refactor: route captain custom tool requests through SafeFetch (#14620)

Captain custom tools previously used their own hand-rolled `Net::HTTP`
request code. This moves them onto `SafeFetch`, the same shared
HTTP-fetching helper already used by webhooks, uploads, avatar imports,
and the Captain page crawler. Behavior for normal tools is unchanged —
they just now share one consistent path for host resolution, timeouts,
response size limits, and redirect handling.

**What changed**
- `HttpTool#execute_http_request` now delegates to `SafeFetch.fetch`
instead of building `Net::HTTP` requests by hand. Auth headers, basic
auth, metadata headers, JSON content-type, and the 1 MB response cap all
map onto `SafeFetch` options.
- Removed ~80 lines of bespoke request/validation plumbing from
`HttpTool`.
- The custom tools `test` endpoint now reads the response body string
directly (the executor returns the body rather than a response object).

**How to test**
1. Enable `custom_tools` (or `captain_integration_v2`) for an account.
2. Create a Captain custom tool pointing at a public HTTPS endpoint
(e.g. a test API).
3. Use the **Test** button in the tool form — you should get a success
result.
4. Run the tool from a Captain conversation and confirm the response is
returned/templated as before.

**Gotchas**
- **Local dev:** `SafeFetch` blocks requests to private/loopback
addresses by default. If you're testing a custom tool against a service
on `localhost` or a private IP during development, set
`SAFE_FETCH_ALLOW_PRIVATE_NETWORK=true` or the request will be rejected.
(This matches how the rest of `SafeFetch` already behaves locally.)
- **Test endpoint status field:** on success the `test` response now
reports `status: 200` rather than the exact 2xx code (201/204/etc.),
because `SafeFetch` signals success-vs-failure rather than exposing the
raw response. The UI only checks the 2xx range, so this is invisible
there — but worth knowing if anything consumes the API directly.
- **Non-2xx responses** still surface as an error (same as before), now
via `SafeFetch::HttpError`.
This commit is contained in:
Shivam Mishra
2026-06-10 14:01:30 +05:30
committed by GitHub
parent 72a59e4795
commit 3dfb5061e1
2 changed files with 22 additions and 79 deletions
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ class Api::V1::Accounts::Captain::CustomToolsController < Api::V1::Accounts::Bas
def test
tool = account_custom_tools.new(custom_tool_params)
result = execute_test_request(tool)
render json: { status: result.code.to_i, body: result.body.to_s.truncate(500) }
body = execute_test_request(tool)
render json: { status: 200, body: body.to_s.truncate(500) }
rescue StandardError => e
render json: { error: e.message }, status: :unprocessable_content
end
+20 -77
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@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ class Captain::Tools::HttpTool < Agents::Tool
url = @custom_tool.build_request_url(params)
body = @custom_tool.build_request_body(params)
response = execute_http_request(url, body, tool_context)
@custom_tool.format_response(response.body)
response_body = execute_http_request(url, body, tool_context)
@custom_tool.format_response(response_body)
rescue StandardError => e
Rails.logger.error("HttpTool execution error for #{@custom_tool.slug}: #{e.class} - #{e.message}")
'An error occurred while executing the request'
@@ -24,89 +24,32 @@ class Captain::Tools::HttpTool < Agents::Tool
private
PRIVATE_IP_RANGES = [
IPAddr.new('127.0.0.0/8'), # IPv4 Loopback
IPAddr.new('10.0.0.0/8'), # IPv4 Private network
IPAddr.new('172.16.0.0/12'), # IPv4 Private network
IPAddr.new('192.168.0.0/16'), # IPv4 Private network
IPAddr.new('169.254.0.0/16'), # IPv4 Link-local
IPAddr.new('::1'), # IPv6 Loopback
IPAddr.new('fc00::/7'), # IPv6 Unique local addresses
IPAddr.new('fe80::/10') # IPv6 Link-local
].freeze
# Limit response size to prevent memory exhaustion and match LLM token limits
# 1MB of text ≈ 250K tokens, which exceeds most LLM context windows
MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE = 1.megabyte
# Route through SafeFetch so custom tool requests share the app's centralized HTTP
# fetching (resolution, timeouts, response size limits, and redirect handling).
def execute_http_request(url, body, tool_context)
uri = URI.parse(url)
json_body = body if @custom_tool.http_method == 'POST'
# Check if resolved IP is private
check_private_ip!(uri.host)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'
http.read_timeout = 30
http.open_timeout = 10
http.max_retries = 0 # Disable redirects
request = build_http_request(uri, body)
apply_authentication(request)
apply_metadata_headers(request, tool_context)
response = http.request(request)
raise "HTTP request failed with status #{response.code}" unless response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
validate_response!(response)
response
response_body = +''
SafeFetch.fetch(
url,
method: @custom_tool.http_method == 'POST' ? :post : :get,
body: json_body,
headers: request_headers(tool_context, json_body),
http_basic_authentication: @custom_tool.build_basic_auth_credentials,
max_bytes: MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE,
validate_content_type: false
) { |result| response_body = result.tempfile.read }
response_body
end
def check_private_ip!(hostname)
ip_address = IPAddr.new(Resolv.getaddress(hostname))
raise 'Request blocked: hostname resolves to private IP address' if PRIVATE_IP_RANGES.any? { |range| range.include?(ip_address) }
rescue Resolv::ResolvError, SocketError => e
raise "DNS resolution failed: #{e.message}"
end
def validate_response!(response)
content_length = response['content-length']&.to_i
if content_length && content_length > MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE
raise "Response size #{content_length} bytes exceeds maximum allowed #{MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE} bytes"
end
return unless response.body && response.body.bytesize > MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE
raise "Response body size #{response.body.bytesize} bytes exceeds maximum allowed #{MAX_RESPONSE_SIZE} bytes"
end
def build_http_request(uri, body)
if @custom_tool.http_method == 'POST'
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
if body
request.body = body
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
end
else
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
end
request
end
def apply_authentication(request)
def request_headers(tool_context, json_body)
headers = @custom_tool.build_auth_headers
headers.each { |key, value| request[key] = value }
credentials = @custom_tool.build_basic_auth_credentials
request.basic_auth(*credentials) if credentials
end
def apply_metadata_headers(request, tool_context)
state = tool_context&.state || {}
metadata_headers = @custom_tool.build_metadata_headers(state)
metadata_headers.each { |key, value| request[key] = value }
headers.merge!(@custom_tool.build_metadata_headers(tool_context&.state || {}))
headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json' if json_body.present?
headers
end
end