Built-in Tools
Reference for every tool that ships with BotHound today.
Overview
BotHound ships with a small set of built-in tools. Each one is described below, along with when to reach for it. Tools are attached at the task level; see Tools Overview for the mechanics.
WebSearch
What it does. Searches the public web and returns relevant sources the task can read and reason over.
When to use it. Any task that needs fresh information from the internet: news, product launches, company research, industry reports, regulatory updates, competitor prices. If the question cannot be answered from the model’s training data alone, WebSearch is the answer.
Typical use cases.
- Daily or weekly news briefings on a topic you care about.
- Competitor monitoring: prices, launches, hiring, press.
- Research passes for a report or summary.
- Fact-checking and source gathering for a downstream writing task.
Tips.
- Put WebSearch only on the research tasks, not the writing task that comes after.
- In the prompt, be specific about the time window (“past 24 hours”, “past 7 days”) and the kind of sources you want.
SendEmail
What it does. Sends an email from buddy@bothound.ai to a recipient you specify, with a subject and an HTML body.
When to use it. Any task that should deliver a result to a human inbox. A daily briefing, a weekly report, a price-change alert, a competitor-news digest.
Typical use cases.
- Deliver the final output of a bot to yourself or a teammate.
- Alert on a condition: “email me if the competitor drops their price below X”.
- Send a daily or weekly digest on a schedule.
Tips.
- Put SendEmail on a dedicated final-stage task, not on a task that is also doing research or writing. Keeping it alone makes the delivery step predictable.
- Write the email body in the upstream writing task, then have the email task pass it through. Do not ask the email task to both compose and send.
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