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Web Search gives an agent or gateway a single tool for querying the live web.

The tool

web_search — one tool, two arguments: Results come back as a list, each carrying a title, URL, content excerpt, and a relevance score.

Per-binding configuration

One setting, search_depth: Set it when you bind the capability to an agent or gateway.
There is no safe-search toggle, language setting, region setting, result-count setting, or separate news / image / academic mode. The tool schema is the two arguments above.

Limits

Cost

Metered per query, with a higher rate for advanced depth. See noorle.com/pricing.

Autonomy

Read tier — allowed at every autonomy level.

Working with it

  • Narrow queries beat broad ones. “PyTorch 2.x release notes” returns something useful; “Python” does not.
  • Use days when recency matters. It is the only recency control there is.
  • Break a compound question into several searches rather than one long one.
  • Pair with Code Runner when you need results parsed or aggregated, and with Browser when you need the full page rather than an excerpt.

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