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Summary

Adds AI/ML API Toolbox as an optional backend for web_fetch, returning page content as Markdown through search1api/crawl. Users can fetch pages using their existing AI/ML API credential and balance.

Enable it with:

export ZERO_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER=aimlapi

A key alone does not enable the backend. Unset or unrecognized values retain direct HTTP fetching.

What changed

  • Runs search1api/crawl through the fixed https://tools.aimlapi.com/v1/tools/run endpoint.
  • Performs Zero's URL and resolved-host checks before sending the target URL to the remote crawler, rejecting loopback, private and metadata targets.
  • Handles queued runs with polling, bounded by a 120-second overall timeout.
  • Retries run requests returning 429/502/503/504 up to three attempts, preserving the request body and idempotency key. Retry-After delays are capped at 10 seconds.
  • Reports failed runs, is_error results and missing content as errors. There is no fallback to a direct fetch.
  • Preserves the result envelope, adds a backend marker and respects max_bytes without splitting UTF-8 characters.
  • Rejects format: "raw" before starting a billed run because the crawler returns Markdown rather than the original HTTP response.
  • Redacts Toolbox output and errors before truncation.

Credentials and attribution

The service key is resolved on every call from the aimlapi provider profile and credential store, or from AIMLAPI_API_KEY when no profile exists. Proxy profiles and invalid single-token credentials prevent the request.

Requests carry X-AIMLAPI-Source: agent/zero and X-AIMLAPI-Partner-ID. The Toolbox destination is fixed and redirects are refused. Standard HTTP proxy environment settings apply.

Billing and impact

Every fetch requests max_cost_usd: 0.005 and a fresh idempotency key. Retries reuse that key; cost-limit refusals are not retried.

The full target URL, including its query string, is sent to the remote crawler, which may return cached content. Users explicitly opt into this behavior. No runtime dependencies are added.

Validation

Focused command (passed outside the execution sandbox so the existing local-proxy test could open its listener):

go test ./internal/aimlapi ./internal/config ./internal/tools -run 'AIMLAPI|WebFetch|Attribution' -count=1 -race
  • Go 1.26.10 on macOS arm64: formatting, go vet ./..., release build and smoke checks passed.
  • Focused integration tests passed with the race detector (command above).
  • Tested a clean local merge with upstream main at 7c55a09. No integration source changes were needed. The published branch remains at its original head; uploading the local merge was unavailable through the current Git credentials/API connection.
  • Full go test ./... completed with failures in agent, cli, config, sandbox, tools and tui; some runs also failed npmwrapper tests. These include path/permission assertions and subprocess timeouts in this environment. Four agent permission tests were reproduced unchanged on clean upstream 7c55a09. The full suite is not claimed green; remaining failures need CI or a clean development environment.
  • govulncheck on the MCP sibling: no vulnerabilities found. Advisory static analysis there reported four findings in existing upstream code in installtest, proxydial and web_fetch.go, outside the new integration code.
  • No paid live Toolbox calls, media generation or browser OAuth were exercised. Other platforms remain for CI.

Related work

One of three independently selectable AI/ML API integrations for Zero: Toolbox web search, Toolbox page fetching and an opt-in MCP server. Each branch includes the same shared attribution and service-key foundation. Remaining branches will be updated after the first PR lands.

Web-search sibling: #1185

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an optional AI/ML API-backed page-fetching option that returns Markdown and reports fetch status and available cost details. Direct fetching remains the default unless the provider is explicitly selected.
    • Added documentation covering provider selection, API key requirements, billing and cost limits, and fetch behavior.
  • Bug Fixes
    • AI/ML API fetches validate URLs, reject unsupported formats and redirects, and do not fall back to direct fetching when they fail.

…vices

Adds the pieces the Toolbox and MCP integrations share:

- internal/aimlapi: X-AIMLAPI-Source (agent/zero), the fixed Toolbox and
  MCP URLs, and an exact-hostname check (https, default port, no
  userinfo) for api/tools/mcp.aimlapi.com before the key or attribution
  headers are attached. The partner id still comes from ResolvePartnerID.
- internal/config: AIMLAPIServiceKey picks the key from the aimlapi
  profile (or AIMLAPI_API_KEY without one), reading the credential
  store, and withholds it when any aimlapi-keyed profile points at a
  proxy base URL or AIMLAPI_INFERENCE_URL is overridden. Keys that are
  not a single token are refused.
With ZERO_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER=aimlapi, web_fetch fetches the page as Markdown
through the Toolbox tool search1api/crawl instead of a direct GET. A key
alone never selects it; unset or unknown values keep the direct fetch.

