What’s your actual agentic web research stack? (fully local, no cloud APIs)
Summary
The author details a fully local, no-cloud-API web research stack for AI agents, using self-hosted SearXNG, a persistent cache, TLS-fingerprinted fetching, headless browser fallback, and a local reranker, inviting community discussion on similar setups.
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