How to Build a Competitive Intelligence Agent from Public Web Sources
Define comparable entities and fields, preserve public source evidence, and separate observed changes from business interpretations. Includes a tested collector and review rules.
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How to Find and Verify Research Papers with Scholar Search
Match paper identity, distinguish preprints from published versions, and preserve the passage behind each citation. Includes a BERT example and tested page collector.
How to Build a News Monitoring Agent with Search, Render, and Screenshots
Build a reviewable news monitoring workflow with source states, separate timestamps, correction handling, and optional screenshot evidence. Includes a tested collection probe.
Video Search for Research Agents: When the Surrounding Page Matters
Build a video research workflow that separates search candidates, source-page context, transcripts, and reviewed footage before an agent cites a claim.
How Research Agents Should Verify Image Sources
Match an image candidate to its source page, caption, and credit. Build a claim-scoped evidence record that keeps missing context and provenance questions visible.
How to Cache Web Access Without Serving Stale Evidence
Decide when cached web content is fresh enough for an answer, preserve original observations, and handle unknown age or failed refreshes without hiding them.
How to Keep Duplicate Sources Out of a Research Agent
Group repeated text without losing original reporting, corrections, or provenance. Use conservative URL keys, validated snapshots, and a reviewable source ledger.
Retries, Timeouts, and Partial Failures in Web Access Pipelines
Keep useful documents when individual reads fail. Classify errors, bound retries and timeouts, validate content, and preserve an auditable partial result.
Canonical URL vs Final URL: Which One Should an Agent Cite?
Preserve requested, final, and canonical URL evidence, verify the cited passage before replacing its address, and handle redirects and missing API identity fields explicitly.
