Merge computer-use into the agents extra and use Perplexity in the README

- Fold the computer-use extra into agents. ComputerUse needs openai-agents
  anyway, so a separate extra only made people install two things to get one
  feature. agents now carries hyperbrowser as well.
- The README bot example now researches with
  GeneralLlm(model="perplexity/sonar-pro"), which takes a prompt. The
  previous AskNewsSearcher call was wrong for this example: its methods take
  a search query, not a composed research prompt.

Verified a new bot maker's path end to end against a wheel installed into a
clean venv outside the repo: `import forecasting_tools` pulls in none of the
optional packages, the README example subclass defines and instantiates, every
name the README references imports, gated names raise with an install command,
and hasattr degrades to False. Installing [agents] then unlocks ComputerUse
and the rest while front-end stays gated.

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

Author: CodexVeritas

README.md

@@ -158,7 +158,6 @@ from forecasting_tools import (
     ReasonedPrediction,
     PredictedOptionList,
     NumericDistribution,
-    AskNewsSearcher,
     MetaculusClient,
     GeneralLlm,
     PredictionExtractor,
@@ -168,7 +167,7 @@ from forecasting_tools.util.misc import clean_indents
 class MyCustomBot(TemplateBot):
 
     async def run_research(self, question: MetaculusQuestion) -> str:
-        searcher = AskNewsSearcher()
+        searcher = GeneralLlm(model="perplexity/sonar-pro", temperature=0)
 
         prompt = clean_indents(
             f"""
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ class MyCustomBot(TemplateBot):
             """
         )
 
-        report = await searcher.get_formatted_news_async(prompt)
+        report = await searcher.invoke(prompt)
         return report
 
     async def _run_forecast_on_binary(
@@ -511,14 +510,13 @@ Some features need heavier dependencies that a bot does not, so they are opt-in.
 
 | Extra | You need it for |
 | --- | --- |
-| `agents` | Anything built on the agent SDK: `QuestionDecomposer`, `QuestionOperationalizer`, `TopicGenerator`, `DataAnalyzer`, `Benchmarker`, `BenchmarkForBot`, `BotOptimizer`, `CustomizableBot`, and the AI Congress tools |
+| `agents` | Anything built on the agent SDK: `QuestionDecomposer`, `QuestionOperationalizer`, `TopicGenerator`, `DataAnalyzer`, `Benchmarker`, `BenchmarkForBot`, `BotOptimizer`, `CustomizableBot`, `ComputerUse` (browser-driving agent), and the AI Congress tools |
 | `front-end` | The Streamlit app in `forecasting_tools/front_end/` and `run_benchmark_streamlit_page` |
-| `computer-use` | `ComputerUse` (browser-driving agent) |
 | `all` | Everything above |
 
 ```bash
 pip install 'forecasting-tools[agents]'
-pip install 'forecasting-tools[front-end,computer-use]'
+pip install 'forecasting-tools[agents,front-end]'
 pip install 'forecasting-tools[all]'
 ```
 

code_tests/unit_tests/test_optional_imports.py

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def test_gated_names_say_which_extra_to_install() -> None:
     "BotOptimizer": "agents",
     "DataAnalyzer": "agents",
     "QuestionDecomposer": "agents",
-    "ComputerUse": "computer-use",
+    "ComputerUse": "agents",
     "run_benchmark_streamlit_page": "front-end",
 }
 for name, extra in extra_for_name.items():

forecasting_tools/agents_and_tools/research/computer_use.py

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 from forecasting_tools.util.misc import clean_indents
 from forecasting_tools.util.optional_imports import require_optional_package
 
-require_optional_package("hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser", "computer-use")
-require_optional_package("agents", "openai-agents", "computer-use")
+require_optional_package("hyperbrowser", "hyperbrowser", "agents")
+require_optional_package("agents", "openai-agents", "agents")
 
 from hyperbrowser import AsyncHyperbrowser  # noqa: E402
 from hyperbrowser.models import (  # noqa: E402

poetry.lock

@@ -70,8 +70,7 @@ cloakbrowser = {version = ">=0.3.31,<0.4.0", optional = true}
 source-archive = ["boto3", "playwright", "firecrawl-py", "trafilatura", "pymupdf4llm", "cloakbrowser", "hyperbrowser"]
 # The template bot and the bot running infrastructure need none of the below, so
 # they are opt-in and the base install stays small. See "Optional extras" in the README.
-agents = ["openai-agents"]
-computer-use = ["hyperbrowser", "openai-agents"]
+agents = ["openai-agents", "hyperbrowser"]
 front-end = ["streamlit", "openai-agents"]
 all = ["openai-agents", "hyperbrowser", "streamlit", "boto3", "playwright", "firecrawl-py", "trafilatura", "pymupdf4llm", "cloakbrowser"]