- The URL checks (pre-permission and resolved host) run before the URL is
  sent, so loopback, private and metadata URLs never reach the crawler.
- The key is resolved on every call through LoadAIMLAPIServiceKey; a
  missing, proxied or invalid key is an error with no request and no
  fallback. A failed run (is_error, failed status, no content) is also an
  error.
- Requests go only to aimlapi.ToolboxBaseURL, checked with
  IsAttributedURL before the key and attribution headers are attached;
  redirects are refused. The client uses the default transport, so the
  proxy environment applies and the target-site SSRF pin does not.
- Every run carries max_cost_usd 0.005, wait_ms 30000 and a fresh
  idempotency key. 202 runs are polled (hint clamped to 250 ms..5 s,
  120 s overall). 429/502/503/504 are retried with the identical body,
  honouring Retry-After (capped at 10 s); max_cost_exceeded is not.
- Output keeps the result shape with a Backend line, respects max_bytes,
  refuses format raw, and scrubs the key and redacts all Toolbox text.
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Minor Recognize canonical custom AI/ML API profiles during service-key selection.

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Review comments at @internal/config/aimlapi_service_key.go:
- Around line 51-64: Update isAIMLAPIProfile so it recognizes profiles with the
canonical AI/ML API inference endpoint and the AIMLAPI_API_KEY environment name,
even when their catalog ID is custom. Preserve recognition of the existing AI/ML
API catalog ID and reuse the endpoint and environment-name checks already
established in the profile-selection code.

Walkthrough

Adds an opt-in AI/ML API Toolbox backend for web_fetch. The backend resolves and validates credentials, submits Markdown crawl requests, polls pending runs, and returns bounded results with metadata. Documentation describes provider selection and fetch behavior.

Changes

AI/ML API web fetch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Credential resolution and URL attribution
internal/config/aimlapi_service_key.go, internal/config/aimlapi_service_key_test.go, internal/aimlapi/attribution.go, internal/aimlapi/attribution_test.go
Adds service-key resolution from configured profiles, stored credentials, or the environment. Rejects proxy-associated credentials and invalid keys. Adds exact AI/ML API service URL checks and attribution headers, with tests for these behaviors.
Provider selection and Toolbox crawl flow
internal/tools/web_fetch.go, internal/tools/web_fetch_aimlapi.go, internal/tools/web_fetch_aimlapi_test.go, internal/tools/bash_tool_test.go, README.md, docs/HOW_ZERO_WORKS.md
Wires provider selection into web_fetch. Adds Toolbox crawl requests, retries, polling, redirect refusal, response redaction and truncation, and error handling. Tests cover provider selection and backend behavior. Documentation describes the opt-in setting and fetch constraints.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant web_fetch
  participant AIMLAPIServiceKey
  participant Toolbox
  Caller->>web_fetch: Submit fetch request
  web_fetch->>AIMLAPIServiceKey: Resolve service key
  AIMLAPIServiceKey-->>web_fetch: Return key or error
  web_fetch->>Toolbox: Submit crawl request
  Toolbox-->>web_fetch: Return run status
  web_fetch->>Toolbox: Poll pending run
  Toolbox-->>web_fetch: Return terminal result
  web_fetch-->>Caller: Return Markdown and metadata
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Possibly related PRs

  • Twigpine/zero#1185: Adds the same credential-resolution and URL-attribution identifiers for the web_search backend.
  • Twigpine/zero#1187: Adds the same credential-resolution and URL-attribution identifiers used by its MCP changes.

Suggested reviewers: vasanthdev2004

Merge Risk: Low · up to 41175

Custom profiles may need an environment-key workaround, and rate-limited runs may poll sooner than requested. These are bounded risks to the optional backend.

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Nitpick Fail clearly if the poll loop continues after a canceled sleep.

474-476: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Fail clearly if the poll loop continues after a canceled sleep.

The test cancels its context before Run. The harness transport ignores the request context, so the queued POST /run succeeds. The first poll sleep then returns context.Canceled. If the poll loop ignored that error, it would send poll GET requests, and the fake would keep returning queued runs. The test would hang until the test timeout instead of reporting a failure.

