webctl
Smart web search CLI for agents, backed by Jev. Saves a lot of tokens.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 140 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 226 launches in developer command-line tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a CLI tool that queries a search API (e.g., SearXNG, Tavily, Bing), retrieves web page contents, and filters or reranks text via an external decision model API before returning condensed tokens.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1476 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #87 of 1477 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- fatsearch · github · 2026-10-17 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Fast browser agent (using Jev) with deep reasoning as needed · hn · 2026-10-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- The CLI for browser agents · hn · 2026-06-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- A CLI to scrape, search, and interact with the web for AI agents · hn · 2026-03-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- jevgrep · github · 2026-09-20 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ask-jev-skill · github · 2026-09-17 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Agweb · hn · 2026-11-14 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- agentic-rl-forge · github · 2026-09-23 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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