Most agent searches fail not because the answer is missing but because the top results are content marketing. Pinning a search to the domains you trust — a vendor's docs, a regulator, a handful of publications — changes what comes back more than any prompt tuning will. Two tools also means a negligible standing context cost. One caution: passing the key as a URL parameter puts a credential into config files and shell history; prefer the header or OAuth where your client supports it.
Tavily's own endpoint. Their search is built for retrieval by models rather than for human browsing, which shows in the filtering.
- Tavily-search — live web search with filters, including restricting to specific domains
- Tavily-extract — intelligent extraction of the content from a page
An API key from their console, or OAuth. The key can go in the URL as a parameter, which is convenient and worth remembering when you paste that URL somewhere.
Paste a URL, then authorize — add the endpoint to your client, then approve the OAuth consent screen