agent_action: Prompt-lab work item started
agent_action: Pinned repository checkout verified
agent_action: I'll research the repository structure first to understand what it is and how it wo...
command: ls -la /home/user/worktrees/attempt-725c1fbd-6745-4ed4-b392-f1cf0b23376e-cap-0
agent_action: Read README.md
agent_action: Read requirements.txt
agent_action: Read .env
agent_action: Read app.py
agent_action: Read populate_database.py
command: find /home/user/worktrees/attempt-725c1fbd-6745-4ed4-b392-f1cf0b23376e-cap-0 -type f -name "*.py" | head -20
agent_action: Read llm/llm_factory.py
agent_action: Read llm/llm.py
agent_action: Read retrieval/rag_retriever.py
agent_action: Read embeddings/embeddings.py
agent_action: Read embeddings/openai_embeddings.py
agent_action: Read test_rag.py
command: ls -la /home/user/worktrees/attempt-725c1fbd-6745-4ed4-b392-f1cf0b23376e-cap-0/data
command: ls -la /home/user/worktrees/attempt-725c1fbd-6745-4ed4-b392-f1cf0b23376e-cap-0/templates
command: ls -la /home/user/worktrees/attempt-725c1fbd-6745-4ed4-b392-f1cf0b23376e-cap-0/static
command: git log --oneline -20
agent_action: Read templates/index.html
agent_action: Read templates/admin.html
agent_action: The repo is a Python/Flask LangChain RAG chatbot with OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama backe...
agent_action: I'll research the leading managed web-search/retrieval providers in parallel, consu...
url: https://docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-reference/endpoint/search
url: https://docs.exa.ai/reference/getting-started
search: best managed web search API for LLM RAG grounding 2026 Tavily Exa Perplexity Brave ...
agent_action: Let me consult Exa's actual docs (via the redirect) and the comparison/benchmark ar...
url: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/getting-started
url: https://websearchapi.ai/blog/compare-tavily-google-search-exa-perplexity
url: https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/tools/tavily_search/
agent_action: Let me confirm Tavily's LangChain integration package and free tier, since the repo...
search: langchain-tavily official package TavilySearch tool free tier 1000 credits per mont...
agent_action: I have enough to make a well-grounded recommendation. Here's my analysis. ## Recomm...
result: Selected unknown