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> Claude Code rarely searches the web while Codex almost always does I’m trying to understand why they are opposite. I think it is true, I find myself giving a
by hbarka 1mo ago
> Claude Code rarely searches the web while Codex almost always does
I’m trying to understand why they are opposite. I think it is true, I find myself giving a secondary prompt to Claude to “research this” and only then will it fetch. Codex is bang on fetching already.
- edoceo 1mo agoGemini CLI (at least mine) does web research all the time. I've noticed it hitting my own pages (I have to ask very specific things). I don't have any global or project rules to encourage that behavior.
- antonvs 29d agoThat’s a deliberate effort on Google’s part. Integrating AI and search is obviously pretty critical to their business.
- arcanemachiner 29d agoMust be system prompts and tool instructions guiding the agents differently.
- LunaSea 29d agoOpenAI is close to Microsoft so I assume that they have preferential and cheap access to the Bing search index. Claude is independent. Gemini should have Google search.
- 42piratas 29d agoMore likely the harness than the model or a search deal. In Claude Code, WebFetch prompts for permission per domain and WebSearch is a separately gated tool, so the cheapest path for the agent is almost always the files already in the repo. Codex has no equivalent friction in front of a fetch. Worth checking against your own permission settings before reading it as a model preference: allowlist a domain and the same agent will reach for it a lot more.