Search the web

Let the agent search the web and use the hits in its answer. You need this when the answer requires current information beyond the model’s training data.

Prerequisites

• The pi-mistral-native package installed
• An API key configured (Set up your API key)

1. Ask for a search in plain language:

   Search the web for the latest Mistral model releases and summarize them.

   web_search runs the search and returns the hits (url, title, description, snippets) to the model.

2. Verify the sources — the answer cites the pages it used.

Premium search

Premium search quality is a parameter of the same tool: ask for a premium search and the model sets premium: true on the web_search call. Premium quality is pay-per-use — it costs extra per call, so opt in deliberately.

Zero hits is not an error

An executed search with no hits is an ordinary empty result. A skipped search (the backend decided not to search) is reported as retry-worthy — distinct from an empty result. The search model is knowledge.searchModel (default mistral-small-latest); a model that refuses the builtin connectors (mistral-large-4, error 3004) is reported with a fix hint.

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