From cb4a06ce5cf2f2fa1f88c799a46bb2bf6b089f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akhil <133588800+Akhil373@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:30:12 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: surface readable error messages in web-scraping agent
 and ai-provider (#5476)

* fix: surface readable error messages in web-scraping agent and ai-provider

* simplify

---------

Co-authored-by: Timothy Carambat <rambat1010@gmail.com>
---
 server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-scraping.js  | 7 ++++---
 server/utils/agents/aibitat/providers/ai-provider.js | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-scraping.js b/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-scraping.js
index bc5f66cc..ad35ce86 100644
--- a/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-scraping.js
+++ b/server/utils/agents/aibitat/plugins/web-scraping.js
@@ -49,13 +49,14 @@ const webScraping = {
               if (url) return await this.scrape(url);
               return "There is nothing we can do. This function call returns no information.";
             } catch (error) {
+              const errorMessage = error?.message ?? JSON.stringify(error);
               this.super.handlerProps.log(
-                `Web Scraping Error: ${error.message}`
+                `Web Scraping Error: ${errorMessage}`
               );
               this.super.introspect(
-                `${this.caller}: Web Scraping Error: ${error.message}`
+                `${this.caller}: Web Scraping Error: ${errorMessage}`
               );
-              return `There was an error while calling the function. No data or response was found. Let the user know this was the error: ${error.message}`;
+              return `There was an error while calling the function. No data or response was found. Let the user know this was the error: ${errorMessage}`;
             }
           },
 
diff --git a/server/utils/agents/aibitat/providers/ai-provider.js b/server/utils/agents/aibitat/providers/ai-provider.js
index ea8dc2b0..2a51bb16 100644
--- a/server/utils/agents/aibitat/providers/ai-provider.js
+++ b/server/utils/agents/aibitat/providers/ai-provider.js
@@ -406,7 +406,9 @@ class Provider {
           ...config,
         });
       default:
-        throw new Error(`Unsupported provider ${provider} for this task.`);
+        throw new Error(
+          `Unsupported provider ${JSON.stringify(provider)} for this task.`
+        );
     }
   }