Research current questions against live public sources and return a concise, cited answer.
The Web Research Agent Skill gives an agent a repeatable method for investigating current questions, checking live sources, separating evidence from inference, and returning citations. It is designed for work where freshness matters, while access to web tools remains controlled by the agent’s assigned permissions.
Product behaviour reviewed against VDF AI Cloud · 2026-09-04Match the Skill to the job, provide the required context, and decide what a useful output must contain before the agent begins.
The Skill supplies structured judgement and sequencing. VDF AI supplies the separately governed capabilities used during each step.
Clarify the decision, date sensitivity, geography, and evidence standard before searching.
Find primary and authoritative sources that address the question from more than one angle.
Open the strongest sources, check publication context, and distinguish facts from inference.
Answer the question directly, attach citations to supported claims, and surface unresolved gaps.
Web Research can call these capabilities only when they are assigned to the agent and authorised for the user. The Skill itself never expands access.
“Research the latest EU guidance on general-purpose AI models and give me a cited executive brief.”
A dated answer with links to primary guidance, a short interpretation, and clearly labelled open questions.
Web Research gives the agent a repeatable method. Tool permissions stay separate, and the capability can run inside a governed multi-agent Network.
Use these relationships as starting points, then narrow the agent’s access and workflow to the actual business context.
A reliable Agent Skill states its boundaries as clearly as its capabilities, especially when the workflow can influence decisions or external systems.
Yes, when the agent has the required Web Search and Web Crawler tools. The skill itself does not grant those tools; it supplies the research procedure used after access is configured.
The workflow is designed to attach sources to claims and to distinguish sourced facts from the agent’s interpretation. Reviewers can open the referenced pages before using the result.
Use Connected Knowledge Search for indexed internal systems. A network can combine both skills when a question needs public evidence and private organisational context.
Assign the Skill, grant only the tools the agent needs, and test the workflow with your own controlled context.