web_search: fetch a specific URL directly via Venice's scrape endpoint - #467
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The chat model kept fumbling when the user handed it a direct link: the search pipeline behind enable_web_search is built around queries, so a bare URL got searched FOR instead of read. This adds a second retrieval mode to web_search - pass `url` and the tool posts it to Venice's /augment/scrape endpoint and returns the page content as markdown, skipping the search sub-completion entirely. New veniceScrapeUrl helper in _shared/venice.ts follows the sibling wire-helpers' shape (fetch-injectable, VeniceError mapping, offline Deno tests). The tool caps returned content at 32k chars with a truncated flag so an unbounded page can't blow the chat context, and returns a single self-citation so the fetched page surfaces in the reply's sources panel through the existing tool-citation harvest. The wire schema drops the required list (edge-side validation is the real gate; requiring query would force a dummy query in url mode) and steers the model to pass exactly one of query or url.
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SYNOPSIS
Adds a
urlparam to the web_search tool: when provided, the page is fetched directly via Venice's /augment/scrape endpoint instead of the search pipeline.PURPOSE
Currently a direct link handed to the chat model goes through
enable_web_search, a pipeline built around queries - it searches for the URL instead of reading it, so the model fumbles exactly when the user names the page they want.DESCRIPTION
Today,
web_searchruns a one-shot sub-completion withenable_web_search: 'on'against the search model and returns{answer, citations};queryis required on the wire schema.This PR adds a url mode: a new
veniceScrapeUrlhelper in_shared/venice.ts(same fetch-injectable shape + VeniceError mapping as the sibling wire helpers, offline Deno tests) POSTs to/augment/scrapeand returns the page as markdown. The tool caps content at 32k chars with atruncatedflag, and returns a single self-citation so the fetched page rides the existing tool-citation harvest into the sources panel. The wire schema drops therequiredlist and the description steers the model to pass exactly one ofqueryorurl.Result: a pasted link is read, not searched for, and the raw-markdown path spends no sub-completion tokens on synthesis.
Notes:
required: []on the schema is intentional - edge-side validation is the real gate (repo convention), and requiringquerywould force a dummy query in url mode. Both provided: url wins, by design.Generated by Claude Code