Web Search Providers
Exa, Serper, Tavily, Brave, You.com, Linkup, and Vertex AI web search for Antfly agents
Retrieval agents and deep research can search the live web through a
web_search connection. Each connection names one provider.
| Provider | provider | Credential environment variable |
|---|---|---|
| Exa | exa | EXA_API_KEY |
| Serper | serper | SERPER_API_KEY |
| Tavily | tavily | TAVILY_API_KEY |
| Brave | brave | BRAVE_API_KEY |
| You.com | you | YOU_API_KEY |
| Linkup | linkup | LINKUP_API_KEY |
| Vertex AI | vertex | Google credentials; see Google |
Example
{
"connections": {
"agent-web": {
"display_name": "Agent web",
"kind": "web_search",
"provider": "exa",
"capabilities": ["web.search", "web.fetch", "agents.use"],
"web_search": {
"max_results": 10,
"safe_search": true,
"include_domains": ["docs.example.com"],
"api_key": "${secret:exa.api_key}"
}
}
}
}
include_domains limits results to the listed sites.