From ea705e35a21439bd94d1ea43baaaa0a4c48a723c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lorenzejay <lorenzejaytech@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 14:19:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] linted

---
 lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/anthropic/completion.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/anthropic/completion.py b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/anthropic/completion.py
index 4a6dc38d8..f1f564fd3 100644
--- a/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/anthropic/completion.py
+++ b/lib/crewai/src/crewai/llms/providers/anthropic/completion.py
@@ -555,7 +555,8 @@ class AnthropicCompletion(BaseLLM):
             Updated tools list with tool search tool prepended and
             regular tools marked as deferred.
         """
-        assert self.tool_search is not None # type
+        if self.tool_search is None:
+            return tools
 
         # Check if a tool search tool is already present (user passed one manually)
         has_search_tool = any(