Adaptive web research for AI coding agents — 91% of Deep Research quality at 5% cost
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# Webify Adaptive web research for AI coding agents. Search the web, build semantic graphs, get synthesized answers — at 5% the cost of deep research tools. A skill by [GrapeRoot](https://graperoot.dev) **Docs:** [中文](docs/README.zh-CN.md) | [日本語](docs/README.ja.md) | [한국어](docs/README.ko.md) | [Español](docs/README.es.md) | [हिन्दी](docs/README.hi.md) | [Français](docs/README.fr.md) | [Deutsch](docs/README.de.md) | [Português](docs/README.pt-BR.md) | [Русский](docs/README.ru.md) ## What it does | Tool | Purpose | Cost | |------|---------|------| | `web_find(query)` | Multi-source web search + synthesis | ~$0.003/query | | `web_lookup(url, query)` | Single-page graph retrieval | ~$0.0005/query | **web_find** searches DuckDuckGo, builds semantic graphs from multiple sources in parallel, extracts relevant content via BM25, and synthesizes with Haiku. It adapts depth based on query complexity — simple factual queries hit 3 sources, multi-dimensional research queries scale to 6+ sources with multi-aspect retrieval. **web_lookup** fetches a single page, builds a heading-hierarchy graph, and returns only the relevant nodes (~250-750 tokens instead of 5,000-50,000). ## Benchmarks Blind A/B evaluation against Claude's Deep Research on 15 unseen queries (5 tech, 5 non-tech, 5 mixed). Judge: Sonnet, scoring accuracy + completeness + specificity (1-5 each, max 15/query). | Metric | Webify | Deep Research | |--------|--------|--------------| | Quality score | **68/75** (90.7%) | 73/75 (97.3%) | | Cost per query | **~$0.003** | ~$0.05+ | | Latency | **30-90s** | 80-280s | | Cost efficiency | **18× better** | baseline | Webify achieves 91% of Deep Research quality at 5% of the cost. The gap is always on completeness/specificity, never accuracy — Webify finds correct information but Deep Research finds more of it. <details> <summary>Per-query breakdown (unseen validation set)</summary> | Query | Webify | Deep Research | Winner | |-------|--------|--------------|-----…
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