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Give your agents built-in structured web research and extraction

omnigentAug 28, 20262 min read

If you build agents that need real information from the live web, you can now turn on two ready-made tools instead of wiring up your own scraping and search code. Add nimble_research and nimble_extract to an agent spec by name and your agent can run a cited research task or pull structured data straight off a page.

Getting good web data into an agent usually means gluing together a search API, a scraper, and your own parsing, then keeping all of it working.

nimble_research hands a task to a Nimble Web Search Agent. The agent plans the search itself and browses in a real browser, so JavaScript-rendered and interactive pages still resolve. It cross-checks what it finds across sources and returns an answer with per-claim citations and a confidence signal for each one. Pass an output_schema to get typed JSON instead of prose. Pass input_data and it enriches the records you give it instead of answering a question, which is what you want when the job is a few thousand records rather than one lookup. Each run also stores its sources and the retrieval paths that worked, so an agent that runs this kind of task repeatedly builds on earlier runs instead of starting cold.

nimble_extract runs one of your Nimble extract templates against the live web and returns the parsed result as structured JSON in a single call.

Both resolve inside the runner, so they work with any agent you run in Omnigent, not just one model family.

The agent chooses nimble_research, reads Intelligentsia's live product pages, and returns a cited, structured result with its confidence and the listings it ruled out.

Enable them under tools.builtins in your agent spec and pass your Nimble API key. nimble_research needs the optional nimble extra (pip install 'omnigent[nimble]'); nimble_extract names one of your account's extract templates.

tools:
  builtins:
    - name: nimble_research
      api_key: ${NIMBLE_API_KEY}
    - name: nimble_extract
      api_key: ${NIMBLE_API_KEY}
      template: my_template_name # one of your account's extract templates

For a quick lookup rather than a full research run, Nimble is also a web_search provider, and has been since that tool shipped. Set search_provider: nimble and results come back in seconds instead of the minutes a research run can take, with no extra to install.

See the built-in tools guide for how builtins are configured, and Nimble's Omnigent connector docs for the full config reference on all three capabilities, including where to get an API key.

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