Web Search Tool

The Web Search Tool gives your agent access to a Search Engine, so it can pull in real-time, up-to-date information from across the internet.

Adding It to Your Agent

In Agent Studio, open Agent Tools, click Add Tool, and choose Web Search. Deploy to Test or Live and your agent can search from that point on.

Removing the card takes the capability away again—your agent falls back to what it already knows, and you can add the tool back at any time.

Real-Time Information

Because it can now search the web, your agent is no longer limited to what it was trained on. It can look up current, up-to-date information—recent events, latest facts, things that change day to day—and fold what it finds into its response.

When the Agent Uses It

You do not have to tell the agent to search. It decides on its own when a question calls for live information and reaches for the Web Search Tool automatically. Ask it something that depends on current knowledge and it will search, read, and answer.

What It Costs

Adding the tool is free. Each search your agent runs adds to the cost of the API call it was made in. Your agent decides how many searches a request needs, so one API call can include several. Searches are billed in credits, like the rest of the API call. See Pricing for how credits work.

If your agent does not need live information, leave the tool off. To search less often, tell your agent in its instructions when a search is worth it.