Halo Cli Search

Use when searching public content on a Halo site with Halo CLI, especially for keyword search, site URL based search, result limits, or search without authen...

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This instruction-only skill simply documents and invokes the halo CLI's search command; what it asks for (the halo binary) and what it does match its description.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description match the declared requirements: the skill only requires the 'halo' binary and describes using 'halo search' for public-site keyword searches. There are no unrelated env vars, binaries, or capabilities requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md only instructs running 'halo search' with flags (keyword, url, limit, json). It does not direct reading arbitrary files, accessing unrelated environment variables, or posting data to third-party endpoints. It does note that omitting --url will cause the CLI to resolve the site from the active profile (expected behavior).

Install Mechanism

No install spec or archives are provided (instruction-only), so nothing is written to disk by the skill itself. This is the lowest-risk install posture.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables or credentials. The only implicit credential-related behavior is standard CLI behavior: if --url is omitted, the CLI may use the active profile/configuration—this is expected and proportional to the feature.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill is user-invocable. It does not request persistent presence or modify other skills' configs. Autonomous invocation is permitted by platform default but not excessive here.

Assessment

This skill is an instruction-only wrapper for the halo CLI and appears coherent. Before installing, ensure the 'halo' binary on your system is the legitimate one you trust (installed from the official source). Be aware that if you omit --url the CLI will use your active halo profile/config, which could access non-public sites if that profile is authenticated—use --url to target public sites explicitly. Running commands will make network requests to the target site; if you need to avoid any use of local credentials, run the skill with an unauthenticated or isolation profile. Since there is no install, the skill itself won't write code to disk, but validate the halo CLI binary separately.

Use this skill for halo search.

This is the main Halo CLI workflow that can run without authenticated console access when --url is provided.

Command

halo search --help

Common Flows

Search with a direct public site URL:

halo search --keyword "halo" --url https://www.halo.run

Search with the active or selected profile:

halo search --keyword "release notes"
halo search --keyword "release notes" --profile production

Limit results and emit JSON:

halo search --keyword "plugin" --limit 5 --json

Rules

• --keyword is required.
• --limit must be a positive number.
• --url targets a public Halo site directly and avoids authenticated console access.
• If --url is omitted, Halo CLI resolves the base URL from the active or selected profile.
• Use --json when another tool needs to parse search results.

Related Skills

• Use halo-cli-auth if the task first needs a profile.
• Use halo-cli-content after search when the goal shifts to editing posts or pages.