Web Search allows your Agents to find information from the internet to answer questions with verified references.

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How Web Search Works

Web Search works in two steps:
  1. Search: Performs targeted web searches to find relevant pages
  2. Extract: Fetches and analyzes content from promising results

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Web Search Capabilities

  • Provides up to 10 citations for sources of information used to answer the prompt
  • Performs targeted searches using search engines for references with high relevance, but doesn’t crawl the internet or within a site
  • Extracts text content from web pages (up to 10K words per page), but cannot download files like PDFs or images
  • Works with current information and publicly accessible web content, but doesn’t access private or paywalled content

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Using Web Search Effectively

Web Search is available for Professional and Enterprise accounts. Step 1: Enable the Web Search Tool To enable Web Search, select “Web Search” from the tools menu. Keep in mind that only one tool can be used at a time. Step 2: Write Directed Prompts Craft your prompts to steer the Agent’s search for information by:
  • Asking for current information (e.g., “What are the latest developments at Kolena in 2025?” instead of “What’s Kolena doing?”)
  • Using time-sensitive language like “latest,” “in the past decade,” “breaking news,” or specific time periods.
  • Requesting verification and fact-checking (e.g., “Verify the current stock price of Company-Name and cite your sources.”)
  • Hinting at specific sources or types of sources (e.g., “Search for information on Zillow about property prices in NYC” or “Find recent news articles about Topic-Name”)
Step 3: Run your Prompt Once you execute your prompt, the Agent will decide if using the internet is necessary based on your prompt, and then automatically perform targeted searches to extract relevant information from web pages.