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Fixes #7650

Summary

Add BaizhiSearchTool, BaizhiScrapeTool, and BaizhiExtractTool for public web search, page reading, and field extraction through Baizhi Cloud's hosted Streamable HTTP MCP service. The typed tools map to websearch_search, web_scrape, and web_extract, use the existing MCP 1.28.1 dependency, and support CrewAI sync and async dispatch.

SDK logging is sanitized only in the current Baizhi call context, including parse-error tracebacks; unrelated SDK log records remain unchanged. Credentials come from the caller or BAIZHI_API_KEY, are excluded from serialization, and are outside agent arguments. Calls have a total deadline, propagate async cancellation, do not follow redirects or automatically retry tool calls, and handle structured/text results and MCP errors. The README discloses account, credit, data transfer, and hosted-backend boundaries.

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  • Tests added or updated for the changed behavior
  • Relevant tests and quality checks pass locally

70 tests passed: 59 new offline cases with real CrewAI BaseTool/CrewStructuredTool and MCP 1.28.1 using httpx.MockTransport, plus 11 existing tool-spec/MCP-adapter regression tests. Checks cover all three tools via four dispatch paths, defaults and wire arguments, error sanitization, missing/invalid credentials, excluded serialization, structured/text results, URL credential rejection without exposing rejected inputs in rendered diagnostics, bare-domain validation, success-result redaction, real SDK malformed-response log redaction, redirect refusal, invalid inputs, timeout, and cancellation. A separate process also passed public crewai_tools import and construction of all three tools while MCP imports were blocked, and verified clear installation guidance when called. Ruff checks/format and strict mypy for the new tool package passed; git diff --check passed.

MCP remains optional and loads only at call time. Both page tools restrict download to False to match this contribution's research scope, with schema and all four dispatch-path checks; this is a local scope restriction, not a limitation of the hosted API.

The subsequent documentation-only update adds concise docstrings to all 31 production/test functions and nested helpers in the new implementation and test module. An AST comparison after removing docstrings confirms the execution logic and test cases are identical to the 70-test validated commit; source Ruff/format and diff checks also pass.

The local test launcher redirects CrewAI's import-time credential storage to a disposable directory and blocks socket connections; tool/SDK dispatch is unchanged. No production tools/call, LLM end-to-end run, complete repository test suite, or full all-package mypy is claimed. The three input contracts were checked against a separate authorized live MCP discovery snapshot.

Additional context

Prepared and reviewed with AI assistance as part of the Baizhi Agent Toolkit integration effort. This contribution requires llm-generated. The contributor cannot apply repository labels (GitHub rejected AddLabelsToLabelable); please apply that label to this PR and #7650. The linked issue is open, but the label requirement is still pending maintainer action.

The service requires a user-owned Baizhi Cloud account/key and calls may incur charges. This PR adds MIT client integration code only; it does not contain or claim to open-source the hosted backend. No dependency or lockfile changes.

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The change adds Baizhi Cloud search, scrape, and extraction tools. It defines typed inputs, authenticated MCP execution, timeout and error handling, output redaction, public exports, documentation, and mocked protocol tests.

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Baizhi Agent Toolkit integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Input and credential contracts
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/baizhi_tools/baizhi_tools.py
Adds validation for search, scrape, and extraction inputs, public HTTP(S) URLs, domain filters, API keys, and timeouts.
MCP execution and result handling
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/baizhi_tools/baizhi_tools.py
Adds lazy MCP loading, authenticated Streamable HTTP calls with bounded deadlines, sanitized errors, redacted outputs, and asynchronous dispatch.
Concrete tools and public exports
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/baizhi_tools/baizhi_tools.py, lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/baizhi_tools/__init__.py, lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/__init__.py, lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/__init__.py, lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/baizhi_tools/README.md
Defines the three Baizhi tools, exposes them through package APIs, and documents optional MCP loading, download restrictions, and validation diagnostics.
Dispatch and protocol validation
lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_baizhi_tools.py
Tests native dispatch paths, download restrictions, embedded-credential handling, diagnostic redaction, and execution-time errors for the optional MCP dependency.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CrewAI as CrewAI caller
  participant BaizhiTool as BaizhiSearchTool
  participant MCP as Streamable HTTP MCP
  participant BaizhiCloud as Baizhi Cloud endpoint
  CrewAI->>BaizhiTool: Submit validated input
  BaizhiTool->>MCP: Open authenticated session
  MCP->>BaizhiCloud: Call websearch_search
  BaizhiCloud-->>MCP: Return structured or text content
  MCP-->>BaizhiTool: Return MCP result
  BaizhiTool-->>CrewAI: Return sanitized output
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding Baizhi Cloud research tools.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes all required sections, links issue #7650, explains the implementation, lists verification results, and provides relevant additional context.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The description references the related open issue with “Fixes #7650,” satisfying the repository requirement for a linked issue.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes align with the stated objectives. They add the Baizhi tools, exports, documentation, and tests without unrelated dependency or lockfile changes.
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In `@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/__init__.py`:
- Around line 13-17: Update the Baizhi tool export in crewai_tools.__init__ and
the related BaizhiExtractTool, BaizhiScrapeTool, and BaizhiSearchTool loading
path so importing crewai_tools does not require the optional mcp package.
Preserve the public exports while deferring or guarding MCP imports until tool
execution, following the existing MCPServerAdapter pattern.

In `@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/baizhi_tools/baizhi_tools.py`:
- Around line 124-127: Restrict the web_scrape download option in
baizhi_tools.py to Literal[False], or remove it, so ZIP downloads cannot be
requested; update README.md to state that scrape downloads are unavailable.
Apply the change at baizhi_tools.py lines 124-127 and document it at README.md
lines 48-49.
- Line 52: Update _Input.model_config to set hide_input_in_errors=True alongside
the existing ConfigDict options, preventing validation errors raised through
BaseTool._validate_kwargs from exposing credential-bearing URL inputs.

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[FEATURE] Baizhi Agent Toolkit search, scrape and extraction tools

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