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You.com for AI agents

You.com is a search and research assistant, used by teams that want a cited, synthesized answer to a question rather than a list of links to click through. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.

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AI and modelsAPI keyMCP + RESTyou.com
AUDIT LOG · YOU.COMPOLICY: acme-support
09:41:07 · claude · u_8f2read
you_com.search_images
Search You.com Images (Beta)✓ allowed · 212ms
09:41:08 · claude · u_8f2read
you_com.get_answer
Get Citation-Backed Answer✓ allowed · 164ms
09:41:09 · claude · u_8f2write
you_com.create_research
Create You.com Research✓ approved · approved by user
EVERY YOU.COM CALL, ON THE RECORD
01 · USE CASES

What agents do in You.com.

01

Get a citation-backed answer

Ask a question and get a synthesized answer with sources cited.

02

Run a web search

Get ranked web results for a query, a read-only search.

03

Check account balance

Read remaining research credits before running a deep research task.

02 · ACTIONS

8 You.com actions, graded by risk.

Every You.com action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.

read

5

Look things up. Allowed by default.

  • you_com.get_answer
    Get Citation-Backed Answer
  • you_com.search_images
    Search You.com Images (Beta)
  • you_com.get_research_task
    Get You.com Research Task
  • you_com.get_account_balance
    Get Account Balance
  • you_com.fetch_contents
    Fetch Webpage Contents

write

3

Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.

  • you_com.create_research
    Create You.com Research
  • you_com.create_finance_research
    Create You.com Finance Research
  • you_com.you_search
    You.com Web Search

destructive

0

Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.

  • No destructive actions.
03 · HOW IT WORKS

You.com in three steps.

  1. 01Your users connect You.comThey add their You.com api key on Arc0 Connect, under your brand. It goes straight into the vault.
  2. 02You set the rulesReads run, and writes like “create You.com Research” can wait for the user to approve.
  3. 03Any agent can actYour agent calls You.com through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.
POLICY.TS
await arc0.policies.set('you_com', {
  read: 'allow',
  write: 'ask',        // create_research
  destructive: 'deny',  
})

# Claude Code: the same connection, one URL
$ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \
    https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2
04 · AUTH AND DATA

How You.com connects.

Users add their You.com api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.

The same You.com connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →

AUTH
API key
CREDENTIALS
Per-tenant encrypted vault
MODEL SEES
Results only, never credentials
AUDIT LOG
Every call, on every plan
05 · WORKS WITH

Use You.com from any agent.

Claude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Codex
VS Code
OpenAI Agents SDK
Claude Agent SDK
Vercel AI SDK
Mastra
LangGraph
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07 · FAQ

You.com and Arc0, answered.

Q01

Can I use You.com with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect You.com to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the You.com actions you allow.

Q02

How do users connect You.com?

Users add their You.com api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.

Q03

Which You.com actions can my agent take?

8 in total: 5 read, 3 write and 0 destructive, such as “create You.com Research”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.

Q04

Can I make my agent read-only in You.com?

Yes. Allow read actions and deny writes in the You.com policy. Your agent can still look things up, and any write it attempts is blocked and logged.

Q05

Can my own backend call You.com too?

Yes. The same You.com connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.

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Plug You.com into your agent.

Your users connect You.com once, under your brand. Your agent gets 8 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.

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