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Fixes #7370

Summary

crewai-tools has no source for macroeconomic releases or official FX reference rates. That data is spread across eighteen separate official publishers, each with its own format and release schedule, so an agent answering "what did US core inflation print at, and when is the next release" would otherwise need to know which publisher to call and how to parse it.

FXMacroDataTool wraps FXMacroData, which aggregates those publishers behind one contract for 18 currencies. A single dataset argument selects the surface: catalogue, latest, history, calendar, press_releases, fx_rate, rate_differential, cot, commodities, market_sessions, risk_sentiment.

Two things make it useful to an agent specifically:

  • dataset="latest" returns the newest print of every indicator for an economy in one request, rather than one request per series.
  • Every observation carries the instant it was published, so the agent can reason about what was knowable at a point in time rather than only about the present.

No API key is needed to try it — USD data is public. A key widens the history window and unlocks the other seventeen currencies plus FX, COT and commodities.

Two details worth flagging for review:

  • The key is sent as an X-API-Key header rather than a query parameter, so it does not land in proxy or server access logs. A 401/403 returns a message saying a key is required rather than surfacing as an outage, so the agent can fall back to USD instead of retrying blindly.
  • base_url is settable, so _request pins the scheme to http/https before opening. urlopen would otherwise honour file:// and read from the local filesystem.

Verification

  • Tests added or updated for the changed behavior

  • Relevant tests and quality checks pass locally

  • 14 unit tests in lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/fxmacrodata_tool_test.py, all passing — endpoint construction per dataset, header-not-query-param auth, no auth header without a key, unset optional params omitted, and the 401 / 500 / network / invalid-JSON branches kept distinct.

  • ruff check and ruff format --check clean under the repo-pinned ruff==0.15.1. Worth noting I first saw failures under a newer ruff and reproduced the same ones on the existing arxiv_paper_tool.py, which showed it was the tool version rather than the code.

  • All 11 datasets exercised against the live API, not only mocks: 7 return real data with no key, 4 more with a key, and the keyless COT call produced the intended "requires an API key" message rather than a raw error.

  • tool.specs.json regenerated with generate_tool_specs.py. The generator also rewrote an unrelated entry (Search a DOCX's content) because of a local pydantic version difference, so I rebuilt the file from the committed version with only this tool inserted — the diff adds one entry and changes no existing one.

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Disclosure: I work on FXMacroData, so treat me as the data source here rather than an impartial reviewer.

This PR was written with Claude Code; I have reviewed and verified it as described above.

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crewai-tools had no source for macroeconomic releases or official FX reference
rates. That data lives across eighteen separate official publishers, each with
its own format and schedule, so an agent answering "what did US core inflation
print at, and when is the next release" would otherwise need to know which
publisher to call and how to parse it.

FXMacroDataTool wraps FXMacroData, which aggregates those publishers behind one
contract for 18 currencies. A single dataset argument selects the surface:
catalogue, latest, history, calendar, press_releases, fx_rate,
rate_differential, cot, commodities, market_sessions and risk_sentiment.

dataset="latest" returns the newest print of every indicator for an economy in
one request rather than one request per series, and every observation carries
the instant it was published, so an agent can reason about what was knowable at
a point in time instead of only about the present.

USD works with no API key. A key widens the history window and unlocks the other
seventeen currencies plus FX, COT and commodities. The key is sent as a header
rather than a query parameter so it stays out of access logs, and a 401/403
returns a message saying a key is required rather than looking like an outage.

The base URL is settable, so the request path pins the scheme to http/https
before opening it; urlopen would otherwise honour file:// and read from the
local filesystem.

Includes 14 tests and a README following the existing tool layout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds FXMacroDataTool for macroeconomic, FX, COT, commodity, session, and sentiment datasets. The change validates request arguments, secures API requests, adds package exports and tool metadata, and includes documentation and tests.

