🔗Web Search
Boxxy Terminal features integrated real-time web search, allowing your AI agents to browse the internet to find documentation, troubleshoot errors, or gather up-to-date information directly from the terminal.
🔗Supported Search Engines
Currently, Boxxy supports Tavily as the primary search provider. Tavily is specifically optimized for LLMs, providing clean, search-engine-optimized content that helps agents generate more accurate responses.
🔗Setting Up Web Search
To enable web search capability:
- Get an API Key: Sign up at Tavily to get your free or pro API key.
- Configure in Boxxy:
- Open Boxxy =Preferences= (
Ctrl+,). - Navigate to the =APIs= tab on the left sidebar.
- Find the Search Engines section.
- Enter your key in the Tavily API Key field.
- Open Boxxy =Preferences= (
- Enable the Tool:
- Switch to the =Agents= tab in Preferences.
- Under Agent Toolbox, ensure Enable Web Search is toggled ON.
🔗Using Web Search
Web search is a powerful tool in your agent's toolbox. You can use it in two ways:
🔗1. Manual Activation (Per Pane)
You can toggle web search on or off for a specific terminal pane without changing your global settings.
- Open the =Claw Message Bar= (
Ctrl+/). - Click the Globe Icon to toggle web search for the current session.
🔗2. Automatic Search
If enabled, the agent will automatically decide to use the web whenever it needs information it doesn't have—for example, if you ask about a library released yesterday or a specific error code from a cloud provider.
Example Prompt: "Search the web for the latest breaking changes in React 19 and summarize them."
🔗Security & Control
- Master Switch: You can globally disable the web search capability in the =Agents= preferences tab.
- Approval Protocol: By default, Boxxy agents will describe their intent to search before performing the action, keeping you in control of what data is being sent to search providers.
- Privacy: Boxxy only sends the search query to the provider; your local terminal history and file contents are never shared with search engines unless explicitly requested.