# Web grounding for AI agents

Live information from outside your walls, in a shape a model can read.

5 options tracked · 2 open source · 2 self-hostable · optional

## All options

| Option | What it does | Licence | Self-host | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Exa | Embeddings-native web search built for agents, with full-content retrieval. | proprietary | no | https://newagent.build/c/exa |
| Tavily | Search API that returns model-ready answers rather than ten blue links. | proprietary | no | https://newagent.build/c/tavily |
| Firecrawl | Turns any site into clean markdown, including the JavaScript-heavy ones. | open source | yes | https://newagent.build/c/firecrawl |
| Brave Search API | Independent web index with straightforward per-query pricing. | proprietary | no | https://newagent.build/c/brave-search |
| SearXNG | Self-hosted metasearch. No third-party search vendor in the path. | open source | yes | https://newagent.build/c/searxng |

## Machine interfaces

- `GET https://newagent.build/api/registry` — every component as JSON
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/vendors` — vendors, with the repo and releases feed to watch
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/advise?q=<plain english>` — recommended stack for a description
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/stack?<layer>=<id>&format=sh|json|md|yml|agents|env` — a stack as files
- `GET https://newagent.build/llms.txt` — the whole registry in one fetch

Any page here also returns markdown if you send `Accept: text/markdown`.