Built-in web search vs wiring a search API into your agent
CoreSpeed's web tools return ranked sources and clean page text with no provider account, billed per request. A direct provider key gives more knobs.
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Four credentials, two kinds of principal. What each one reaches, where spend caps attach, and which credential an unattended agent should carry.
OAuth connector vs pasting an API key: which to use for each app
Most CoreSpeed connectors use OAuth. Some take a pasted provider key, a few take only that. How the index tells them apart, and how rotation and reauth differ.
One MCP server vs a config file per agent
When a per-client list of local MCP servers is enough, where it stops scaling, and what changes once a team points every client at one remote server.
Shared memory vs CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files
Instruction files hold the rules an agent follows, per repository or per machine and per client. Org-owned memory holds searchable facts that follow you across both. Use both.
Smart Approval vs client-side permission prompts
Claude Code's auto mode and Codex's Approve for me guard one client. Smart Approval gates the tools for every client. When each one is the right choice.