The change below cancels when the first poll sleep starts. It fails the test on any poll GET and returns a terminal run so the loop stops.

🧪 Suggested test change
 func TestWebFetchAIMLAPIStopsPollingWhenTheContextEnds(t *testing.T) {
 	h := newWebFetchAIMLAPIHarness(t, "aimlapi", func(_ int, request *http.Request) *http.Response {
+		if request.Method == http.MethodGet {
+			t.Errorf("poll GET sent after the poll sleep was canceled: %s", request.URL)
+			return toolboxJSON(request, http.StatusOK, `{"id":"run-1","status":"failed"}`)
+		}
 		return toolboxJSON(request, http.StatusAccepted, `{"id":"run-1","status":"queued"}`)
 	})
-	h.tool.aimlapi.sleep = sleepWebFetchContext
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	cancel()
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	h.tool.aimlapi.sleep = func(sleepCtx context.Context, delay time.Duration) error {
+		cancel()
+		return sleepWebFetchContext(sleepCtx, delay)
+	}
 
 	result := h.tool.Run(ctx, map[string]any{"url": "https://example.com/"})
 
 	if result.Status != StatusError || !strings.Contains(result.Output, "context canceled") {
 		t.Fatalf("expected a cancellation error, got %s: %s", result.Status, result.Output)
 	}
 }

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Update TestWebFetchAIMLAPIStopsPollingWhenTheContextEnds to cancel the context
when the first poll sleep begins, and fail the test if any poll GET is sent
after that cancellation; return a terminal response from the fake so the test
exits even on failure. Defer cancellation for cleanup and assert the Run result
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if webFetchAIMLAPIRetryable(response.StatusCode) {
discardWebFetchBody(response)
continue
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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Honor Retry-After on rate-limited poll responses.

A retryable poll response is discarded, and the loop sleeps for the run's poll hint. With a 250 ms hint, a 429 that includes Retry-After: 2 leads to the next poll about 250 ms later. The server asked for a 2-second wait, so the client polls about eight times faster than requested. If the service keeps returning 429, the loop continues at this cadence until the 120-second run deadline. It then returns the context error instead of the run result.

Parse Retry-After from retryable poll responses. It can be delay-seconds or an HTTP date. Use the larger of that value and the poll hint for the next sleep. Keep the wait in the existing context-aware sleep so that cancellation still applies.

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Review comment at @internal/tools/web_fetch_aimlapi.go around lines 281 - 284:
Update the retryable-response handling in the poll loop around
webFetchAIMLAPIRetryable to parse Retry-After as either delay-seconds or an HTTP
date, then use the larger of that delay and the existing poll hint for the next
sleep. Keep the wait in the existing context-aware sleep and preserve
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if !sameBaseURL(profile.BaseURL, aimlapi.CanonicalInferenceBaseURL) {
return "", ErrAIMLAPIProxyProfile
}
if store != nil && profile.APIKeyStored && strings.TrimSpace(profile.APIKey) == "" && strings.TrimSpace(profile.Name) != "" {
key, found, err := store.Get(strings.TrimSpace(profile.Name))
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("read AI/ML API credential store: %w", err)
}
if found {
profile.APIKey = key
}
}
return validAIMLAPIServiceKey(profile.APIKey)
}

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Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

sed -n '1,160p' internal/config/aimlapi_service_key.go
rg -n 'AIMLAPI_API_KEY|CatalogID|APIKeyEnv' internal/config | head -120

Repository: Twigpine/zero

Length of output: 17728


Script executed:

set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff for implicated files ---'
git diff --unified=30 d99f92b81a671f186cede81614c89b8e8a7f9451 41175b158f9897a83b3bd56a298be2ff903915f5 -- internal/config/aimlapi_service_key.go internal/config/aimlapi_service_key_test.go internal/webfetch internal/tools 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,520p'
printf '%s\n' '--- catalog declarations and AI/ML API descriptor ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'AIMLAPIID' -e 'aimlapi' -e 'custom-openai-compatible' internal/providercatalog internal/config | sed -n '1,240p'
printf '%s\n' '--- resolver profile construction and custom-provider rules ---'
sed -n '1010,1150p' internal/config/resolver.go
sed -n '430,575p' internal/config/resolver.go
printf '%s\n' '--- service-key tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*test.go' -e 'AIMLAPIServiceKey' -e 'LoadAIMLAPIServiceKey' -e 'AIMLAPI_API_KEY' internal/config internal | sed -n '1,240p'
printf '%s\n' '--- web-fetch binding and error handling ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'LoadAIMLAPIServiceKey' -e 'AIMLAPIServiceKey' -e 'ErrAIMLAPIKeyMissing' -e 'web_fetch' internal | sed -n '1,300p'

