Web search

Web search lets Kanzi AI Assistant look up current information on the live web — recent release notes, library version changes, current best practices — for questions that the curated knowledge base does not cover. Kanzi AI Assistant prefers the knowledge base for Kanzi-domain questions and falls back to web search for the long tail.

Web search is off by default and requires an API key from a search provider. When it is off or unconfigured, Kanzi AI Assistant does not use it.

Enabling web search

1. In Kanzi Studio, select AI Assistant > Settings.

2. Select the Web Search category.

3. Turn on Enable web search.

4. In Search API key, paste your search-provider API key. By default Kanzi AI Assistant uses the Tavily search API, so a Tavily key works out of the box. Get a key from your provider’s portal.

5. Optionally, set Search API URL to a different endpoint. Leave it blank to use the default Tavily endpoint.

6. Click Save.

Kanzi AI Assistant stores your search API key locally in %APPDATA%, encrypted with Windows DPAPI under your user account, exactly like your LLM provider key.

Using web search

Once enabled, Kanzi AI Assistant calls web search on its own when a request needs up-to-date, off-corpus information. You do not call it explicitly — ask your question, and Kanzi AI Assistant decides whether to consult the knowledge base, the web, or both.