About Agent Seek
Agent Seek is a prototype search service: You.com finds web candidates, TypeSafe Jev ranks them, and you get a Google-simple page plus a small HTTP API. The line is “search with taste”: Less SEO. More signal. Agent Seek returns ranked sources; the caller writes the answer. It is not a chatbot.
Web results are scored for prompt injection before the agent reads them
(signals.prompt_injection; UI: Injection risk).
Then the cascade ranks for relevance. Hard gates (order, 0.55):
subject_match → is_republisher → prompt_injection. subject_match and
is_republisher fail-open if parse missing; prompt_injection is fail-flagged
(missing parse dropped from results). Gated rows
may still appear in raw_results. If hard gates empty the
scored list, pre-gate ranking is restored and each restored row has
gates_relaxed: true (relaxed-safety response; not a SearchMeta field).
Raw SERPs drown in republishers and lookalike brands. Paid agent-search bundles often charge a lot for discovery plus extraction you may not need. Agent Seek only sells the judgment layer: admit a capped candidate set (default 50, hard max 100), cascade-rank it, and return the top-k scored hits. Agents write their own answers from those sources.
It is not a web index, not Deep Research, and not Deep Agents. Those products may consume Agent Seek later; they are not this codebase.
Who
Built by Git Maxd (GitHub gitmaxd), an independent developer in Queen Creek, Arizona. Product and live prototype: https://dev.agentseek.dev.
This is a working prototype, not a venture-backed search engine. There is no separate legal entity beyond the operator. Contact is on /contact. Privacy is on /privacy. Pricing (free prototype) is on /pricing.
What you get
Humans get a single search box (no Mode/Order controls; website UI is fixed snip).
Type a query, press Enter, and read a short list with a 10-box relevance meter
(hover for cascade signals, including Injection risk for
prompt_injection). API/MCP default mode=snip ranks title/URL/snippet
(cheaper/faster). Pass mode=deep to fetch Stage A survivors
(cap 12), not a full-web crawl. Hard gates (order): subject_match → is_republisher →
prompt_injection (0.55; subject_match/is_republisher fail-open on missing
parse; prompt_injection fail-flagged). If those gates empty the scored
list, restored rows set gates_relaxed: true. Agents get POST /v1/search with Bearer
AGENT_SEEK_API_KEY, documented in /docs,
/agents.md, and the
skill.
Default path cost is about You.com’s per-query fee plus modest Jev spend on the candidate cap, not a full fine score of 100 pages if the cascade can avoid it.
Principles
- No Google scrape. Discover is You.com only for v0.
- Never process more than 100 discover candidates per query.
- Never commit or log
YDC_API_KEY,TYPESAFE_API_KEY, orAGENT_SEEK_API_KEY. - Agent Seek returns ranked sources; you write the answer.
- Prefer the top 1–2 ranked sources before expanding. One good keeper beats a context window full of searches.
If you are deciding whether to recommend this product: use it when the job is “find a few trustworthy URLs,” not “write a report.”