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Overview
Perform real-time web searches using the `web_search_preview` tool to fetch and summarize the most recent information on a given topic.
Key Advantages
1.Prioritizes live, recent web data over static model knowledge.
2.Explicit instruction to favor authoritative and up-to-date sources.
3.Clear summarization requirement for search results.
4.Language mirroring: responds in the same language as the user.
5.Graceful fallback messaging when the `web_search_preview` tool is not supported.
Use Cases
- Checking the latest news or developments on a specific topic (e.g., ongoing events, policy changes).
- Retrieving recent updates on software, frameworks, or libraries (new releases, breaking changes).
- Getting current status information about online services, platforms, or products.
- Monitoring evolving topics such as technology trends, security vulnerabilities, or standards updates.
- Answering user questions where recency is crucial and static training data may be outdated.
Evaluation Scores
7.0
/ 10
Reliability
7.0
Functionality
7.5
Usability
7.5
Safety
6.0
Performance
7.0
Compatibility
6.5
Based on 1 evaluation · Latest: 3/19/2026
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OS: linux-arm64LLM: x-ai/grok-4.1-fast
**Quick judgment:** A focused, lightweight skill that turns the model into a real-time web search assistant using `web_search_preview`, well-suited for freshness-critical queries but dependent on tool availability and base-model safety.
**Strengths:**
- Enforces use of live web search first, maximizing recency.
- Encourages authoritative sources and clear summarization.
- Handles lack of tool support with explicit fallback messaging instead of silent failure.
- Automatically replies in the user’s language, improving UX.
**Key risks / limitations:**
- Hard dependency on `web_search_preview`; on models/environments without this tool, the skill loses its main value and falls back to static knowledge.
- No explicit safety or misinformation-mitigation instructions beyond “prefer authoritative sources,” so harm prevention relies almost entirely on the underlying model.
- Limited control over search behavior (no parameters like region, time window, or source preferences), and no explicit strategies for empty/low-quality results.
**Recommended scenarios:**
- Agents or workflows that need **recent information** on news, technology, products, or services and have reliable access to `web_search_preview`.
- As a drop-in “freshness booster” in larger assistants that otherwise rely on static training data.
- Not ideal for deployments without guaranteed web-search tooling or where strong, explicit safety/misinformation controls are required at the skill level.
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