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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 You'll get a confident answer that's weeks or months out of date.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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