Accept-Encoding: gzip" header to received a compressed response. This would reduce the network traffic and required size for the response buffer. But, we'd still need a large internal buffer to inflate the response before parsing JSON. Next, most results from the Brave Web API have an 'extra_snippets' field which includes a summary of the result. This seems like useful additional context to provide to the agent. A web_search query for "Bitcoin price" now successfully returns the following response to the agent (tested by adding a debug log in the agent loop) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I (635063) agent: Tool web_search response: 1. Bitcoin price today, BTC to USD live price, marketcap and chart | CoinMarketCap https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/ The live Bitcoin price today is $64,871.55 USD with a 24-hour trading volume of $45,314,283,881 USD. We update our BTC to USD price in real-time. Bitcoin is down 3.74% in the last 24 hours. 2. Bitcoin price today, BTC to USD live price, marketcap and chart | CoinDesk https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is $63,508.01 today as of Feb 24, 2026, 12:15 am EST, with a 24-hour trading volume of $24.62B. 3. Bitcoin BTC (BTC-USD) Live Price, News, Chart & Price History - Yahoo Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD/ Bitcoin has a current supply of 19,993,606. The last known price of Bitcoin is 66,178.39249005 USD and is down -2.15 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 12564 active market(s) with $39,417,837,545.32 traded over the last 24 hours. 4. Bitcoin Price Chart (BTC/USD) | Bitcoin Value | bitFlyer USA https://bitflyer.com/en-us/bitcoin-chart Check out the current Bitcoin (BTC) price, market cap, historical volatility, and buy Bitcoin on bitFlyer today with as little as $1! 5. Bitcoin Price | BTC to USD Converter, Chart and News https://www.binance.com/en/price/bitcoin Live price of Bitcoin is $96,262.14 with a market cap of $1,908.19B USD. Discover current price, trading volume, chart history, and more.

Commits

Commits on Feb 24, 2026

Fix large responses that break web_search tool

Log a warning when web search response data is dropped

Commits on Feb 27, 2026

Reduce stack usage for web_search tool in direct mode

web_search: Increase header buffer for search_via_proxy()