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Button to toggle native Web Search tools for OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic

Would be great to have a button similar to the “Thinking Mode” to toggle the use of server-side web search tools already available for all major LLM providers. See:

openai: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-web-search?api-mode=responses

gemini: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/google-search

anthropic: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/web-search-tool

Right now to use this feature we have to duplicate each model and add a custom body parameter. It’s much cleaner to toggle web search on demand than have every model duplicated.

Moreover, there are other providers which also offer server-side web search: xAI, Open Router, Groq and probably many others. Given how common web search has become, we could even have a couple of special input fields when adding a custom model to fill the name and value of the web search tool, and in that way be able to use the same toggle button.

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