Is it possible to disable some of the tools (search_tool) either for single project or globally?

[aa956]

How to disable search_tool and enable bash find, grep - these were more reliable for Python projects?
May be per project, may be global switch.

For some Python projects I'm getting a lot of retries using search_tool where pattern is a filename.

Looks like model does not understand search tool is not working for finding filename like "some_module", retries with "some_module\.py" and finds nothing too.

Model then tries various variants of ls but as code is under ./src/module/some-more/subdirectories it's not found, then sometimes tries search_tool with pattern of content only like "class SomeModule" - this works.

Usually ends with model running ls -R on entire project, or tries to run some quick Python script with bash tool like python -c 'from pathlib import Path; print(list(Path(".").rglob("*.[pP][yY]")))'.

So not critical as sooner or later model finds a way to run the search or find the file.

All of that with Qwen 3.6 27B at IQ4_KS.

[mlhher]

I will need to evaluate these new additions thoroughly. It is similar from the researcher the ideas seem great but these smaller local models seem to have issue with them.

Maybe it is time to go for a plugin system.

Note that you should be able to disable the search tool using the config.json for now:

    "enabled_tools": {
      "search_tool": false
    }

Will need to see how to evaluate these long-term this is also the reason the PR for the researcher subagent is still open.