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ShipMarch 8, 2026·3 min read

Your AI Agent Is Flying Blind. Give It Real-Time Internet Access — Free.

AI models have a knowledge cutoff. Every question about recent events, live prices, breaking news, or the latest package version is one your agent gets wrong. agentic_web_search fixes that — self-hosted SearXNG, no API key, no per-search cost.

Your AI agent knows everything up to its training date — and nothing after. Ask it what happened yesterday, what a stock is trading at, who won the match, or what the latest CVE is for a package you use. You'll get a confident answer that's weeks or months out of date.

Stale data isn't a minor inconvenience. It's a fundamental capability gap. For any task that touches the real world — research, market analysis, competitive intelligence, news monitoring, live event tracking — your agent is flying blind.

Today we're shipping agentic_web_search — a free, self-hosted MCP tool that gives your agent real-time internet access. No API key. No per-search billing. Your queries never leave your infrastructure.

The cost of flying blind

Sentiment analysis on last quarter's data — missing the last 6 weeks of brand mentions
Competitive research that misses a major product launch from last month
Dependency audit that doesn't know about a CVE disclosed last week
News summary that stops before the story broke
Sports score lookup that returns the pre-match prediction instead of the result

What your agent can do with live web access

Once agentic_web_search is connected, your agent gains the ability to answer questions that actually matter today — not questions frozen in time.

News & Events

Breaking news on any topic
Live event updates — sports, earnings, elections
Policy changes and regulatory announcements

Market Intelligence

Real-time competitor pricing and product launches
Brand sentiment from current coverage
Latest analyst reports and market moves

Technical Research

Current CVEs for packages you depend on
Latest library versions and changelogs
Documentation published after training cutoff

Live Data

Cricket, football, F1 scores — any public result
Current weather, travel conditions
Trending topics and social buzz right now

Free. Private. Self-hosted.

Most AI web search solutions cost money — Bing Search API, Serper, Brave Search, Exa all charge per query or per month. At scale, this adds up fast. And every query goes through their servers.

agentic_web_search routes through SearXNG — a free, open-source metasearch engine you run yourself. It aggregates results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and dozens more in a single query. Your searches stay on your infrastructure. The cost is zero. The rate limit is yours to control.

$0

Cost per search

None

API key required

30+

Search engines

Get live search running in 2 minutes

SearXNG runs as a Docker container. Once it's up, the MCP tool connects to it automatically.

bash
# 1. Start SearXNG (one time)
git clone https://pypi.org/project/agentic-store-mcp/
cd agentic-store-mcp && docker compose up -d

# 2. Run the MCP server with web search enabled
SEARXNG_URL=http://localhost:8080 uvx --refresh agentic-store-mcp

Or add it permanently to your AI client config:

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agenticstore": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--refresh", "agentic-store-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SEARXNG_URL": "http://localhost:8080"
      }
    }
  }
}

Data is what drives agent performance

Model capabilities matter. Prompt engineering matters. But for real-world tasks, the quality of your agent's output is bounded by the freshness of its data. A brilliant model reasoning over six-month-old information will still give you a six-month-old answer.

agentic_web_search is the first AgenticData tool that lifts that ceiling. We're building more — structured data extraction, RSS monitoring, real-time feeds. The platform for giving agents access to live, structured, private data is what we're here to build.

Start now — it's free.

Self-hosted, open source, MIT licensed. Zero per-search cost. Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

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