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Laravel AI SDK's web tools break with some providers; custom fix offered

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

The Laravel AI SDK's WebSearch and WebFetch tools only work with certain providers like Anthropic and OpenAI, silently failing on Groq or DeepSeek. Even when available, they return unstructured data without citation tracking. Developer Steve McDougall's Tabstack package provides a provider-agnostic research tool that returns cited answers.

Meridian48 take
The SDK's promise of provider flexibility is undercut by web tool limitations, but the community workaround shows how to build robust agents.
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