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Tools Reference

Every tool available in the Lantern Agent Builder, what it does, and what you can configure.

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AI

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Prompt LLM

Send a custom prompt to any AI model and get a generated response back. When to use it: Any time you need the AI to analyse, summarise, rewrite, classify, or generate text based on inputs you provide. Output: The AI’s text response.

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Web Research

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Get Sitemap

Fetches a list of all URLs from an XML sitemap file. When to use it: When you want to inventory all pages on a website before crawling or analysing them. Output: A list of URLs found in the sitemap.

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Get Pages from Sitemap

Like Get Sitemap but with filtering — retrieve and filter URLs from a sitemap based on patterns you specify. When to use it: When you only want URLs that match a certain path pattern (e.g. only blog posts). Output: A filtered list of URLs.

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Get Web Content

Crawls a web page and extracts its text content. When to use it: When you need to read what’s on a specific page — competitor analysis, reading source material, scraping data. Output: The extracted text content of the page.

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Perplexity Search

Search the web using Perplexity AI, which returns summarised answers with cited sources. When to use it: When you want to research a topic and get a synthesised answer — great for understanding what AI search engines currently know and how they answer questions. Output: An AI-generated answer with source citations.

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Google SERP Results

Fetches the current Google search results for a keyword. When to use it: To see which pages currently rank for a given query, or to understand the competitive landscape before writing content. Output: A list of ranking pages with their titles, URLs, and snippets.

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People Also Search For

Fetches the “People also search for” related queries from Google for a given keyword. When to use it: To discover related topics, sub-topics, and semantic variations of your target keyword — useful for building out content clusters. Output: A list of related search queries.

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SEO Research

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DataForSEO

Retrieves keyword search volume, competition level, and CPC data from Google Ads via the DataForSEO API. When to use it: When you want real search volume numbers before committing to a content topic.

Note: DataForSEO draws on Google Ads data. Very new or niche terms (e.g. emerging tech concepts) may return no data because Google Ads has not indexed enough searches for them yet. Try broadening the keyword in that case.

Output: A table of keyword ideas with search volume, competition score, competition level, and estimated CPC.

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Content Generation

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Get Title Suggestions

Generates a list of potential article titles for a given topic. When to use it: Early in a content workflow, before writing a brief or draft, to decide which angle to take. Output: A numbered list of title options.

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Content Brief

Creates a structured content brief for an article — covering target audience, key angles, suggested headings, and recommended sources. When to use it: Before writing a draft. A good brief dramatically improves the quality of the generated article. Output: A structured brief with headings, talking points, and guidance for the writer (or the Draft Article step).

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Draft Article

Writes a first draft of an article based on a brief you provide. When to use it: When you have a content brief (either from the Content Brief step or written manually) and want a full draft. Output: A complete article draft in Markdown.

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Generate Article

Produces a complete, polished article in a single step — no separate brief needed. When to use it: When speed matters more than maximum control, or as an end-of-pipeline step that receives rich context from multiple preceding steps. Output: A complete article in Markdown.

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Knowledge Base

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Search Knowledge Base

Searches your Lantern knowledge base for content related to a query. When to use it: When your agent needs to reference your own saved research, past articles, or brand guidelines before generating new content. Output: Relevant excerpts retrieved from your knowledge base.

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Upload to Knowledge Base

Saves content into your knowledge base so it can be retrieved by future agents. When to use it: At the end of a research pipeline — store everything the agent found so future agents can use it without re-running the research. Output: Confirmation that the content was saved.

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Integrations

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Get GA4 Data

Pulls sessions, pageviews, and AI referral metrics from your connected Google Analytics 4 property. When to use it: When building a reporting agent, or when you want to feed real performance data into a content strategy prompt. Output: A data object with traffic metrics by page and channel.

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Get GSC Rankings

Fetches keyword positions, impressions, clicks, and CTR from your connected Google Search Console property. When to use it: To find which keywords you’re ranking for (and where), identify quick-win opportunities, or feed ranking data into a content gap analysis. Output: A list of keywords with position, impressions, clicks, and CTR.

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Slack Notify

Sends a message to a Slack channel. When to use it: At the end of a workflow to notify your team that a run is complete, or to send a summary to a channel for review. Output: Confirmation that the message was sent.

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Sanity Write

Creates or updates a draft document in your Sanity Studio dataset. When to use it: As the final step in a content pipeline to push a generated article directly into your CMS as a draft ready for editorial review. Output: The Sanity document ID of the created/updated draft.

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Control Flow

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Wait for Approval

Pauses the workflow and sends an approval request via Slack or email. The workflow only continues once a human approves it. When to use it: Before publishing content or sending a customer-facing message. Keeps a human in the loop without requiring them to manually trigger the next step. Output: The review decision (Approved / Rejected) and any comment the reviewer left.