Repository: Twigpine/zero

Length of output: 42499


Script executed:

set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- AI/ML API catalog descriptor ---'
rg -n -C 12 -F --glob '*.go' -e 'AIMLAPIID' -e 'api.aimlapi.com' -e 'AIMLAPI_API_KEY' internal/providercatalog internal/config | sed -n '1,260p'
printf '%s\n' '--- provider profile types and normalization ---'
sed -n '1,90p' internal/config/types.go
sed -n '1000,1150p' internal/config/resolver.go
printf '%s\n' '--- custom provider contract references ---'
rg -n -C 5 -i --glob '!**/*_test.go' -e 'custom.openai' -e 'custom provider' -e 'custom.*compatible' -e 'apiKeyEnv' docs internal/config internal/cli | sed -n '1,320p'
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant resolver tests ---'
sed -n '220,420p' internal/config/resolver_test.go
sed -n '1500,1570p' internal/config/resolver_test.go
printf '%s\n' '--- complete AIMLAPI web-fetch backend path ---'
sed -n '1,190p' internal/tools/web_fetch_aimlapi.go
sed -n '190,360p' internal/tools/web_fetch_aimlapi.go
printf '%s\n' '--- provider selection and backend invocation ---'
rg -n -C 8 -F --glob '*.go' -e 'webFetchAIMLAPISelected' -e 'aimlapi.Run' -e 'tool.aimlapi' -e 'ZERO_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER' internal/tools | sed -n '1,280p'

Repository: Twigpine/zero

Length of output: 43293


Script executed:

set -u
printf '%s\n' '--- ProviderProfile and resolved config declarations ---'
nl -ba internal/config/types.go | sed -n '1,90p'
nl -ba internal/config/resolver.go | sed -n '1018,1145p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Credential resolution contract ---'
nl -ba internal/config/credentials.go | sed -n '175,255p'
nl -ba internal/config/credentials.go | sed -n '280,335p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Custom-profile tests and examples ---'
rg -n -C 12 -i --glob '*.go' --glob '*.md' -e 'custom-openai-compatible' -e 'custom provider' -e 'apiKeyEnv.*AIMLAPI_API_KEY' -e 'AIMLAPI_API_KEY.*apiKeyEnv' -e 'BaseURL:.*api.aimlapi.com' -e 'baseURL.*api.aimlapi.com' . | sed -n '1,420p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Exact web-fetch key path ---'
nl -ba internal/tools/web_fetch_aimlapi.go | sed -n '120,165p'
nl -ba internal/tools/web_fetch.go | sed -n '190,225p'

Repository: Twigpine/zero

Length of output: 42647


Recognize canonical custom AI/ML API profiles during service-key selection.

When ZERO_WEBFETCH_PROVIDER=aimlapi, AIMLAPIServiceKey ignores a supported custom profile because it requires the aimlapi catalog ID. The Toolbox path then skips the profile's inline or stored credential and reports a missing key, or uses a different process-environment key. Match the canonical endpoint and AIMLAPI_API_KEY environment name as an AI/ML API profile.

Suggested fix
 func isAIMLAPIProfile(profile ProviderProfile) bool {
-	return strings.EqualFold(providercatalog.NormalizeID(profile.CatalogID), providercatalog.AIMLAPIID)
+	if strings.EqualFold(providercatalog.NormalizeID(profile.CatalogID), providercatalog.AIMLAPIID) {
+		return true
+	}
+	return sameBaseURL(profile.BaseURL, aimlapi.CanonicalInferenceBaseURL) &&
+		strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(profile.APIKeyEnv), aimlapiKeyEnv)
 }
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Review comment at @internal/config/aimlapi_service_key.go around lines 51 - 64:
Update isAIMLAPIProfile so it recognizes profiles with the canonical AI/ML API
inference endpoint and the AIMLAPI_API_KEY environment name, even when their
catalog ID is custom. Preserve recognition of the existing AI/ML API catalog ID
and reuse the endpoint and environment-name checks already established in the
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