How does the @web context provider work?

[dabockster]

Issue Category

Suggestion for existing article

Affected Documentation Page URL

https://docs.continue.dev/customize/context-providers#web

Issue Description

I can't find a lot of info about how the @web context provider works in current docs. How does this search the web? What search engine does it use?

Expected Content

No response

[RomneyDa]

@dabockster you can see the code here https://github.com/continuedev/continue/blob/main/core/context/providers/WebContextProvider.ts

It hits our proxy endpoint which basically does a simple web search and returns top results.

[ritamariavermelho06]

@RomneyDa can we customize it? dont see a way to replace the proxy endpoint.

[alersrt]

Such undocumented features can lead to NDA violation. Based on documentation, there is no another contexts what would implicitly send requests outside local PC to specific endpoints... What we should pay attention on to avoid such scenarios?

However there's possibility to turn off this feature:

[bdougie]

Due to a recent search we suggest using built in tools or MCP for this - https://docs.continue.dev/reference/deprecated-context-providers