Giving an agent web search without the hallucinations
Search & researchSearch is the easy part. The workflow around it — fetch, cache, cite, and refuse — is what keeps an agent honest. Adding a…
9 Nov 2026
Search APIs, answer engines, and how to give an agent retrieval it can cite.
Search is the easy part. The workflow around it — fetch, cache, cite, and refuse — is what keeps an agent honest. Adding a…
Five search backends, five different products. Pick by what your agent needs back — meaning, snippets, or an engine-shaped page. An agent that can…
Perplexity, You.com and Phind answer; Exa and Brave retrieve. Confusing the two is why an agent cites a summary it cannot check. Two different…