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Fetch a URL via HTTP/HTTPS and return the response body as text. Lightweight entrypoint replacement for `sub-agent` steps whose only job is a single GET/POST. Supports GET (default), POST/PUT/DELETE with a stdin-piped body, configurable timeout, and a max-bytes cap — no LLM agent loop, no custom-header injection (request goes out with urllib defaults). Use for simple data-fetch steps in meta-skill DAGs; for crawling, JS-rendered pages, or complex auth chains use sub-agent + scrapling instead.

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http-fetch (sub-skill)

Direct shell wrapper for a single HTTP request. Replaces sub-agent sub-Agent steps that just GET/POST a URL — order-of- magnitude faster (no LLM round-trip, no tool surface, no iteration loop).

Inputs (with:)

keyrequireddefaultnotes
urlyes—absolute http(s) URL
methodnoGETGET / POST / PUT / DELETE (case-insensitive)
bodyno''request body, piped via stdin (for POST/PUT); empty = no body
timeoutno30request timeout in seconds
max_bytesno2000000response body cap; larger payloads truncated + suffixed …

Output

  • Success: response body on stdout (UTF-8 decoded, truncated to max_bytes if larger; lossy decode replaces invalid bytes).
  • Non-2xx response: exit 1, stderr HTTP <code>: <reason> <body[:200]>; stdout still carries the body for callers that want to inspect.
  • Network / DNS / timeout failure: exit 2, stderr cause.

When NOT to use

  • Crawling multiple pages → use scrapling (via sub-agent).
  • JS-rendered pages → use sub-agent + browser tools.
  • OAuth dance / multi-step auth → use sub-agent.
  • Streaming responses → not supported (we buffer + return).

Fallback

If this skill is unavailable, callers should spawn sub-agent with a curl/requests task — same result, ~10× the latency and a non-deterministic tool loop.