The model-facing web tool suite — web_search and web_fetch — over the web capability seam (ctx.web). It owns model-facing concerns only: tool names, JSON schemas, snake_case argument names, prompt sections, the result-count bound, result formatting, HTML→markdown presentation, and presentCall. All web access goes through ctx.web; this package never imports a concrete provider. Neither tool exposes a model-facing timeout — each tool's cooperative tool-call budget is declared here via config (fetchTimeoutMs/searchTimeoutMs, attached as ToolDefinition.timeoutMs) and enforced by @deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy (a tools/execute wrapper); each tool just forwards exec.signal to the seam.

Each tool is registered independently; a product that wants only one disables the other via config ({ search: false } / { fetch: false }).

Model Experience

Context surface	What the model sees	Token effect
System prompt	Each enabled tool adds one short section: search guidance says to discover current sources and follow with fetch; fetch guidance says to retrieve a specific HTTP(S) URL and cite it.	Fixed guidance cost per request for each enabled tool.
Tool schemas	According to config, the model sees `web_search(query)`, `web_fetch(url)`, or both. Result-count and timeout budgets are deployment settings, not model arguments.	Fixed schema cost per request; disabling a tool removes its schema and guidance.
Tool-call history and results	Search returns an optional answer and bounded source entries; fetch returns status plus decoded text or markdown-shaped HTML, or a structured error. Queries and URLs remain in call history.	Data-dependent results are resent until compaction. Search sources are capped by `searchMaxResults`; fetch providers cap body size, and timeout policy can replace a late result with a short error.

Tools

Tool	Args	Behavior
`web_search`	`query` (string)	Discovery. Returns an optional answer plus source URLs. `max_results` is not model-facing — the tool sets the bound (the `searchMaxResults` config, default 8) and passes it to the seam.
`web_fetch`	`url` (string)	Retrieves a specific URL. HTML bodies are rendered to markdown-ish text; text bodies pass through. A non-2xx status is reported, not an error. The tool-call timeout is deployment policy (`dsh-timeout-policy`), not a model argument.

Config

Key	Default	Meaning
`search`	`true`	Register `web_search`.
`fetch`	`true`	Register `web_fetch`.
`searchMaxResults`	`8`	Upper bound on sources returned by one `web_search` call (the seam truncates a longer provider list and flags it).
`fetchTimeoutMs`	`30000`	Cooperative tool-call timeout budget (ms) for `web_fetch`.
`searchTimeoutMs`	`30000`	Cooperative tool-call timeout budget (ms) for `web_search`.

fetchTimeoutMs/searchTimeoutMs declare each tool's cooperative timeout budget (attached as ToolDefinition.timeoutMs), enforced by @deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout-policy; the model-facing schema exposes no timeout argument.

- id: tool-web
  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-web'

Stable registration

Tool registration follows product enablement, not backend availability. A tool stays visible even when its selected provider is missing, misconfigured, ambiguous, or temporarily unavailable; the seam resolves the provider at execution time and execution fails with a structured WebError (e.g. WEB_PROVIDER_UNAVAILABLE, WEB_PROVIDER_AMBIGUOUS), which ToolRegistry.execute() turns into an error tool result the model can read and hooks/UI can route on. This keeps the model schema stable without making plugin load order, credential state, or HMR timing part of the model-facing contract. To remove a web tool entirely, disable it here in config.

The tool never calls a provider's status() and never enumerates providers — its only execution path is ctx.web.search() / ctx.web.fetch(), and provider unavailability reaches it as the structured WebError codes selection throws at execution time. Provider selection stays entirely inside the seam, with one owner.