web_search

Search the web through configured Serper, Brave, or keyless DuckDuckGo. Results are snippets, not inspected page evidence. Open relevant pages with fetch_url before relying on their contents. Provider failures are distinct from an empty search.

User guide / All capabilities

Contract

Effect: read. Evidence role: discovery_only.

Search public web.

Parameters

This is the current provider-facing JSON Schema, generated from the runtime definition.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "count": {
      "type": "number"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ]
}

Execution requirements

The ordinary admission and tool execution checks apply.

Expected postconditions

Inspect the returned status, summary and data; do not infer success from a tool call alone.