Agent Web Search Setup
Fixes web search on an agent whose model backend can't run it: a relay/reseller...
Install
npx skills add daymade/claude-code-skills --skill agent-web-search-setup -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- daymade/claude-code-skills1.5k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Fixes web search on an agent whose model backend can't run it: a relay/reseller proxying Claude or Codex returns empty instead of failing. Use when web search returns nothing, a model insists a shipped product doesn't exist, someone wants to give an agent internet access, or the user is on a third-party base URL, relay, or 中转站. Diagnoses which built-in tools are dead, removes them, and installs a working replacement.
Agent Web Search Setup
A model backend that cannot search is not the same as a model that searched and found nothing, but from inside the conversation the two look identical. This skill turns the first into the second, on whichever agent is in front of you. It configures the agent's tools; it is not itself a search engine, so nothing here answers a query directly, the proof of done is the agent's own session calling a real tool.
What actually breaks
Anthropic's web_search and web_fetch are server tools: the API runs them
during the request and splices results into the same response. OpenAI's Responses
API web_search works the same way. The client only ever declares the tool.
A reseller that proxies to another cloud cannot execute those. Anthropic's own documentation states that web fetch is unavailable on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud; search was measured failing the same way on both. What comes back is not an error. It is an empty shell, so the model concludes the topic does not exist and says so with total confidence. That is the whole bug, and it is why users report their agent has "gotten stupid" rather than reporting a broken tool.
Three things follow, each of which cost real time to establish:
- Switching models does not help. One reseller was measured routing four model names to three different backends; none produced a working search.
web_fetchbreaks with it. Fixing only search moves the failure from "I found nothing" to "I found links but cannot open them."- Installing an alternative is not enough on its own. With the dead tool still on the menu, a model made 21 web-search calls and 0 calls to an installed alternative whose description said the built-in was broken. Built-in tools win head-to-head. The dead tool has to be removed, or nothing else you do matters.
1. Prove it, on this machine
Do not take the user's word for which tool is broken, and do not take yours.
