 172const response = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}${path}`, {

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'synthetic-search' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'synthetic-search' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named synthetic-search already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jpcaparas/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'e1b479afa6c172f6d5a6087b6e19d7c0580b8a4e' -- 'skills/research/synthetic-search' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/research/synthetic-search' ~/.agents/skills/'synthetic-search' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'synthetic-search' ~/.claude/skills/'synthetic-search' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-13	`e1b479a`	90
2026-11-07	`c95f32e`	95