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Skill Installation Guide

The iFlow Search Skill provides web search capabilities including web search, image search, and web content fetching. Once installed, you can invoke it directly using natural language.

Install Skill​

Option 1: Install via Claude Code​

Copy and paste the following prompt into Claude Code:

Please install the iFlow Search Skill: clone https://github.com/iflow-ai/iflow-skills and copy the skills/iflow-search directory to ~/.claude/skills/iflow-search-skill, then add WebFetch and WebSearch to permissions.deny in ~/.claude/settings.json

Option 2: Manual Installation​

1. Install Skill

git clone https://github.com/iflow-ai/iflow-skills.git /tmp/iflow-skills
cp -r /tmp/iflow-skills/skills/iflow-search ~/.claude/skills/iflow-search-skill
rm -rf /tmp/iflow-skills

2. Disable built-in search tools (Recommended)

Add the following to permissions.deny in ~/.claude/settings.json to avoid conflicts with built-in search:

{
  "permissions": {
    "deny": [
      "WebFetch",
      "WebSearch"
    ]
  }
}

Restart Claude Code after installation to start using it.

Set API Key​

Set the IFLOW_API_KEY environment variable before first use:

# Use ~/.bashrc for bash or ~/.zshrc for zsh
echo 'export IFLOW_API_KEY=your_api_key' >> ~/.zshrc  # or ~/.bashrc
source ~/.zshrc  # or source ~/.bashrc

You can obtain an API Key by registering at iFlow Open Platform.

Usage Examples​

After installation and API Key configuration, simply use natural language to invoke:

  • Search for the latest AI news
  • Find some cat pictures
  • Fetch the content of this page: https://example.com
  • Search for Python async programming and find a good tutorial to read