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Cloudflare AI Gateway adds web search for grounded agent responses

blog.cloudflare.com by Michelle Chen et al. 5 min read Editor score 7/10

Cloudflare is adding a Web Search API through AI Gateway with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup, giving agents a search step instead of relying on guessed URLs and direct fetches. Engineers building tool-using agents can assess search as a way to ground responses in live information and reduce failed fetches.

What
Cloudflare’s Web Search API brings web search into AI Gateway so agents can use live information.
How
Search providers return structured web snippets that applications can inject into model context; partners commit to crawler standards and source links.
Why it matters
Live search can give inference pipelines fresher context for recent events, changing APIs, and fast-evolving news.
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An agent sends a search through AI Gateway and receives web results in its context. Sketched from the article's own text.

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