Bug: web search fallback has no error handling — hangs silently in sandboxed environments

[Augustas11]

Problem

The Wikipedia API fallback embedded in the prompt is a single-line call with no exception handling:

import urllib.request,json; data=json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(f"https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/{query}",timeout=10).read().decode()); print(data.get("extract",""))

In Docker/sandboxed environments with no outbound internet, this hangs for the full 10-second timeout. The agent may then give up or write a wrong answer. The failure is silent — nothing in the logs indicates a network issue caused the error.

Fix

Wrap in try/except in the prompt instruction:

try:
    import urllib.request, json
    data = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=5).read().decode())
    print(data.get("extract", "Not found"))
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Web lookup failed: {e}. Proceed without external data.")

Impact

Medium — only affects questions requiring external definitions, but causes silent hangs in the standard Docker benchmark setup.