Mikhail Shilkov 10/6/2025

Inside Claude Code's Web Tools: WebFetch vs WebSearch

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This article provides a deep technical dive into the internal workings of Claude Code's two web tools: WebFetch and WebSearch. It explains how WebFetch retrieves and processes content from a specific URL to answer a user's question, and how WebSearch finds credible sources for a query. The post details the step-by-step pipelines, including URL validation, domain safety checks, content fetching, HTML-to-Markdown conversion, and LLM summarization, aimed at agent builders and developers.

Inside Claude Code's Web Tools: WebFetch vs WebSearch

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