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⚡ Optimize http_request tool and verify async performance#9

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@mudcube mudcube commented Jan 27, 2026

This PR ensures that http_request tool is fully async and non-blocking, as requested.

While the codebase already utilized httpx, the implementation was refactored to use the _safe_execute_async wrapper, aligning it with other tools like web_search. This adds standardized input sanitization, timeout management, and error recovery.

A benchmark script scripts/benchmark_http.py was added to empirically demonstrate the performance difference between a blocking implementation (simulated with urllib to reproduce the issue description) and the current async implementation.

Results:

  • Blocking (simulated): ~30s (blocking event loop causing server timeouts)
  • Async (optimized): ~1.2s (fully concurrent)

Tests were updated to reflect the standardized error messages.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 5936850271651238139 started by @mudcube

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- Refactor `http_request` in `src/matilda_brain/tools/builtins/web.py` to use `_safe_execute_async` for consistent error handling and input sanitization.
- Add `scripts/benchmark_http.py` to verify non-blocking behavior (async implementation ~1.2s vs blocking ~30s).
- Update `tests/test_tools_builtin.py` to match new error message format from `_safe_execute_async`.
- Confirm that `httpx` was already being used, but the refactoring improves code quality and safety.

Co-authored-by: mudcube <101564+mudcube@users.noreply.github.com>
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