feat(web): web/search + web/fetch native — the persona can forage the web - #2467
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… like I do (score lever) Joel (2026-08-25): 'think of the stuff you use and make sure we have it.' I forage the web constantly — library APIs, error messages, docs — and on SWE/ terminal tasks that knowledge often isn't in the repo. But web/search and web/fetch were catalog-only, and a NATIVE-tool-call model (Ornith) can ONLY emit calls for tools in its offered specs (unlike a text model, it has no reach-by-name affordance). So her hands literally could not touch the web mid-task. Declaring native:true puts web foraging in her bounded per-turn surface — offered in full, budget-protected by describe_tool_tokens like every native tool. The backend already works keyless (duckduckgo) or with a BRAVE_API_KEY. Direct capability parity with the agent she's replacing. Battery: web:: + persona_tools + native surface + ratchets green (58 passed). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
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…eiling (regression the ratchet caught) The native-web change (#2467) grew the agentic surface 8623 → 9513 tokens, over the 8650 ceiling — the #333 ratchet doing its job ('careful not to regress', Joel). SHRUNK FIRST: trimmed both web DESCRIPTIONs to one line each (detail lives in the param docs + commands/help) → 9350. The rest (+727) is the irreducible param schemas of two real tools. Per the ratchet's own contract, re-pinned the ceiling 8650 → 9400 with the addition stated plainly. Not a new overflow: the surface already exceeded the 8192 tight-test window (the budget trims volatile context to fit, specs reserved up front) — this raises the reserved floor. Ornith serves at 166k where the ceiling is irrelevant; the tight-window LCD persona pays with less recall room, a conscious trade for web foraging. Battery: tool_surface + prompt_shaping + ratchets green (25 passed, EXIT=0). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
The name_and_description test pinned the OLD verbose DESCRIPTION (brave/ duckduckgo/no-API-key) — but the surface-ceiling fix deliberately moved that detail OUT of DESCRIPTION (which rides the token-budgeted native surface) INTO the adapter param doc. Test now asserts the concise contract: DESCRIPTION says what it does (search web) + points at web/fetch; the adapter/keyless guidance is asserted on the WebSearchParams schema, its new home. A premise change from the ceiling fix, stated as such — not a weakening. Battery: web::search + web::fetch + ratchet green (4 passed). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
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Capability parity: I use web lookup constantly on exactly this kind of task, but a native-call model couldn't reach catalog-only web verbs. native:true puts foraging in her per-turn surface, budget-protected. Keyless backend works out of the box.
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