unique-search-proxy-core 2026.28.0

Shared Pydantic types for the Unique Search Proxy API

unique-search-proxy-core

Part of Unique Search Proxy · PyPI: unique-search-proxy-core

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1. What this package is

Core is the contract layer. It defines every shared type — deployment configs, HTTP request/response shapes, error codes, and LLM tool schemas — without importing FastAPI, httpx pools, or provider SDKs.

Install it anywhere you need to describe or validate proxy behaviour: the proxy server, the HTTP SDK, assistants-core tool manifests, deployment UIs.

Package	Question it answers
Core (this)	What can be configured and what does a valid request/response look like?
Client	How are provider calls executed at runtime?
SDK	How do callers reach the proxy over HTTP?

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2. Role in the system

Core sits at the centre of Path A (schema & config). It is imported by both the proxy pod and caller services; it never makes HTTP calls itself.

flowchart TB
    subgraph consumers["Consumers of core"]
        Client["unique_search_proxy_client"]
        SDK["unique_search_proxy_sdk"]
        AC["assistants-core / deployment UI"]
    end

    subgraph core["unique_search_proxy_core"]
        Contracts["Response & error models"]
        Config["*Config deployment models"]
        Project["Schema projection & merge"]
    end

    AC --> Config
    AC --> Project
    Client --> Contracts
    Client --> Config
    SDK --> Contracts
    Project -->|"flat request body"| SDK
    Project -->|"flat request body"| Client

System overview → ../README.md

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3. Key concepts

Core uses three different config patterns depending on provider kind. Only search engines use ExposableParam and the full projection pipeline.

3.1 Three provider patterns (search vs agent vs crawl)

Kind	Config → request	ExposableParam	LLM call schema	Config/invocation merge
Search engines	GoogleConfig → GoogleSearchRequest via projection.build_request_model	Yes	build_llm_call_model + call_schema.resolve_*	merge_config_and_invocation
Agent engines	BingAgentConfig → BingAgentSearchRequest via agent_engines/projection.build_agent_request_model	No (plain fields)	Not implemented in core	Not implemented in core
Crawlers	BasicConfig → BasicCrawlRequest via crawlers/projection.build_crawl_request_model	No	Not implemented in core	merge_crawler_config_and_invocation

flowchart TB
    subgraph search["Search engines only"]
        GC["GoogleConfig\n(ExposableParam knobs)"]
        Proj["projection.py\nbuild_request_model\nbuild_llm_call_model"]
        GSR["GoogleSearchRequest"]
        LLM["LLM call schema"]
        GC --> Proj
        Proj --> GSR
        Proj --> LLM
    end

    subgraph agent["Agent engines"]
        BC["BingAgentConfig\n(plain fields)"]
        AProj["agent_engines/projection.py\nbuild_agent_request_model"]
        BSR["BingAgentSearchRequest"]
        BC --> AProj
        AProj -->|"via model_derivation"| BSR
    end

    subgraph crawl["Crawlers"]
        BCrawl["BasicConfig\n(no urls)"]
        CProj["crawlers/projection.py\nbuild_crawl_request_model"]
        BCR["BasicCrawlRequest\n(urls injected)"]
        BCrawl --> CProj
        CProj -->|"via model_derivation"| BCR
    end

3.2 Search engines — three surfaces from one config

Search is the only kind where a single *Config fans out into three derived surfaces:

Surface	Audience	Example
Deployment config	Admin / deployment UI	{ "engine": "google", "gl": { "expose": true, "value": "de" }, … }
LLM call schema	Tool manifest shown to the model	{ "query", "gl" } — only fields where expose: true
HTTP request body	POST /v1/search wire format	{ "engine": "google", "query": "…", "gl": "de", "fetchSize": 10 }

projection.py and search_engines/params.py derive the latter two from the first. Agent and crawl use model_derivation.derive_request_model via per-kind projection modules to inject query or urls.

3.3 ExposableParam — search-engine only

Optional search parameters use ExposableParam[T]:

• value — admin default merged into every request (null = deactivated)
• expose — when true, the parameter appears on the LLM call schema

gl: ExposableParam[str | None] = ExposableParam(expose=False, value="de")  # admin-fixed
gl: ExposableParam[str | None] = ExposableParam(expose=True, value=None)   # LLM-overridable

No agent or crawler schema imports ExposableParam today.