Changes

FXMacroData tool

Layer / File(s) Summary
Tool contract and secure API handling
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/fxmacrodata_tool.py
Adds pattern validation and URL-segment encoding. Uses safe_get, restricts API-key requests to HTTPS, and handles refusal, HTTP, and transport errors.
Package exports and tool specification
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/__init__.py, lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/__init__.py, lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/__init__.py, lib/crewai-tools/tool.specs.json
Exports FXMacroDataTool and registers its datasets, parameters, environment variable, dependency, and validation patterns.
Documentation and behavioral tests
lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/README.md, lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/fxmacrodata_tool_test.py
Documents datasets, authentication, request restrictions, validation, and limits. Tests request construction, headers, validation, refusal, and error handling.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant FXMacroDataTool
  participant safe_get
  participant FXMacroDataAPI
  Client->>FXMacroDataTool: provide dataset and query arguments
  FXMacroDataTool->>safe_get: validate URL and send request
  safe_get->>FXMacroDataAPI: request selected dataset
  FXMacroDataAPI-->>safe_get: return response
  safe_get-->>FXMacroDataTool: return data or request error
  FXMacroDataTool-->>Client: return data or formatted error
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Actionable comments posted: 3

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lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/fxmacrodata_tool.py (2)

208-212: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Route the request through safe_get. base_url is settable, but the current path only checks the scheme. It does not block private IPs or unsafe redirect targets. Use safe_get(url, headers=headers, timeout=self.REQUEST_TIMEOUT), then adapt response reading and exception handling to requests.Response and requests.RequestException.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/fxmacrodata_tool.py`
around lines 208 - 212, Update the request flow in the fxmacrodata tool to use
safe_get with url, headers, and REQUEST_TIMEOUT instead of
urllib.request.urlopen. Adapt response body reading to the returned
requests.Response interface and replace urllib-specific exception handling with
requests.RequestException while preserving the existing behavior.

13-13: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Name the logger with __name__.

_request() emits logger.info() and logger.error() records for HTTP failures. logging.getLogger(__file__) creates a path-based logger, so configuration on logging.getLogger("crewai_tools") cannot reach these records. Use logging.getLogger(__name__) to preserve the package hierarchy.

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-logger = logging.getLogger(__file__)
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
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In `@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/fxmacrodata_tool.py`
at line 13, Update the logger initialization in the fxmacrodata tool to use
__name__ with logging.getLogger, preserving the package logger hierarchy used by
_request() records.
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Inline comments:
In
`@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/fxmacrodata_tool.py`:
- Around line 196-208: Update _request to require the URL scheme to be https
whenever an API key is configured, rejecting credentialed http requests before
opening the connection. For credentialed requests, use a redirect-disabled
opener so X-API-Key cannot be forwarded to another host or downgraded URL;
preserve the existing http allowance only for requests without credentials.
- Line 152: Update the URL construction in _resolve to percent-encode each
user-controlled path segment—currency, indicator, base, and quote—before
interpolation. Validate currency, base, and quote as three-letter currency codes
and indicator against the supported slug format, rejecting invalid values before
creating the request.

In `@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/README.md`:
- Around line 65-66: Update FXMacroDataTool base_url validation to reject
non-HTTPS URLs whenever an API key is configured, before sending any request;
preserve HTTP support when no key is present. Add a regression test covering the
configured-key and HTTP base_url case.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/fxmacrodata_tool/fxmacrodata_tool.py`:
- Around line 208-212: Update the request flow in the fxmacrodata tool to use
safe_get with url, headers, and REQUEST_TIMEOUT instead of
urllib.request.urlopen. Adapt response body reading to the returned
requests.Response interface and replace urllib-specific exception handling with
requests.RequestException while preserving the existing behavior.
- Line 13: Update the logger initialization in the fxmacrodata tool to use
__name__ with logging.getLogger, preserving the package logger hierarchy used by
_request() records.

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Route requests through the shared safe_get fetcher so a configurable
base_url cannot reach private or reserved addresses, and so the
X-API-Key header is dropped before any cross-origin redirect is
followed. Refuse to send the key at all over a non-HTTPS base_url while
keeping anonymous USD reads working over HTTP.

Constrain currency, base and quote to three-letter codes and indicator
to a slug, and percent-encode every path segment, so tool arguments
cannot carry dot segments or query and fragment delimiters into the
request path. Name the logger after the module so package-level logging
configuration reaches it.

Update the README notes and tool.specs.json to match, and extend the
tests to cover the HTTPS rule, the rejected path segments and the
refused-address path.
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