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The Search category gives your agent access to fresh, real-time web results — the live information that a base language model can’t reach on its own. With ~33 tools spread across six independent search providers, you can pick the right index for your use case: a fast Google-backed result, a privacy-preserving independent index, a cited answer engine, or a neural semantic search. All of them are discovered and called through the same find_tools → describe_tool → execute_tool flow.

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Providers

ProviderBest for
TavilyAI-optimized search with semantic understanding; ideal for agent-native workflows
Brave SearchPrivacy-focused, independent index with no user tracking
PerplexityAnswer engine that returns verified, cited sources alongside results
SerperFast, reliable access to Google’s index at scale
ExaNeural and semantic search tuned for research and knowledge-retrieval workflows
ParallelHigh-throughput search designed for concurrent or batched agent queries

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Common operations

  • Web search — general-purpose retrieval across the open web
  • News search (getNewsSearch) — recent headlines and articles on a topic
  • Image search (getImageSearch) — find images matching a query
  • LLM context (getLlmContext) — results pre-formatted for language-model consumption
  • Local POIs and descriptions (getLocalPois, getLocalDescriptions) — nearby places and location-specific details

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Example

1

Discover

Call find_tools with a plain-language description of what you need. AgentKey ranks every matching tool and returns the top candidates.
find_tools("search the web for the latest Claude news")
2

Describe

Call describe_tool on the top result to see its required parameters, optional flags, and exact per-call credit cost.
describe_tool("Brave/getWebSearch")
3

Execute

Call execute_tool with the Provider/Operation name and the parameter object returned by describe_tool.
execute_tool("Brave/getWebSearch", { query: "Claude news" })

Discover → Describe → Execute

Learn the three-step calling pattern that works across every AgentKey tool.