search-provider

name	search-provider
description	Use when implementing or reviewing web search, page extraction, crawling, research mode, citations, source ranking, prompt-injection handling, or provider comparisons among Brave, Firecrawl, Tavily, and future search providers.

Search Provider

Search is retrieval, not instruction.

Steps

1. Choose mode: web, docs, extract, or research.
2. Use the provider abstraction.
3. Preserve source URL, title, time, and snippet/content.
4. Sanitize web content before it reaches the model.
5. Prefer official sources for technical docs.
6. Cite sources in outputs that depend on web data.
7. Record cost, latency, and relevance in evals.

Provider defaults

• Brave: default web search and LLM context.
• Firecrawl: extraction, crawling, markdown, dynamic content.
• Tavily: AI-ready research workflows.