unique-search-proxy-core 2026.32.0.dev1

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\n(request_model / exposed_params_model / merge)"]
    end

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

System overview → ../README.md

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3. Key concepts

The config class owns its entire parameter lifecycle. Every derived surface is a method on the deployment config — there are no standalone projection or resolver modules.

3.1 Config-owned API (search engines)

Admin JSON → GoogleConfig {expose, value}
  ├─ GoogleConfig.request_model()            → GoogleSearchRequest (HTTP body, query required)
  ├─ config.exposed_params_model()           → GoogleExposedParams (LLM knobs; tool inherits it)
  ├─ config.merge(llm_args, query=…)         → validated GoogleSearchRequest
  └─ GoogleConfig.provider_query_params(req) → upstream provider dict

Method	Kind	Returns
request_model() (classmethod, cached)	search / agent / crawl	SearchRequestBase (required query) or CrawlRequestBase (required urls) + config fields; ExposableParam knobs unwrapped to optional plain types
exposed_params_model() (instance)	search only	ExposedParams subclass with exactly the expose=True knobs (camelCase aliases, description-only schema), or None
merge(overrides, *, query) (instance)	search only	deployment defaults + LLM overrides + query → validated request_model() instance
provider_query_params(request) (classmethod)	search only	request serialized for the upstream provider, minus _provider_param_exclude_fields (Google adds search_engine_id)

Agent engines (BingAgentConfig, …) and crawlers (BasicConfig, …) only implement request_model(). Crawlers have no exposable params and no merge — a crawl request is simply the deployment config fields plus urls.

3.2 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-facing exposed-params model

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

Bare scalars are not coerced — deployment JSON must use the explicit {"expose": …, "value": …} shape.

3.3 ExposedParams — the LLM tool-schema contract

config.exposed_params_model() returns a plain Pydantic model class. Tool-parameter models graft the knobs on by ordinary inheritance — no field-def plumbing, no stamped attributes:

Exposed = config.exposed_params_model()          # GoogleExposedParams | None
class ToolParams(ToolParamsBase, Exposed): ...   # or create_model(__base__=(...))

ToolParams.model_json_schema()   # camelCase knobs, no title/default noise
Exposed.model_fields             # the exposed field names

The shared ExposedParams base owns the single JSON-schema concern: its model_json_schema strips Pydantic's auto-title and default noise, so admin defaults never leak into what the LLM sees.

3.4 merge — deployment defaults + LLM overrides

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

Deactivated knobs (value=None) are dropped, overrides win over admin defaults, engine always comes from the config. The proxy receives a flat body; it does not resolve deployment config over HTTP.

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4. Architecture (modules)

flowchart TB
    subgraph core_pkg["unique_search_proxy_core"]
        Schema["schema.py"]
        Errors["errors.py"]
        PP["param_policy/\nExposableParam · ExposedParams\nrequest bases · derive"]
        Prov["providers/schema.py"]
        SE["search_engines/"]
        AE["agent_engines/"]
        CR["crawlers/"]
    end

    PP --> SE
    PP --> AE
    PP --> 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
param_policy/exposable_param.py	ExposableParam value object, factory-default merge, type introspection, OpenAPI naming
param_policy/exposed_params.py	ExposedParams base for LLM-facing parameter models (schema noise stripping)
param_policy/request_base.py	SearchRequestBase / AgentRequestBase / CrawlRequestBase (required leading fields)
param_policy/annotations.py	Annotation unwrapping helpers (private, used by derive)
param_policy/derive.py	derive_request_model / derive_exposed_params_model factories called by the config base classes
providers/schema.py	JSON Schema + defaults for deployment UIs (provider_config_json_schema, …)
search_engines/	Config models with the config-owned API (request_model / exposed_params_model / merge / provider_query_params), request union
agent_engines/	Agent config/request models (request_model), output schema
crawlers/	*Config deployment models + derived *CrawlRequest bodies (request_model())

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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 — exposed LLM knobs

Exposed = google_config.exposed_params_model()   # GoogleExposedParams | None
class ToolParams(ToolParamsBase, Exposed): ...   # graft knobs by inheritance
ToolParams.model_json_schema()                   # camelCase, no title/default noise

Runtime — build flat request before HTTP call

request = google_config.merge(llm_invocation_dict, query="EU AI Act")
body = GoogleConfig.provider_query_params(request)  # upstream provider 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; config-owned request_model / exposed_params_model / merge / provider_query_params
• Agent: BingAgentConfig.request_model() (injects query; excludes output_schema)
• Crawl: BasicConfig.request_model() (injects urls); no exposable params / no merge
• 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