You.com Research Routing

Use this skill to choose the right You.com research path for the user's goal: agent-led search with you-search and you-contents, or one-shot cited synthesis with the you-research MCP tool.

Prerequisites

The You.com MCP endpoint must be reachable from the host:

• Managed research (you-research): https://api.you.com/mcp/research with OAuth (preferred), YDC_API_KEY bearer auth, or an MPP/x402-aware MCP client.

MPP/x402-aware MCP clients may receive HTTP 402 payment challenges from You.com tools, then retry with payment headers. Let the host client handle external payment and retry; do not add wallet signing logic to this skill.

Managed research with the you-research MCP tool

Call the you-research MCP tool when the user wants a synthesized answer with citations in one step. It runs You.com's managed research pipeline and returns a concise answer with inline citations and source metadata, so the host does not orchestrate multi-step search itself.

For keyless payment with no API key and no manual signing, compose the You.com MCP server with the Coinbase Payments MCP server; see Coinbase Payments MCP path for setup and when to choose it.

If the you-research tool is unavailable or the client cannot tolerate its response time, fall back to the agent-led search pipeline in the you-web skill and say which path was used.