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web-search-summary

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Search the web for a topic and produce a structured summary with key findings, sources, and actionable takeaways. Best for quick research briefs, competitive landscape scans, and topic overviews.

What it does

Produce a structured research brief from a web search query in a single pass.

The skill document

Web Search Summary

Produce a structured research brief from a web search query in a single pass.

When to Use

  • User asks for a summary of a topic found via web search
  • Need a quick research brief with cited sources
  • Competitive landscape, market scan, or technology overview
  • Any "what's the latest on X" or "summarize what's happening with Y"

When NOT to Use

  • Deep-dive research requiring multiple follow-up searches → use iterative search instead
  • Real-time monitoring → use cron + search instead
  • The user already provided the content → summarize directly, skip search

Steps

  1. Search — Call web_search with the user's query, count=10, freshness set appropriately.
  2. Fetch — For the top 3-5 most relevant results, call web_fetch with maxChars=3000 to get readable content.
  3. Synthesize — Produce a structured summary (see format below).

Output Format

## Summary
<2-3 sentence overview>

## Key Findings
- Finding 1 (with source)
- Finding 2 (with source)
- ...

## Notable
- Point worth flagging
- ...

## Sources
1.  — 
2.  —

Parameters

ParameterRequiredDefaultDescription
queryyes—Search query
freshnessno(none)day, week, month, year
countno10Number of search results (1-10)
maxCharsno3000Max chars per fetched page

Example

Input: "latest in AI coding agents 2026"

Output:

Summary

The AI coding agent space has matured significantly in 2026, with multi-agent orchestration and IDE-native experiences dominating...

Key Findings

  • Multi-agent workflows are now standard (Source: a16z report)
  • IDE-native integration has surpassed CLI-first tools (Source: Stack Overflow survey)
  • ...

Sources

  1. a16z — https://a16z.com/ai-coding-2026
  2. Stack Overflow — https://stackoverflow.com/survey-2026

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