Let the agent use the web
The agent can look things up on the web when your question needs current public information, such as news, prices or a release that came out after the agent learned what it knows. It can also read a page you give it. You don’t need to switch anything on: ask, and the agent decides whether it needs the web.
Search the web
Section titled “Search the web”Ask about something current, for example What did our competitor announce this week?, and the agent searches the web. Its answer’s steps show a line Searched the web for “…” with the words it searched for. Select the line to see the sources it found, each with its title, its site and, where known, the date it was published. A source opens in a new tab, so you can check what the agent based its answer on. The agent names the sources it used in its answer too.
Have the agent read a page
Section titled “Have the agent read a page”Give the agent the address of a page, for example Summarise https://example.com/report, and it reads the page. Its answer’s steps show a line Read example.com. Select it to see the page’s title and its address, and the address the page was forwarded from, if it was. The agent reads text only, such as web pages and plain text, and only the beginning of a very long page.
Some pages show their content only in a browser. For those, the agent opens the page in the AgentCore Browser, a browser that runs for the agent in the cloud. Its answer’s steps then show a line Opened example.com in the Browser.
The agent only reads in the Browser. It never signs in anywhere, fills in forms or clicks through a site, and none of your sign-ins or saved passwords are there. A page that needs a sign-in to show its content is out of the agent’s reach.
Only public pages
Section titled “Only public pages”The agent reads only pages on the public internet. It refuses addresses inside your company’s network or inside the cloud the Strategy Agent runs in, also when a public page forwards it there. A refused page shows Refused on its line; select the line to see why.
Web content is information, not instructions
Section titled “Web content is information, not instructions”Pages and search results are written by others. The agent uses them as information and never follows instructions in them, for example a page that tells it to ignore what you asked. Check the sources of an answer that matters, as you would with any search.
What leaves the Strategy Agent
Section titled “What leaves the Strategy Agent”When the agent searches, the words it searches for go to Amazon’s web index, which runs in Ireland, within Amazon Web Services. When it reads a page or opens one in the Browser, it requests the page from that site’s server, wherever the site is, as any browser does: the site learns the page’s address, but not who you are. The agent is instructed not to put your company’s confidential information into its searches or into the addresses it requests, but it reaches the web with what you ask for: don’t ask it to search for or read anything you wouldn’t send to the web yourself. See Data residency.