anakin-research

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anakin-research

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Use when answering a question from the web with Anakin rather than fetching a known URL — web search for relevant pages, multi-source deep research producing a structured answer, or checking what AI answer engines say about a brand or topic. Covers search, agentic_search, ai_visibility_search, ai_visibility_sources. Triggers on researching a topic, comparing options across sources, market or competitive intelligence, AI-SEO and brand visibility checks, finding sources for a claim, or gathering data that spans many sites.

Anakin: search, research, and AI visibility

Three tools with very different cost and latency profiles. Picking the wrong one either wastes minutes or returns something too shallow to use.

Need	Tool	Latency
Find URLs relevant to a query	search	immediate
A researched answer synthesized from many sources	agentic_search	1–5 min
What AI engines say about a topic or brand	ai_visibility_search	1–2 min

The third answers a different question from the other two. search and agentic_search ask what is true on the web. ai_visibility_search asks what do AI assistants tell people — which is a brand/AI-SEO question, not a factual one. Do not substitute one for the other.

search — find pages

Synchronous AI web search. Returns a results array of url, title, snippet, date. No polling.

• prompt — natural-language query.
• (default 5, max 20).