Automated summary

Search the full-text index across all indexed sources for content.

Strengths

Fast search across all documents
Ability to scope search to a specific project or source
Word frequency analysis for building vocab lists

Limitations

Requires sources to be added and indexed beforehand
Reindex is global and cannot be scoped per source
Encrypted PDFs cannot be indexed

When to use it

When the user needs to find specific text in their project documents or analyze term frequency.

When not to use it

When the documents have not been indexed yet; a reindex should be run first.

Security analysis

Safe

Quality score90/100

The skill instructs use of a local search and indexing tool 'arcane' with no destructive actions, no exfiltration, and no obfuscation. Commands are standard and safe.

No concerns found

How this analysis is made

Examples

Basic search

Search for the term 'neural network' in my project.

Word frequency

What are the most common words in my documentation project?

Reindex and search

Reindex all sources and then search for 'algorithm'.

Skill: search

Name: search
Author: Skills Guide Bot

Search the full-text index for content across all indexed sources.

When to use

User asks to "search", "find", "look up" text in their documents
User wants to know what books cover a topic
User wants word frequency counts across a project (freq)
Search returns stale results → run reindex first

Steps Claude must follow

Search:

# All projects:
arcane search "<query>"

# Scoped to a project:
arcane search "<query>" --project "<project>"

# Scoped to one source:
arcane search "<query>" --project "<project>" --source "<title>"

Show the user: result count, top hits (title, chapter, page).

If results look stale or empty:
```
arcane reindex
```
Then re-run the search. Reindex is safe to run at any time (idempotent).
Word frequency (when user wants "most common words", "term frequency", or to build a vocab list):
```
arcane freq "<query>" --project "<project>"
```
Output is word<TAB>count pairs, sorted descending.
Fill in template.md and present the summary.

Notes

arcane reindex reindexes all sources; there is no per-source flag.
Sources must be added via arcane add before they can be indexed.
Encrypted PDFs cannot be indexed until unlocked.

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