3.4 merge_config_and_invocation — search-engine only

from unique_search_proxy_core.search_engines import merge_config_and_invocation

request = merge_config_and_invocation(google_config, {"query": "EU AI Act"})
# → validated GoogleSearchRequest ready for POST /v1/search

The proxy receives a flat body; it does not resolve deployment config over HTTP.

3.5 merge_crawler_config_and_invocation — crawler only

from unique_search_proxy_core.crawlers import merge_crawler_config_and_invocation

request = merge_crawler_config_and_invocation(basic_config, {"urls": ["https://example.com"]})
# → validated BasicCrawlRequest ready for POST /v1/crawl

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4. Architecture (modules)

flowchart TB
    subgraph core_pkg["unique_search_proxy_core"]
        Schema["schema.py"]
        Errors["errors.py"]
        MD["model_derivation/"]
        PP["param_policy/"]
        Proj["projection.py\n(search + LLM projection)"]
        AProj["agent_engines/projection.py"]
        CProj["crawlers/projection.py"]
        Prov["providers/schema.py"]
        SE["search_engines/"]
        AE["agent_engines/"]
        CR["crawlers/"]
    end

    PP --> Proj
    PP --> SE
    MD --> Proj
    MD --> AProj
    MD --> CProj
    Proj --> SE
    AProj --> AE
    CProj --> CR
    Prov --> SE
    Prov --> CR
    SE --> Schema
    AE --> Schema
    CR --> Schema
    Errors --> Schema

Module	Responsibility
schema.py	Shared API models: SearchResponse, AgentSearchResponse, CrawlResponse, WebSearchResult, ErrorResponse, SSE events
errors.py	ProxyError hierarchy and stable ProxyErrorCode enum
model_derivation/	Shared derive_request_model + field/annotation helpers used by all three provider kinds
param_policy/	ExposableParam — used by search engine config models only
projection.py	Search-only: build_request_model, build_llm_call_model, project_call_schema
agent_engines/projection.py	Agent-only: build_agent_request_model (injects query; excludes output_schema)
crawlers/projection.py	Crawler-only: build_crawl_request_model (injects urls)
providers/schema.py	JSON Schema + defaults for deployment UIs (provider_config_json_schema, …)
search_engines/	Config models, request union, merge_config_and_invocation, call-schema resolution
agent_engines/	Agent config/request models, output schema
crawlers/	*Config deployment models + derived *CrawlRequest HTTP bodies

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5. Provider contracts

Core registers the discriminator ids and config models. Runtime registration of service classes lives in the client.

Kind	IDs	Config model
Search engines	google, brave, perplexity	GoogleConfig, BraveConfig, PerplexityConfig
Agent engines	bing, vertexai	BingAgentConfig, VertexAIAgentConfig
Crawlers	Basic, Tavily, Jina, Firecrawl	BasicConfig, TavilyConfig, … → BasicCrawlRequest, …

Search engines share BaseSearchEngineConfig (fetch_size, timeout). Crawlers share BaseCrawlerConfig (timeout only — urls live on derived request models).

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6. Key APIs (by use case)

Deployment UI — JSON Schema for a provider

from unique_search_proxy_core.providers.schema import (
    provider_config_json_schema,
    provider_default_config,
)

schema = provider_config_json_schema("search_engine", "google")
defaults = provider_default_config("search_engine", "google")

Tool manifest — LLM call schema

from unique_search_proxy_core.search_engines.call_schema import resolve_search_call_schema

descriptor = resolve_search_call_schema("google", config=google_config, strict=False)
# descriptor.call_schema → JSON Schema for the LLM tool

Runtime — build flat request before HTTP call

from unique_search_proxy_core.search_engines import merge_config_and_invocation

body = merge_config_and_invocation(config, llm_invocation_dict)

Shared types and errors

from unique_search_proxy_core import (
    SearchResponse,
    ProxyError,
    EngineNotConfiguredError,
    WebSearchResult,
)

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7. Features summary

• Discriminated provider configs (engine, crawler Literal discriminators)
• Search-only: ExposableParam policy, three-surface projection, LLM call schema, merge_config_and_invocation
• Agent: config → request derivation via model_derivation + build_agent_request_model
• Crawl: *Config + build_crawl_request_model (injects urls); merge_crawler_config_and_invocation
• CamelCase JSON aliases on all models
• Zero server dependencies (import-linter enforced in the client package)

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8. Installation & development

cd unique_search_proxy_core
uv sync
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
uv run basedpyright

Consumers needing HTTP access should use unique-search-proxy-sdk rather than calling the proxy with raw httpx.

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License

Proprietary — Unique AG