Seek

🌐 SEEK — Web Exploration & Grounding Doctrine

This skill establishes the canonical workflow and enforcement policy for all web-exploration, search, and URL ingestion tasks across the arifOS Federation.

1. Taxonomy & Federation Mapping

To prevent semantic confusion, the SEEK framework is mapped across three distinct federation layers:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1. ROUTE-LEAST-POWER ESCALATION LADDER (Tier 1 to Tier 6)              │
│    SEEK operates strictly in TIER 5 (External API/Network).           │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 2. AUTONOMY TIERS (T1 to T3)                                           │
│    Web searches are T1 (Auto-Do) OBSERVE-class queries. However, if    │
│    search evidence feeds a SEAL-grade claim, it escalates to T3/F13.  │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 3. VERDICT TIERS (DRAFT to SEALED)                                     │
│    Unverified search results = DRAFT. Once hashed via SHA256 and     │
│    scanned for injection, it is promoted to SEALED.                    │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

2. Primary, Secondary, and Fallback Routing Rules

SEEK dispatches queries to exactly 7 primary/secondary surfaces based on the intent class, with 1 fallback path and a strict block list.

Truth Receipt Guard (warga): Any synthesized claim or finding from search must be passed through enforce_for_warga / claim_must_use_receipt before use in plans or seals. L4 inference by default. See truth-receipt-enforcer skill + GENESIS/020.

                         arif_route(intent)
                                 │
         ┌───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┐
         ▼                       ▼                       ▼
 ┌───────────────┐       ┌───────────────┐       ┌───────────────┐
 │    PRIMARY    │       │   SECONDARY   │       │   FALLBACK    │
 │ (3 Surfaces)  │       │ (4 Surfaces)  │       │  (1 Surface)  │
 └───────┬───────┘       └───────┬───────┘       └───────┬───────┘
         │                       │                       │
         ├─ Perplexity           ├─ Brave search         └─ curl (CLI)
         ├─ SearxNG              ├─ Chrome-devtools
         └─ Meyhem               ├─ forge_fetch(URL)
                                 └─ forge_fetch(meta)

Primary Surfaces (3 Surfaces - Core Synthesis & Discovery)

1. Perplexity AI (perplexity_perplexity_ask / reason):
   • When: Intent matches "what is X", comparative queries, or decision justifications.
   • APEX G: 0.391 (ask) / 0.443 (reason).
   • Behavior: Sonar Pro fast synthesis + chain-of-thought ranking.
2. SearxNG Search (aforge_forge_fetch mode=search):
   • When: Intent needs broad multi-engine results (Google CSE + DDG).
   • APEX G: 0.588.
   • Behavior: Raw list return; the only engine that successfully surfaced the arXiv 2507.21206 paper.
3. Meyhem Search (meyhem_search):
   • When: Intent matches academic, scientific, or paper-heavy keywords.
   • APEX G: 0.252.
   • Behavior: Exa-backed; outcome-ranked bias toward arXiv, ACL Anthology, and DOI.

Secondary Surfaces (4 Surfaces - Targeted Action & Ingestion)

4. Brave Search (aforge_forge_search):
   • When: Q (Quick Recall) of recent facts or specific URLs.
   • APEX G: 0.315.
   • Behavior: Raw Brave API snippets, fast, signed envelope.
5. Chrome-Devtools / Browser (chrome-devtools_navigate_page / forge_browser_*):
   • When: JS-rendered sites, screenshots, or form interaction.
   • APEX G: 0.072.
   • Behavior: Headless Chromium execution. High latency, zero synthesis.
6. Page Scraper (aforge_forge_fetch mode=readable / fetch_fetch_readable):
   • When: U (URL Ingestion) of raw articles.
   • APEX G: 0.460.
   • Behavior: Readability parser. Strips scripts/CSS, returns F12 injection-scanned markdown.
7. Data Extractor (forge_fetch_metadata / forge_fetch_links):
   • When: Extracting headers, keywords, or link arrays.
   • Behavior: Short schema responses, fast execution (<100ms).

Fallback Egress (1 Surface - Last Resort)

8. CLI curl / wget:
   • When: All API-backed tools fail or are rate-limited.
   • APEX G: 0.024.
   • Behavior: Sovereign raw outbound. Must use F1 backup before call and F11 log after.

Banned Surfaces (5 Surfaces - HARAM)

• ❌ aforge_forge_minimax_search: DEAD backend (network fetch failed).
• ❌ aforge_forge_probe_site (HTTP): stdio-only transport leak.
• ❌ aforge_forge_skillstore_read (HTTP): stdio-only transport leak.
• ❌ webfetch (DDG native): Blocks JS, returns empty redirect page.
• ❌ fetch_fetch_html on JS-rendered sites: returns empty container divs.

3. Enforcement Mechanisms (Anti-Doa Protocol)

To ensure this doctrine is enforced programmatically rather than advisory:

A. Policy Lock

The execution shell enforces allowed servers at the gateway level. All web tool calls must satisfy the security policy:

aforge_forge_policy(
  mode: "set",
  tool_name: "*search*",
  allowed_mcp_servers: ["aforge", "perplexity", "meyhem"]
);

B. Agent Card Binding

All AAA citizen agents must list the seek skill in their manifest cards (agent-card.json / agents.yaml) under the skills array. This binds the 3-step routing cadence to their system prompts automatically at load time.

C. Unified Entrance

Direct tool calls for web search are deprecated. All AAA agents must route through the arif_route(intent=...) interface to classify the target intent.