Kickside Webscout

Web research tools for AI agents — Google Custom Search, page reading, and link extraction. Kickside-native web research provider, with admin-editable credentials instead of env-only configuration.

Trait

Add the web_researcher trait to any agent to grant search + read + link tools:

traits:
  - id: kickside.webscout.traits:web_researcher

Configuration

Credentials resolve from the admin-editable settings first (kickside.settings:settings contract), falling back to the matching kickside.webscout:<key> env var — so a deployment can supply keys via .env and migrate them into the Settings UI without downtime.

| Setting / env key | Purpose | |---|---| | google_search_api_key | Google Custom Search API key (secret) | | google_search_engine_id | Google Custom Search Engine ID (cx) | | user_agent | User agent for outbound web requests (has a built-in default) |