feat(web-search): add Serply as a web search engine provider

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Description

Adds Serply as a web search engine provider, alongside the existing keyed providers (Tavily, Brave, Jina, Bocha, UniFuncs). Serply is a Google SERP API: GET https://api.serply.io/v1/search?q=...&num=... with an X-Api-Key header, returning results[] with title, link and description. API docs: https://serply.io/docs

Discussed in #496. Disclosure: I work with Serply.

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Refactoring (no functional changes, no api changes)
• Documentation update
• CI/CD or Build changes

Updated/Expected Behavior

Settings > Plugins > Web Search now lists a "Serply" provider with an API key field and the default endpoint https://api.serply.io/v1/search. Users who do not select Serply see no change.

To test: create a key at https://serply.io (the free tier is enough), select Serply as the web search engine, paste the key, and ask the assistant something that needs a web search. Results come back as title, link and snippet like the other providers. A wrong key surfaces as an HttpRequestException with the 401 body from the API, which is the same path the other keyed connectors take.

Implementation Details

• SerplyConnector mirrors TavilyConnector: it subclasses WebSearchClient<TResponse>, uses a JsonSerializerContext for the response type, and only overrides CreateSearchRequest. It sends a GET with q and num in the query string and the key in X-Api-Key.
• The valid count range is Range(0, 10) because Serply returns at most 10 results per request; the base class clamps larger counts.
• Rows without a link are dropped in ToResults() so TextSearchResult.Link is never empty.
• Provider wiring follows the existing pattern: one WebSearchEngineProviderId enum member, one ApiKeyWebSearchEngineProvider registration in WebSearchEngineSettings, one match arm in WebPlugin, and a serply-color.svg icon next to the other provider icons. The display name uses DirectLocaleKey("Serply"), so no localization keys are added.
• No new dependencies. The shared UserAgentHandler already stamps Everywhere/{version} on requests, so the connector adds no User-Agent handling of its own.
• Tests use an in-memory HttpMessageHandler (same shape as FileDownloadServiceTests) and cover the request shape, response mapping, the num clamp, and the non-success path. No network access.

Verification on Linux with .NET SDK 10.0.202:

$ dotnet build tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests.csproj -c Debug
    0 Error(s)
    2 Warning(s)   (both the existing OllamaSharp CS9057 analyzer warnings)

$ dotnet test tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests.csproj -c Debug --no-build --filter "FullyQualifiedName~SerplyConnector"
  Passed SearchAsync_WhenCountExceedsCap_ClampsNumToTen [23 ms]
  Passed SearchAsync_WhenUnauthorized_ThrowsWithoutLeakingTheKey [9 ms]
  Passed SearchAsync_WithResults_SendsKeyedGetAndMapsFields [3 ms]
Total tests: 3
     Passed: 3

$ dotnet test tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests.csproj -c Debug --no-build
Failed!  - Failed:     1, Passed:   453, Skipped:     1, Total:   455

The one failure, SkillSourceTests.RootWatcher_DebouncesAndAggregatesSkillMarkdownChanges, fails the same way on a clean main checkout in this environment (a file-watcher timing test under WSL) and is unrelated to this change.

Screenshots / Recordings

Built and tested headless on Linux, so no desktop screenshot from me. The settings entry reuses the existing ApiKeyWebSearchEngineProvider UI with the new name, icon and docs link.

Checklist

• My code follows the code style of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have added XML documentation to any related classes

Breaking Changes

None.

Obsoletions / Deprecations

None.

Fixed Issues

Fixes #496

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added Serply as a supported web-search provider.
  • Added web search through the Serply Google SERP API, including query parameters, result limits, and result descriptions.
  • Added handling for unauthorized search requests without exposing API keys.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for Serply searches, result mapping, request limits, missing links, and authorization errors.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request adds Serply as an API-key web search provider, implements its HTTP connector, wires it into WebPlugin, and adds connector tests.

Changes

Serply web search provider

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider configuration src/Everywhere.Core/Configuration/Settings/WebSearchEnginePluginSettings.cs	Adds the Serply provider identifier and registers its API-key configuration, icon, documentation URL, locale key, and endpoint.
Serply connector and validation src/Everywhere.Core/Web/WebSearchConnectors/SerplyConnector.cs, tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests/Web/SerplyConnectorTests.cs	Adds keyed GET requests, result-count clamping, JSON result mapping, missing-link filtering, unauthorized-response handling, and tests for these behaviors.
Plugin connector wiring src/Everywhere.Core/Chat/Plugins/BuiltIn/WebPlugin.cs	Creates SerplyConnector instances when the configured provider is WebSearchEngineProviderId.Serply.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WebPlugin
  participant SerplyConnector
  participant HttpClient
  participant SerplyAPI
  WebPlugin->>SerplyConnector: Create with API key and endpoint
  SerplyConnector->>HttpClient: Send GET with q, num, and X-Api-Key
  HttpClient->>SerplyAPI: Request search results
  SerplyAPI-->>HttpClient: Return JSON results
  HttpClient-->>SerplyConnector: Return HTTP response
  SerplyConnector-->>WebPlugin: Return mapped TextSearchResult entries

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Suggested reviewers: dearva

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1c4fd

Serply works safely with its default endpoint, but selecting a custom HTTP endpoint can expose the API key. Restrict Serply requests to HTTPS before merge or explicitly accept this bounded configuration risk.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding Serply as a web-search provider.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The pull request satisfies the coding requirements in issue #496. It adds the Serply provider ID, settings registration, default endpoint, plugin wiring, connector, API-key request, URL-encoded quer…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reported changes stay within issue #496. They add the Serply provider integration, its registration and icon, focused connector tests, and required error handling. No unrelated feature, dependency…

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests/Web/SerplyConnectorTests.cs (1)

14-14: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use var for the captured request variables.

The repository guideline applies to all C# local variable declarations. The checked-in analyzer settings do not define an exception for nullable HttpRequestMessage locals. Replace both declarations with:

-        HttpRequestMessage? captured = null;
+        var captured = default(HttpRequestMessage?);

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In `@tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests/Web/SerplyConnectorTests.cs` at line 14, Update
the captured request local declarations in the SerplyConnector tests to use var,
including the nullable HttpRequestMessage variable and its corresponding
captured request variable, while preserving their existing initialization and
nullability behavior.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/Everywhere.Core/Chat/Plugins/BuiltIn/WebPlugin.cs`:
- Line 99: Update the SerplyConnector construction in the plugin registration so
Serply API-key requests reject non-HTTPS endpoints before sending X-Api-Key.
Apply the validation specifically to serply.ActualEndPoint, while preserving
support for HTTPS endpoints and leaving shared provider validators unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/Everywhere.Core.Tests/Web/SerplyConnectorTests.cs`:
- Line 14: Update the captured request local declarations in the SerplyConnector
tests to use var, including the nullable HttpRequestMessage variable and its
corresponding captured request variable, while preserving their existing
initialization and nullability behavior.

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Re the CodeRabbit nitpick on HttpRequestMessage? captured = null; in the tests: I kept the explicit type because that is the form the existing tests use for nullable locals (for example ChatMessageNode? earliestNode = null; in ChatTextSearchViewModelTests and PromptNode? optional = null; in PromptDocumentTests). Happy to switch to var captured = default(HttpRequestMessage?); if a maintainer prefers it.