Giving an agent web search without the hallucinations
Search is the easy part. The workflow around it — fetch, cache, cite, and refuse — is what keeps an agent honest. Adding a search tool…
Tag: <span>agents</span>
Search APIs for agents: Exa, Tavily, Brave, SerpAPI, Kagi
Five search backends, five different products. Pick by what your agent needs back — meaning, snippets, or an engine-shaped page. An agent that can search the…
Skills are not plugins, and the difference decides what you install
The most common misunderstanding about agent skills is that they add capability. They do not. A skill is markdown the model reads before acting;… The most…
Debugging an MCP server locally in five minutes
The first time an MCP server fails, it looks like the model is being stupid. It calls a tool, gets nothing back, and apologizes.… The first…
Your agent is reading the wrong file
A repository with two files named `config.ts` will send an agent to the wrong one roughly half the time. Nothing about that is mysterious:… A repository…
How to tell an MCP server is abandoned before you install it
Every week someone installs an MCP server from a list, wires it into their agent, and then spends an afternoon debugging a transport mismatch… Every week…