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Playbook

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Serper Agent Guidance

Use Serper when you need live Google results fast and broad recall matters more than source-specific extraction. Prefer serper_google_search for:

• broad web research
• newsy or changing facts
• finding a company, person, or topic before deeper enrichment
• collecting candidate URLs to hand off to extraction tools

Prefer serper_google_maps_search for:

• local business discovery
• location-aware company lookups
• phone, address, rating, website, or CID retrieval

Practical guidance:

• Start with Serper before heavier browser or extraction workflows when you do not yet know the right destination URL.
• Treat Serper as a discovery and recall layer, then pass strong hits into structured tools like Firecrawl, Apify, or provider-specific enrichments.
• Use Maps search when the user cares about storefronts, service areas, offices, or other local entities.
• Expect live-search variability. If a result is important, validate it with the returned URL or a follow-up fetch.