Image search for agents, by text or reference image

Agents, workflows, and apps can now find real images on the web. Image search is a new built-in service: describe what you want, or hand it a reference image and get back images that look like it, ranked, each with the page it came from. A product mockup can start from the actual product, and a report can show the real thing rather than a generated guess. You pay in credits for whichever provider answers; see pricing. The developer docs cover the request format.

How it works

• Just ask in chat. Ask for a picture of a person, place, or product and the agent runs an image search, shown as an Image Search step, and can send you the image it picks.
• Search by words or by picture. Send a description of up to 500 characters, or a reference image as a public https link or as base64, up to 5 MB, and get up to 10 results.
• Providers in the order you choose. Text searches try Octen, then Parallel, and move on only when one fails. Admins can change the order in Settings under Built-in services, or turn the service off.
• Reference images go to Octen. It is the only provider here that can read one, so those searches skip the others whatever the order, and a search that Octen can't answer says so.
• Results an agent can use. Each one carries the image link, its source page so an agent can credit it or check the rights before publishing, and its size when the provider reports it.