Groundling Search for DeepSeek

Groundling Search adds DeepSeek as a provider of the AI Client built into WordPress 7.0, under the name “DeepSeek (Groundling Search)”.

Any plugin that asks the AI Client for web search can run on DeepSeek models: when a request needs fresh facts, the model searches the web through the DeepSeek Search API, reads the results, and answers with them.

• Connect once in Settings > Connectors. WordPress stores the API key, not this plugin.
• Models are listed live from your DeepSeek account.
• Web search runs as a tool the model calls, up to 10 searches per request by default.
• Each answer reports how many billable searches it used, so the calling plugin can show the real cost.
• DeepSeek Flash models also read images; other DeepSeek models are text only.

It works alongside “AI Provider for DeepSeek”: the two register under different provider IDs and keep separate keys.

This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by DeepSeek.

External services

This plugin connects to the DeepSeek API at https://api.deepseek.com, which it needs to generate text and to search the web.

• When a plugin on your site sends a request to the AI Client on a DeepSeek model, this plugin sends the prompt, the system instruction and the generation settings to https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions.
• When that request needs web search, this plugin sends each search query written by the model to https://api.deepseek.com/v1/tools/search.
• WordPress lists the models of your account at https://api.deepseek.com/models when the connector is saved and whenever it checks which models are available (the list is cached, then refreshed).

Every request carries the API key you saved in Settings > Connectors. Nothing is sent before you save a key, and nothing is sent to any other host.

• DeepSeek terms of service: https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html
• DeepSeek privacy policy: https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html